Greene traces the roots of New England Congregationalism back to the Separatists Browne and Barrowe, then follows its transplanting to Connecticut and the close union of church and state there. The Cambridge Platform, the Half-Way Covenant, the Saybrook Platform, the New Light controversies and the long struggle of dissenters for toleration lead to final disestablishment.
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