Portrait of a Nonconformist: Charles Silvester Horne (1865-1914)
Congregationalists are properly wary of the cult of the minister. They have nonetheless produced ministers who merit commemoration, even celebration. Charles Silvester Horne (1865-1914) was one such. As pastor, preacher, public figure, popular writer, and whole-hearted human being, he caught the ima...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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NACCC
[2020]
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International congregational journal
Year: 2020, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-82 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KDD Protestant Church RB Church office; congregation |
| Further subjects: | B
Anniversaries
B Dissenters B Wales B England B Portraits B Cults B Human Beings |
| Summary: | Congregationalists are properly wary of the cult of the minister. They have nonetheless produced ministers who merit commemoration, even celebration. Charles Silvester Horne (1865-1914) was one such. As pastor, preacher, public figure, popular writer, and whole-hearted human being, he caught the imagination of his contemporaries. They saw him as an ideally representative Congregationalist. So might we. It would be easy to see a man who so expressed his age as a period piece but there was much more to him than that and this account seeks to do justice to a many-faceted man. It sets him in context. It considers his pastoral impact and his grasp of a social gospel. It sees how all came together in his addresses as Chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in 1910 - the year in which he was elected to Parliament: the first minister in pastoral charge to be an M.P. since Cromwellian times - or so he liked to reflect. And had he lived ...?. |
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| ISSN: | 1472-2089 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International congregational journal
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