The Evangelical Alliance in the 1840s: An Attempt to Institutionalise Christian Unity
in 1844 Baptist Wriothesley Noel, minister of the Anglican proprietary chapel of St. John’s Bedford Row since 1827, published a book of verse, with a piece on ‘Schism’ containing the following stanzas: For man-made discipline let bigots fightCanons and rules old fathers have approved;By us may those...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1986
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Studies in church history
Year: 1986, Volume: 23, Pages: 333-346 |
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| Summary: | in 1844 Baptist Wriothesley Noel, minister of the Anglican proprietary chapel of St. John’s Bedford Row since 1827, published a book of verse, with a piece on ‘Schism’ containing the following stanzas: For man-made discipline let bigots fightCanons and rules old fathers have approved;By us may those whose faith and life are right,Be owned as brothers and as brothers loved.All true believers are the ransomed church,Children of God by Jesus owned and loved;And in the day when God the heart shall searchWill they who part them be schismatics proved.In the 1820s Noel had been an enthusiastic sympathiser with the pan-evangelicalism then prevalent in London and had remained loyal to these views during the period of stormier relations between Church and Dissent in the 1830s. In the slightly calmer waters of the 1840s Noel’s sentiments again came to represent the views of a small number of Anglican Evangelicals and a rather larger proportion of moderate Dissenters whose efforts to promote Christian unity were to culminate in the formation of the Evangelical Alliance in 1846. |
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| ISSN: | 2059-0644 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0424208400010688 |
