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Originally Posted by elnwood  Congregationalism (Savoy Declaration, New England Puritans, Baptists) is the belief that the ultimate authority lies with the congregation. Congregationalists emphasize the church as a community of believers who covenant together. |
A question; John Owen was involved with the Savoy Declaration, but was Owen's view of church goverment not more leaning towards presbyterianism, in that sense that the untimate authority lies with the elders ?
This confuses me, because i read that John Owen became a congregatiolist or independed (who also wrote the Savoy Declaration, were ultimate authority lies with the congregation), while others said his indepency leans towards weak presbyterianism ?