David Albert Jones
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199213009
- eISBN:
- 9780191707179
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199213009.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This chapter examines the role of the clergy in pastoral care in their parishes. It considers the expectations of the Church's Canons and the bishops. It considers the evidence for parochial ...
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This chapter examines the role of the clergy in pastoral care in their parishes. It considers the expectations of the Church's Canons and the bishops. It considers the evidence for parochial visiting, care for the sick and the dying, including drawing up people's wills, and the administration of charity. It also explores their role as chair of the parish vestry, and in the administration and reform of the Poor Law. It investigates their role in the moral oversight of the residents of their parish; the part religious societies played in improving the spiritual and moral lives of parishioners, and their role as a reconciler in their parish; the significance of the appointment of many clergy as justices of the peace in the later 18th century; and the impact of this on their role.Less
This chapter examines the role of the clergy in pastoral care in their parishes. It considers the expectations of the Church's Canons and the bishops. It considers the evidence for parochial visiting, care for the sick and the dying, including drawing up people's wills, and the administration of charity. It also explores their role as chair of the parish vestry, and in the administration and reform of the Poor Law. It investigates their role in the moral oversight of the residents of their parish; the part religious societies played in improving the spiritual and moral lives of parishioners, and their role as a reconciler in their parish; the significance of the appointment of many clergy as justices of the peace in the later 18th century; and the impact of this on their role.
Christopher P. Scheitle
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199733521
- eISBN:
- 9780199866281
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199733521.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter argues that Christian nonprofits are not the first examples of parachurch organizations in the United States. The history of parachurch organizations is traced from 19th-century ...
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This chapter argues that Christian nonprofits are not the first examples of parachurch organizations in the United States. The history of parachurch organizations is traced from 19th-century religious societies to contemporary 501(c)(3) public charities. It is argued that the decline of Bible, tract, Sunday School, and moral societies is at least partly due to the rise of denominational agencies. The rise of contemporary Christian nonprofits is, in turn, due to significant changes in denominational boundaries and identities.Less
This chapter argues that Christian nonprofits are not the first examples of parachurch organizations in the United States. The history of parachurch organizations is traced from 19th-century religious societies to contemporary 501(c)(3) public charities. It is argued that the decline of Bible, tract, Sunday School, and moral societies is at least partly due to the rise of denominational agencies. The rise of contemporary Christian nonprofits is, in turn, due to significant changes in denominational boundaries and identities.
Alan Harding
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780198263692
- eISBN:
- 9780191601149
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198263694.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
The chapter shows how itinerant preaching served to extend and nurture the work of the Connexion, where the initiative came from in opening new areas of work, how itinerancy was organised (including ...
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The chapter shows how itinerant preaching served to extend and nurture the work of the Connexion, where the initiative came from in opening new areas of work, how itinerancy was organised (including Lady Huntingdon’s personal role in this), and the source of funds for building chapels and running the Connexion. All the main reformed denominations were represented within the Connexion’s congregations; socially they appear to have consisted principally of artisans and small tradesmen. Ministry was supplied by students of Lady Huntingdon’s college, by Anglican clergymen, and occasionally by other established preachers. Other aspects of the Connexion discussed in this chapter include: instances of violent opposition; growing pressure for ministers to settle with congregations; sources of authority within congregations; the development of religious societies within the Connexion; pressures for regular Communion services; the use of the Anglican Prayer Book; the development of the Connexion’s own hymn book; the religious instruction of children; and the number, size, and catchment areas of congregations.Less
The chapter shows how itinerant preaching served to extend and nurture the work of the Connexion, where the initiative came from in opening new areas of work, how itinerancy was organised (including Lady Huntingdon’s personal role in this), and the source of funds for building chapels and running the Connexion. All the main reformed denominations were represented within the Connexion’s congregations; socially they appear to have consisted principally of artisans and small tradesmen. Ministry was supplied by students of Lady Huntingdon’s college, by Anglican clergymen, and occasionally by other established preachers. Other aspects of the Connexion discussed in this chapter include: instances of violent opposition; growing pressure for ministers to settle with congregations; sources of authority within congregations; the development of religious societies within the Connexion; pressures for regular Communion services; the use of the Anglican Prayer Book; the development of the Connexion’s own hymn book; the religious instruction of children; and the number, size, and catchment areas of congregations.
Geoffrey Cantor
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199596676
- eISBN:
- 9780191725685
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199596676.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History, Religion and Society
New research challenges the standard portrayal of the Great Exhibition as a manifestly secular event confined to celebrating the success of science, technology, and manufacturing. This innovative ...
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New research challenges the standard portrayal of the Great Exhibition as a manifestly secular event confined to celebrating the success of science, technology, and manufacturing. This innovative reappraisal demonstrates that the Exhibition was widely understood by contemporaries to possess a religious dimension and generated controversy among religious groups. To popular acclaim Prince Albert bestowed legitimacy on the Exhibition by proclaiming it to be a display of divine providence. Others, however, interpreted the Exhibition as a sign of the coming Apocalypse. With anti-Catholic feeling running high following the recent ‘papal aggression’, many Protestants roundly condemned those exhibits associated with Catholicism and some even denounced the Exhibition as a Papist plot. Catholics, for their part, criticized the Exhibition as a further example of religious repression, as did many secularists. Jews generally welcomed the Exhibition, as did Unitarians, Quakers, Congregationalists, and a wide spectrum of Anglicans—but all for different reasons. This diversity of perception is explored through such sources as contemporary sermons and, most importantly, the highly differentiated religious press. Several religious organizations energetically rose to the occasion, including the Religious Tract Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society, both of which mounted displays inside the Crystal Palace. Such evangelicals considered the Exhibition to be a divinely ordained opportunity to make converts, especially among ‘heathens’ and foreigners. To accomplish this task they initiated a range of dedicated activities including the distribution of countless tracts, printing Bibles in several languages, and holding special services. Taken all together these religious responses to the Exhibition shed fresh light on a crucial mid‐century event.Less
New research challenges the standard portrayal of the Great Exhibition as a manifestly secular event confined to celebrating the success of science, technology, and manufacturing. This innovative reappraisal demonstrates that the Exhibition was widely understood by contemporaries to possess a religious dimension and generated controversy among religious groups. To popular acclaim Prince Albert bestowed legitimacy on the Exhibition by proclaiming it to be a display of divine providence. Others, however, interpreted the Exhibition as a sign of the coming Apocalypse. With anti-Catholic feeling running high following the recent ‘papal aggression’, many Protestants roundly condemned those exhibits associated with Catholicism and some even denounced the Exhibition as a Papist plot. Catholics, for their part, criticized the Exhibition as a further example of religious repression, as did many secularists. Jews generally welcomed the Exhibition, as did Unitarians, Quakers, Congregationalists, and a wide spectrum of Anglicans—but all for different reasons. This diversity of perception is explored through such sources as contemporary sermons and, most importantly, the highly differentiated religious press. Several religious organizations energetically rose to the occasion, including the Religious Tract Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society, both of which mounted displays inside the Crystal Palace. Such evangelicals considered the Exhibition to be a divinely ordained opportunity to make converts, especially among ‘heathens’ and foreigners. To accomplish this task they initiated a range of dedicated activities including the distribution of countless tracts, printing Bibles in several languages, and holding special services. Taken all together these religious responses to the Exhibition shed fresh light on a crucial mid‐century event.
Geoffrey Cantor
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199596676
- eISBN:
- 9780191725685
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199596676.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History, Religion and Society
This chapter charts the immense efforts made by several religious organizations, including missionary societies, to engage with the large numbers of visitors expected in London, Their activities ...
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This chapter charts the immense efforts made by several religious organizations, including missionary societies, to engage with the large numbers of visitors expected in London, Their activities included additional services and lectures, the opening of book depositories close to Hyde Park, the preparation of tracts, some of which were published in several languages, and the hiring of extra missionaries and colporteurs to distribute tracts. Special evangelical services were held at Exeter Hall attracting audiences of 3‐4000. While the Bishop of London laid plans to welcome visiting Anglicans to the metropolis, the main evangelical organizations went into top gear with the intention of saving souls. This chapter also examines how the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Religious Tract Society managed to obtain space inside the Crystal Palace, but only after much controversy.Less
This chapter charts the immense efforts made by several religious organizations, including missionary societies, to engage with the large numbers of visitors expected in London, Their activities included additional services and lectures, the opening of book depositories close to Hyde Park, the preparation of tracts, some of which were published in several languages, and the hiring of extra missionaries and colporteurs to distribute tracts. Special evangelical services were held at Exeter Hall attracting audiences of 3‐4000. While the Bishop of London laid plans to welcome visiting Anglicans to the metropolis, the main evangelical organizations went into top gear with the intention of saving souls. This chapter also examines how the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Religious Tract Society managed to obtain space inside the Crystal Palace, but only after much controversy.
Joseph McAleer
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203292
- eISBN:
- 9780191675843
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203292.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
D. C. Thomson and the Religious Tract Society had much in common. Both firms enjoyed immediate success as publishers of popular magazines. In the field of boys' papers they were rivals to some ...
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D. C. Thomson and the Religious Tract Society had much in common. Both firms enjoyed immediate success as publishers of popular magazines. In the field of boys' papers they were rivals to some extent; in fact, the Boy's Own Paper established the modern market for this schoolboy genre, just as the Girl's Own Paper did for the schoolgirl and, partly, for women in general. The decline of the once-mighty Religious Tract Society is the other side of the success of Mills & Boon and D. C. Thomson. An examination of its history provides an insight into the types of problems which beset all publishers of popular fiction during this period, but through the experience of one which, unlike Mills & Boon or D. C. Thomson, was not able to overcome them. It is also a witness to the ultimate failure of the lofty aims of one of the first Victorian reformers of the popular press.Less
D. C. Thomson and the Religious Tract Society had much in common. Both firms enjoyed immediate success as publishers of popular magazines. In the field of boys' papers they were rivals to some extent; in fact, the Boy's Own Paper established the modern market for this schoolboy genre, just as the Girl's Own Paper did for the schoolgirl and, partly, for women in general. The decline of the once-mighty Religious Tract Society is the other side of the success of Mills & Boon and D. C. Thomson. An examination of its history provides an insight into the types of problems which beset all publishers of popular fiction during this period, but through the experience of one which, unlike Mills & Boon or D. C. Thomson, was not able to overcome them. It is also a witness to the ultimate failure of the lofty aims of one of the first Victorian reformers of the popular press.
Brent S. Sirota
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780300167108
- eISBN:
- 9780300199277
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300167108.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society ...
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This book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlining the Church of England’s key role in the increase of voluntary, charitable, and religious societies, the book examines how these groups drove the modernization of Britain through such activities as settling immigrants throughout the empire, founding charity schools, distributing devotional literature, and evangelizing and educating merchants, seamen, and slaves throughout the British empire — all leading to what has been termed the “age of benevolence”.Less
This book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlining the Church of England’s key role in the increase of voluntary, charitable, and religious societies, the book examines how these groups drove the modernization of Britain through such activities as settling immigrants throughout the empire, founding charity schools, distributing devotional literature, and evangelizing and educating merchants, seamen, and slaves throughout the British empire — all leading to what has been termed the “age of benevolence”.
Joseph McAleer
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203292
- eISBN:
- 9780191675843
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203292.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Before the advent of television, reading was among the most popular of leisure activities. ‘Light’ fiction — romances, thrillers, westerns — was the sustenance of millions in wartime and in peace. ...
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Before the advent of television, reading was among the most popular of leisure activities. ‘Light’ fiction — romances, thrillers, westerns — was the sustenance of millions in wartime and in peace. This study examines the size and complexion of the reading public and the development of an increasingly commercialised publishing industry in the early 20th century. The book uses a variety of sources, including the Mass Observation Archive and previously confidential publishers' records, to explore the nature of popular fiction and its readers. It analyses the editorial policies that created the success of Mills & Boon and D. C. Thomson, and also charts the rise and fall of the Religious Tract Society as a popular publisher.Less
Before the advent of television, reading was among the most popular of leisure activities. ‘Light’ fiction — romances, thrillers, westerns — was the sustenance of millions in wartime and in peace. This study examines the size and complexion of the reading public and the development of an increasingly commercialised publishing industry in the early 20th century. The book uses a variety of sources, including the Mass Observation Archive and previously confidential publishers' records, to explore the nature of popular fiction and its readers. It analyses the editorial policies that created the success of Mills & Boon and D. C. Thomson, and also charts the rise and fall of the Religious Tract Society as a popular publisher.
Lionel Laborie
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719089886
- eISBN:
- 9781526104007
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719089886.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter examines the formation, spread, social composition and inner workings of the French Prophets as a movement. Based on extensive prosopographical research, it argues that the Camisards did ...
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This chapter examines the formation, spread, social composition and inner workings of the French Prophets as a movement. Based on extensive prosopographical research, it argues that the Camisards did not appeal to isolated individuals, but rather to pre-existing networks of diplomats, merchants, lawyers, ministers, physicians and intellectuals. It demonstrates on this basis how the Camisards capitalised on a vibrant millenarian culture upon their arrival and that beliefs in prophecy and miracles survived among all levels of the social ladder well beyond 1700. This new insight into the religious landscape of early eighteenth-century England suggests that enthusiasm transcended religious and social boundaries and therefore that it ought to be distinguished from both radical dissent and what historians call ‘popular religion’.Less
This chapter examines the formation, spread, social composition and inner workings of the French Prophets as a movement. Based on extensive prosopographical research, it argues that the Camisards did not appeal to isolated individuals, but rather to pre-existing networks of diplomats, merchants, lawyers, ministers, physicians and intellectuals. It demonstrates on this basis how the Camisards capitalised on a vibrant millenarian culture upon their arrival and that beliefs in prophecy and miracles survived among all levels of the social ladder well beyond 1700. This new insight into the religious landscape of early eighteenth-century England suggests that enthusiasm transcended religious and social boundaries and therefore that it ought to be distinguished from both radical dissent and what historians call ‘popular religion’.
Graham Neville
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198269779
- eISBN:
- 9780191683794
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269779.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This chapter discusses the next period of Hicks's ministry which focused attention on another and equally important aspect of the Church of England's concern with education: its response to the ...
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This chapter discusses the next period of Hicks's ministry which focused attention on another and equally important aspect of the Church of England's concern with education: its response to the foundation of new universities. It observes that it was asserted that in some localities that the new universities were opposed to religious education; or that there was no concern about residential accommodation; or that their clientele was entirely local. It notes that the role of the Student Christian Movement was given great importance. It emphasizes that Hicks's experience supplied a corrective for Manchester. The chapter further notes that Owens College was founded by men of religious conviction and it made provisions for religious education, residential hostels were set up, and some students came from a distance, perhaps largely for the sake of medical training. It then states that Hicks's log book about Hulme Hall mentions no religious society among the students.Less
This chapter discusses the next period of Hicks's ministry which focused attention on another and equally important aspect of the Church of England's concern with education: its response to the foundation of new universities. It observes that it was asserted that in some localities that the new universities were opposed to religious education; or that there was no concern about residential accommodation; or that their clientele was entirely local. It notes that the role of the Student Christian Movement was given great importance. It emphasizes that Hicks's experience supplied a corrective for Manchester. The chapter further notes that Owens College was founded by men of religious conviction and it made provisions for religious education, residential hostels were set up, and some students came from a distance, perhaps largely for the sake of medical training. It then states that Hicks's log book about Hulme Hall mentions no religious society among the students.
P. R. Ackroyd and G. N. Stanton
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780192132543
- eISBN:
- 9780191670053
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192132543.003.0012
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter focuses on the modern study of Old Testament theology. The biblical theology movement attempted to draw together elements from both Old and New Testaments so as to make a coherent ...
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This chapter focuses on the modern study of Old Testament theology. The biblical theology movement attempted to draw together elements from both Old and New Testaments so as to make a coherent theology which would result in one presentation able to embrace the whole Christian Bible. Another approach during the 1950s and 1960s focused upon some particular theme which was regarded as able to give a coherent and unifying structure to the whole body of material. The discussion in this chapter revolves around the affirmation of the Old Testament about God and his nature; the concern of the Old Testament for community as against merely individual values in its ordering of the world; and the critique offered in the prophets and elsewhere of a nominally religious society and the acceptance of scepticism within the tradition.Less
This chapter focuses on the modern study of Old Testament theology. The biblical theology movement attempted to draw together elements from both Old and New Testaments so as to make a coherent theology which would result in one presentation able to embrace the whole Christian Bible. Another approach during the 1950s and 1960s focused upon some particular theme which was regarded as able to give a coherent and unifying structure to the whole body of material. The discussion in this chapter revolves around the affirmation of the Old Testament about God and his nature; the concern of the Old Testament for community as against merely individual values in its ordering of the world; and the critique offered in the prophets and elsewhere of a nominally religious society and the acceptance of scepticism within the tradition.
Nadia Urbinati
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199660384
- eISBN:
- 9780191748264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199660384.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Public International Law
The chapter offers a critical evaluation of the post-secularist argument through the analysis of an empirical case that is meant to show the link between secularism or laicité and religious ...
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The chapter offers a critical evaluation of the post-secularist argument through the analysis of an empirical case that is meant to show the link between secularism or laicité and religious pluralism. The Italian case is exemplary of a constitutional democracy whose society does not have religious pluralism, but one dominant religion. It shows that in order to be consistent with the constitutional principle of equal rights a mono-religious society has the need to adopt a more secularist politics but weaker chances to produce a full liberal society.Less
The chapter offers a critical evaluation of the post-secularist argument through the analysis of an empirical case that is meant to show the link between secularism or laicité and religious pluralism. The Italian case is exemplary of a constitutional democracy whose society does not have religious pluralism, but one dominant religion. It shows that in order to be consistent with the constitutional principle of equal rights a mono-religious society has the need to adopt a more secularist politics but weaker chances to produce a full liberal society.
Aileen Fyfe
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226276472
- eISBN:
- 9780226276465
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226276465.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to ...
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Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's authors employed a full repertoire of evangelical techniques—low prices, simple language, and carefully structured narratives—to convert their readers. The application of such techniques to popular science resulted in one of the most widely available sources of information on the sciences in the Victorian era. A fascinating study of the tenuous relationship between science and religion in evangelical publishing, this book examines questions of practice and faith from a fresh perspective. Rather than highlighting works by expert men of science, the book instead considers a group of relatively undistinguished authors who used thinly veiled Christian rhetoric to educate first, but to convert as well.Less
Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's authors employed a full repertoire of evangelical techniques—low prices, simple language, and carefully structured narratives—to convert their readers. The application of such techniques to popular science resulted in one of the most widely available sources of information on the sciences in the Victorian era. A fascinating study of the tenuous relationship between science and religion in evangelical publishing, this book examines questions of practice and faith from a fresh perspective. Rather than highlighting works by expert men of science, the book instead considers a group of relatively undistinguished authors who used thinly veiled Christian rhetoric to educate first, but to convert as well.
Andrew Kloes
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- April 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190936860
- eISBN:
- 9780190936891
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190936860.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter examines how the Awakening became a modern, popular religious movement through the foundation of hundreds of new religious voluntary societies to support evangelistic initiatives. ...
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This chapter examines how the Awakening became a modern, popular religious movement through the foundation of hundreds of new religious voluntary societies to support evangelistic initiatives. Awakened Protestants throughout Germany envisioned these new organizations as the means to join with like-minded Christians in working for shared evangelistic goals. They were motivated by concern over theological rationalism within their churches, indifference toward religion in their society, and the spiritual condition of non-Christian peoples. Awakened Protestants founded four main types of extra-ecclesial organizations: voluntary societies for the distribution of Bibles and religious literature in Germany and voluntary societies for sending missionaries to non-Christian regions and Jewish communities in Europe. Their presence established a new sphere of religious activity between the individual Christian and the institutional churches. In establishing these new religious societies, awakened Protestants rationalized the task of evangelism through their creation of administrative bureaucracies to operate their religious societies.Less
This chapter examines how the Awakening became a modern, popular religious movement through the foundation of hundreds of new religious voluntary societies to support evangelistic initiatives. Awakened Protestants throughout Germany envisioned these new organizations as the means to join with like-minded Christians in working for shared evangelistic goals. They were motivated by concern over theological rationalism within their churches, indifference toward religion in their society, and the spiritual condition of non-Christian peoples. Awakened Protestants founded four main types of extra-ecclesial organizations: voluntary societies for the distribution of Bibles and religious literature in Germany and voluntary societies for sending missionaries to non-Christian regions and Jewish communities in Europe. Their presence established a new sphere of religious activity between the individual Christian and the institutional churches. In establishing these new religious societies, awakened Protestants rationalized the task of evangelism through their creation of administrative bureaucracies to operate their religious societies.
Isabel Rivers
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- August 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198269960
- eISBN:
- 9780191851209
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198269960.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature, History of Christianity
This chapter traces the beginning and development of tract publication and distribution from the later seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries, with accounts in chronological order of ...
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This chapter traces the beginning and development of tract publication and distribution from the later seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries, with accounts in chronological order of the aims, methods, membership, and publications of six societies: the Welsh Trust, an early example of nonconformists and conformists cooperating; the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, a Church of England society, the largest and most long-lasting of those analysed; the interdenominational and evangelical Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor; John Wesley’s Society for Distributing Religious Tracts among the Poor; the Unitarian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; and the Religious Tract Society.Less
This chapter traces the beginning and development of tract publication and distribution from the later seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries, with accounts in chronological order of the aims, methods, membership, and publications of six societies: the Welsh Trust, an early example of nonconformists and conformists cooperating; the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, a Church of England society, the largest and most long-lasting of those analysed; the interdenominational and evangelical Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor; John Wesley’s Society for Distributing Religious Tracts among the Poor; the Unitarian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; and the Religious Tract Society.
Kevin M. Watson
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199336364
- eISBN:
- 9780199395682
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199336364.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter describes the background of John Wesley’s distinct version of the band meeting. The deep background of the Wesleyan bands is Philipp Jakob Spener’s collegia pietatis and Anthony ...
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This chapter describes the background of John Wesley’s distinct version of the band meeting. The deep background of the Wesleyan bands is Philipp Jakob Spener’s collegia pietatis and Anthony Horneck’s Religious Societies. Spener’s influence in Continental Pietism continued when a revival among the Moravians at Herrnhut resulted in the creation of the Banden. Horneck’s influence was felt within Anglicanism when the Wesleys and other particularly earnest Anglicans gathered together at Oxford University to hold one another accountable for their pursuit of holiness. These parallel traditions were joined together when the Wesleys first encountered Moravians on their missionary trip to Georgia and subsequently formed the Fetter Lane Society in London. This chapter argues that though the tensions between these expressions of Anglican and Moravian piety were more than the Fetter Lane Society could hold, it nevertheless marked a crucial step in the development of John Wesley’s “method” of “social holiness.”Less
This chapter describes the background of John Wesley’s distinct version of the band meeting. The deep background of the Wesleyan bands is Philipp Jakob Spener’s collegia pietatis and Anthony Horneck’s Religious Societies. Spener’s influence in Continental Pietism continued when a revival among the Moravians at Herrnhut resulted in the creation of the Banden. Horneck’s influence was felt within Anglicanism when the Wesleys and other particularly earnest Anglicans gathered together at Oxford University to hold one another accountable for their pursuit of holiness. These parallel traditions were joined together when the Wesleys first encountered Moravians on their missionary trip to Georgia and subsequently formed the Fetter Lane Society in London. This chapter argues that though the tensions between these expressions of Anglican and Moravian piety were more than the Fetter Lane Society could hold, it nevertheless marked a crucial step in the development of John Wesley’s “method” of “social holiness.”
David R. Wilson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199644636
- eISBN:
- 9780191838941
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199644636.003.0024
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History, History of Christianity
This chapter examines the complex relationship between Anglicanism and Methodism. Revising the view that Methodism was an ever-separating movement, this chapter contends that the eighteenth-century ...
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This chapter examines the complex relationship between Anglicanism and Methodism. Revising the view that Methodism was an ever-separating movement, this chapter contends that the eighteenth-century Church of England was a varied body, with myriad challenges which it confronted through the maintenance of a pastoral ideal, lived out ‘on the ground’ by the parish clergy. The industrializing parish of Madeley, Shropshire (where the incumbent from 1760 to 1785 was the Revd John William Fletcher), is used as a case study. Together with Madeley, other examples of dutiful and evangelically minded clergy who utilized the experimental religion and religious irregularities often associated with Methodists or Dissenters, are surveyed. The chapter concludes that Fletcher and many evangelically minded Anglican-Methodist clergy found the Church of England sufficiently strong and flexible enough to do the work of the Church rigorously and creatively, and that Methodism could serve as a means of Anglican pastoral success.Less
This chapter examines the complex relationship between Anglicanism and Methodism. Revising the view that Methodism was an ever-separating movement, this chapter contends that the eighteenth-century Church of England was a varied body, with myriad challenges which it confronted through the maintenance of a pastoral ideal, lived out ‘on the ground’ by the parish clergy. The industrializing parish of Madeley, Shropshire (where the incumbent from 1760 to 1785 was the Revd John William Fletcher), is used as a case study. Together with Madeley, other examples of dutiful and evangelically minded clergy who utilized the experimental religion and religious irregularities often associated with Methodists or Dissenters, are surveyed. The chapter concludes that Fletcher and many evangelically minded Anglican-Methodist clergy found the Church of England sufficiently strong and flexible enough to do the work of the Church rigorously and creatively, and that Methodism could serve as a means of Anglican pastoral success.
Joseph McAleer
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203292
- eISBN:
- 9780191675843
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203292.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This book is concerned with the reading public which Wilkie Collins and George Orwell tried to describe, during the period when Orwell wrote and which Collins would have recognised: from 1914 until ...
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This book is concerned with the reading public which Wilkie Collins and George Orwell tried to describe, during the period when Orwell wrote and which Collins would have recognised: from 1914 until 1950. The book examines three publishing houses, noting in particular their complicated editorial policies within the increasingly ‘mass’ market. These are Mills & Boon, D. C. Thomson, and the Religious Tract Society. Mills & Boon and D. C. Thomson were the quintessential publishers of the early 20th century: essentially commercial enterprises, each firm reflected changing social values within its publications while courting their readerships. The Religious Tract Society was less successful: a 19th-century foundation embodying the spirit of Victorian liberalism, it failed to adapt to a changing (and increasingly secular) world, with disastrous results.Less
This book is concerned with the reading public which Wilkie Collins and George Orwell tried to describe, during the period when Orwell wrote and which Collins would have recognised: from 1914 until 1950. The book examines three publishing houses, noting in particular their complicated editorial policies within the increasingly ‘mass’ market. These are Mills & Boon, D. C. Thomson, and the Religious Tract Society. Mills & Boon and D. C. Thomson were the quintessential publishers of the early 20th century: essentially commercial enterprises, each firm reflected changing social values within its publications while courting their readerships. The Religious Tract Society was less successful: a 19th-century foundation embodying the spirit of Victorian liberalism, it failed to adapt to a changing (and increasingly secular) world, with disastrous results.
Geordan Hammond
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198701606
- eISBN:
- 9780191771408
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198701606.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History, History of Christianity
The centrality of Wesley’s vision for restoring primitive Christianity is most clearly seen in the manner he conducted his ministry in Georgia. The application of his view of primitive Christianity ...
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The centrality of Wesley’s vision for restoring primitive Christianity is most clearly seen in the manner he conducted his ministry in Georgia. The application of his view of primitive Christianity in his clerical practice in the colony is the focus of chapter 4. His endeavours to imitate the practices of Christ and the early church manifested themselves variously through interest in prayer book revision, precise sacramental observance, confession, penance, ascetical discipline, deaconesses, religious societies, and missions to the Indians. Not surprisingly, Wesley’s implementation of practices encouraged by the Usager Nonjurors was met with varying degrees of approval and opposition. By the end of his time in Georgia, his confidence in the early church councils and canons was diminished, but his pursuance of the form and spirit of the primitive church was maintained.Less
The centrality of Wesley’s vision for restoring primitive Christianity is most clearly seen in the manner he conducted his ministry in Georgia. The application of his view of primitive Christianity in his clerical practice in the colony is the focus of chapter 4. His endeavours to imitate the practices of Christ and the early church manifested themselves variously through interest in prayer book revision, precise sacramental observance, confession, penance, ascetical discipline, deaconesses, religious societies, and missions to the Indians. Not surprisingly, Wesley’s implementation of practices encouraged by the Usager Nonjurors was met with varying degrees of approval and opposition. By the end of his time in Georgia, his confidence in the early church councils and canons was diminished, but his pursuance of the form and spirit of the primitive church was maintained.
Frederick S. Milton
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781474424882
- eISBN:
- 9781399502177
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424882.003.0045
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century, just a handful of children’s press titles were circulating, with the didactic and evangelical output of the Sunday Schools and Religious Tract Society ...
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In the first quarter of the nineteenth century, just a handful of children’s press titles were circulating, with the didactic and evangelical output of the Sunday Schools and Religious Tract Society dominating. From 1866 to 1914, more than 500 children’s periodicals came into circulation, featuring well over 80 newspaper ‘children’s columns’, as publishers sought to produce reading that increasingly reflected the common pursuits of the widest range of juveniles. This piece undertakes a chronological account of the periodical growth in children’s literature over the course of the century, including the development of the boy’s papers from the 1850s onwards, and moves by publishers to broaden appeal by producing unisex publications such as Cassell’s Little Folks. The second half of the nineteenth century saw development of ‘house’ periodicals of campaigning movements, such as the RSPCA’s Band of Mercy. From the mid-century, newspapers began featuring children’s columns written for children, with purpose of educating young readers, organising charitable work and acting as a forum for carrying epitaphs for child readers. Such themes are examined through the lens of the most successful children’s column, the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle’s Dicky Bird Society, which began in 1876.Less
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century, just a handful of children’s press titles were circulating, with the didactic and evangelical output of the Sunday Schools and Religious Tract Society dominating. From 1866 to 1914, more than 500 children’s periodicals came into circulation, featuring well over 80 newspaper ‘children’s columns’, as publishers sought to produce reading that increasingly reflected the common pursuits of the widest range of juveniles. This piece undertakes a chronological account of the periodical growth in children’s literature over the course of the century, including the development of the boy’s papers from the 1850s onwards, and moves by publishers to broaden appeal by producing unisex publications such as Cassell’s Little Folks. The second half of the nineteenth century saw development of ‘house’ periodicals of campaigning movements, such as the RSPCA’s Band of Mercy. From the mid-century, newspapers began featuring children’s columns written for children, with purpose of educating young readers, organising charitable work and acting as a forum for carrying epitaphs for child readers. Such themes are examined through the lens of the most successful children’s column, the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle’s Dicky Bird Society, which began in 1876.