Evangelical Anglican Way: Timeline 1375-2019 (original) (raw)
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Finding the Evangelical Anglican Way 1375 to the present day: Introduction and Conclusion
The papers in this collection trace a movement the character of which can be seen by following clues lying in the history of British Christianity over a period of more than six hundred years. It is not about two 'isms', evangelicalism and Anglicanism, labels often attached to particular positions and parties. Nor is it about the discovery of a clear path by which one may demarcate precisely who is on a particular road. Owing much to the contribution of past Protestants, Puritans, Pietists and Pentecostalists, radical evangelical Anglicans have found the message of regeneration and spiritual transformation revealed clearly in the bestowed Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. These strike a prophetic note that is both realistic and optimistic in anticipating God’s future. Evangelical Anglicans believe the good news to be revealed in Jesus Christ, the expression of crucified God in person. They have been sustained in this by a liberating, reasonable, experiential and experimental faith. Ready to ‘try God out’ in the practical realities of daily human life, and in spite of their acknowledged and ongoing sinfulness, they always expect Christian discipleship to be expressive both in word and deed, and certainly never exclusively for their own benefit.
Faith Markers on the Evangelical Anglican Way: 1375 to the present day
‘Faith Markers’ expressed by significant 'Faith Shapers' and groups, have indicated the evangelical Anglican pathway of faith and practice over 650 years. Most of those posted in this selection, but by no means all, represent the views of Christian followers in this tradition. This is a collection of relevant personal statements of faith by respected male and female figureheads together with some views of other perceptive observers, critics and commentators. A few more general conclusions drawn up by groups of Christians are included, usually relating to their contemporary context, challenge or opportunity. The 'markers' are of importance for all who wish to understand or pursue the evangelical Anglican way, and continue to see it as a positive path-finding movement in the Church of today. The twelve sections, consisting of 'statements', relate also to the headings in the compiler’s website, www.faithshapers.co.uk and the Academia papers online, 'Finding the Evangelical Anglican Way: 1375 to the present day'. They also derive from reflection upon his own personal spiritual journey.
Evangelical Anglican Way: Post- and Pre-millennial 1790-1828
At a time of apparent strength, evangelicals began to separate into parties of like-minded fellow travellers. At first, leading evangelical Anglicans used their considerable wealth and influence both to advance the kingdom of God by propagating the Christian gospel throughout the British Empire and to ameliorate the depredations of nineteenth century metropolitan life in the homeland. They were optimistic post-millennialists. However, in the aftermath of the French revolution, the Napoleonic wars and social unrest some Anglican evangelicals embraced a deeply fatalistic view of the current state of the nation and its spiritual health, coupled with a sombre fear for the future. They found Biblical hope in an expectation of the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ before the establishment of God’s kingdom on earth as in heaven. They were pessimistic pre-millennialists. A rift therefore became apparent between different sorts of evangelical that still has repercussions today.
The Emergence of the Protestant Evangelical Tradition
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It has been increasingly recognized that there are substantial differences between evangelicals. This has become focussed in recent years with the strengthening of the evangelical movement within the Church of England; when a group is in a distinct minority ...
Evangelical Anglican Way: Reacting, Reviving and Reforming 1828-1900
The privatization of evangelical religion was an unwelcome development commonly associated with the nineteenth century. By the middle of it, evangelical Anglicans had lost the visionary vitality of earlier years but none of their hostility to Roman Catholic faith and practices. Increasingly adopting a pre-millennial expectation of Christ’s return, some became profoundly pessimistic about the world and were seduced into a withdrawal from the kind of engagement in public life that had marked the previous generation. Visitors from America offered hope of revival, and a deeper life of faith. Although some leaders abandoned their evangelical roots, Lord Shaftesbury and Josephine Butler did not. They were two exceptional examples of those who resisted the temptation to opt out of their Christian responsibility within the nation at large. In fine, the evangelical priority in the last half of the nineteenth century was to preach the transforming gospel of Jesus Christ which would lead to the conversion of persons and their spiritual improvement individually and collectively in anticipation of the expected return of their Lord.
Finding the Evangelical Anglican Way in Wales: 1555-2020
Wales had its martyrs and heroes of the Protestant and Reformed faith. Translated into the language of the people (1588), the Bible became the foundation not only of Christian discipleship but also of their education and culture. In the eighteenth century revival nearly all the first leaders were Anglicans, and remained so until they were discarded by the national church. Thereafter with increasingly politicised convictions, the nineteenth century Welsh Nonconformists firmly resisted the ’English’ church and all that it stood for. However, in what was to become ‘The Church in Wales’ (1920), the evangelical Anglican beneficiaries of successive Pietist revivals continued to uphold the faith of their Welsh fathers. At that time High Church and for the most part Tractarian leaders were in control of what they regarded as ‘the ancient Catholic Church of the land.’ They encouraged its early twentieth century resurgence as a new contributor within the global Anglican Communion. Nevertheless during the second half of the century, like the Nonconformists and all the other Christian denominations, Welsh Anglicans faced a catastrophic decline in numbers which has continued ever since, unhalted. All the denominational churches, including evangelical Anglicans who are divided on how to minister to persons in same sex unions, now need to address the challenge of rapidly declining Christian faith and practice in Wales.
Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume II: Establishment and Empire, edited by Jeremy Gregory, 2017
Anglican Evangelicals have always been captivated by their early history. In few places is this more obvious than at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, founded in 1879 to produce educated ordinands and missionaries to combat what its founders considered to be evils that were peculiar to its age: rationalism, 'Romanism', and theological liberalism. 1 It was the product of a movement whose identity was fostered in print and in bricks and mortar through a range of educational and philanthropic institutions, and which raised hundreds of thousands of pounds a year through well-managed societies. Yet although-and perhaps because-the scale and sophistication of the movement would have been unimaginable a hundred years earlier, Evangelicals remained enthralled by an earlier, more rough and ready age. In few places was this more deeply felt than in Cambridge, where Charles Simeon, curate of Holy Trinity from 1782 and vicar there from 1783 until his death in 1836, was still venerated, his sway over generations of undergraduates, according to the historian Macaulay, being 'far greater than that of any Primate'.