{"id":17185,"date":"2025-02-27T15:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T21:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/?p=17185"},"modified":"2025-02-28T10:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T16:51:07","slug":"books-on-congregationalism-and-the-congregational-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/books-on-congregationalism-and-the-congregational-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Books on Congregationalism and the Congregational Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1185.6px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>The following books are pieces of Congregational history and remain important resources for learning about Congregationalism today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/the_art_and_practice_of_the_congregational_way_v8.2_booklet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Art and Practice of the Congregational Way: A Church Guide<\/a> by Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Mauro<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Congregational-Christian-Way-of-Inter-Church-Fellowship-by-A.-Vaughan-Abercrombie.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Congregational Christian Way of Inter-Church Fellowship<\/a> by A. Vaughan Abercrombie<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/How-to-Gather-a-Congregational-Christian-Church-by-A.-Vaughan-Abercrombie.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Gather a Congregational Christian Church<\/a> by A. Vaughan Abercrombie<\/p>\n<p>The Covenant of Grace in Puritan Thought by John von Rohr<\/p>\n<p>The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism by Dr. Williston Walker<\/p>\n<p>To view and read more books on Congregational history and polity, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?uid=108918705277296518910&amp;as_coll=1001&amp;source=gbs_lp_bookshelf_list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congregational History and Polity section<\/a> of this Google Library.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congregationalism","category-material-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17185"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17208,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17185\/revisions\/17208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}