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This 3-page paper provides an overview and discussion about the United Church of Christ. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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its beliefs and the relationship between Jesus Christ, mankind and God (and the Gospels). One of younger churches coming out of those reforms, which is a combination of other splinter
churches, is the United Church of Christ, or UCC. UCC is considered part of the "Reformed" tradition, a tradition popular with the Puritans when they first came to the United
States. These days, the UCC has just under 6,000 congregations with more than one million members, primarily who reside in the United States
Though the UCC itself was founded in 1957, according to the organizations website, its origins reach as far back as the Christian reformations of the 16th and 17th
centuries, led by Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin (Post). Though the bases of their philsophies differed somewhat, they were similar in that they stated that the Bible, not
the Pope in Rome, was the true word of God (Post). The UCC was an outgrowth of the Luthern and Reformed churches, and was a combination of four groups: the
Congregational Churches of the English Reformation; the Christian Church of America; the Evangelical Synod of North America and the Reformed Church in the United States (Post). According to the UCC
website, th Evangelical, Reformed and Congregational Christian churches came with European ties, roots from colonial ties and "the vitality of the Amerian frontier church" (Post). The concern here involved Biblical
authority and what unites Christians, other than what divides them (Post). Interestingly enough, the movements behind the UCC - the Evangelical and Reformed
Church and the Congregational Christian Churches, were also fairly young when combined into the United Church of Christ - the former was 23 years old and the latter 26 years
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