“中途契约(Ｈａｌｆ-ＷａｙＣｏｖｅｎａｎｔ)”是17世纪移民到新英格兰的清教徒为第二代移民及非清教徒加入教会所制订的原则标准。关于“中途契约”,国内几乎没有人对之进行系统性的涉及,而国外虽有学者进行过研究,但他们的研究或者不系统或者忽略了它在美国历史中所起的作 The Half-Way Covenant is a set of principles set by the Protestants who emigrated to New England in the 17th century for the second generation of immigrants and non-Puritan members to join the church. As for the “Midway Contract”, almost no one in the country systematically involved them. Although some scholars abroad conducted their research, their research did not systematically or neglected its role in the history of the United States