{"id":52801,"date":"2022-09-28T21:04:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T02:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/half-way-covenant\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T21:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T02:04:25","slug":"half-way-covenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/half-way-covenant\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-way Covenant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Half-way Covenant<\/h2>\n<p>a scheme adopted by the Congregational churches of New England in order to extend the privileges of church membership and infant baptism beyond the pale of actual communicants at the Lord&#8217;s table. Stoddard, of Northampton, vindicated it, and Jonathan Edwards opposed it. This struggle caused Edwards&#8217;s removal from Northampton. It is now abandoned by the orthodox Congregationalists.  Hurst, Rationalism, p. 538; Upham, Ratio Disciplinae, 21. SEE CONGREGATIONALISTS; SEE EDWARDS, JONATHAN.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half-way Covenant a scheme adopted by the Congregational churches of New England in order to extend the privileges of church membership and infant baptism beyond the pale of actual communicants at the Lord&#8217;s table. Stoddard, of Northampton, vindicated it, and Jonathan Edwards opposed it. This struggle caused Edwards&#8217;s removal from Northampton. It is now abandoned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/half-way-covenant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Half-way Covenant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}