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Anglican Evangelicals

• In Anglican Evangelical
  …also been referred to as low churchmen because they give a “low” place to the importance of the episcopal form of church government, the sacraments, and liturgical worship. The term Low Church was used by about the end of the 17th century, although this emphasis within Anglicanism was evident since…
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Anglican schools of thought

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  In Anglicanism: Comprehensiveness in doctrine and practice
  including High Church, Anglo-Catholic, Low Church or Evangelical, and others. The various churches of the Anglican Communion, though autonomous, are bound together by a common heritage and common doctrinal and liturgical concerns, and there has always been a considerable amount of interchange of ecclesiastical personnel.
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Episcopal Church in the United States of America

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  In Episcopal Church in the United States of America: Early history to the 20th century
  …emphasize the Protestant heritage (Low Church). In later years the promotion of liberal theology, biblical criticism, the Social Gospel, and the ecumenical movement lessened the tensions between the High and Low Church attitudes.
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leadership by Simeon

• In Charles Simeon
  …who led the Evangelical (or Low Church) movement, in reaction to the liturgically and episcopally oriented High Church party.
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views on episcopacy

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  In Christianity: Church polity
  The Low Church tradition of the Anglican Communion views the episcopal office as a form of ecclesiastical polity that has been tested through the centuries and is therefore commendable for pragmatic reasons. The Broad Church tradition, however, emphatically adheres to the traditional worth of the episcopal…
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