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The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the origin of the Anglican tradition, with foundational doctrines being contained in the Thirty-nine Articles and The Books of Homilies. [2] Its adherents are called Anglicans.
Religion and Society in Industrial England. Church, Chapel and Social Change, 1740–1914 (Longman, 1976). Glasson, Travis. Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World (2011). Hastings, Adrian. A history of English Christianity, 1920–1985 (HarperCollins, 1986). Hylson-Smith, Kenneth.
The Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC) is an association of mainly conservative evangelical Anglican members of the Church of England. [1] [2] [3] It self-describes as the collective voice of the "vast majority" of evangelicals within the Church of England, [4] and states its aim "to promote and maintain orthodox evangelical theology and ethics at the heart of the Church of England". [5]
While the Church of England was historically identified with the upper classes, and with the rural gentry, William Temple, archbishop of Canterbury (1942–1944), was both a prolific theologian and a social activist, preaching Christian socialism and taking an active role in the Labour Party until 1921. [91]
It was founded on 16 October 1811 as the "National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church in England and Wales".The Church of England, as the established religion, set out as the aim of the new organisation that "the National Religion should be made the foundation of National Education, and should be the first and chief thing taught to the ...
The Church of England (Continuing) has one church building, St Mary's in Reading, which was the church of its founding member, David Samuel.A second group meets in Wolverhampton, in the former Long Street synagogue (built 1903). [7]
Christian culture depended on organisational structure in the form of churches and priests to provide baptisms, instruction and places of worship. [173] Because of this, the ability for Christianity to be adopted by Scandinavians in England in parts with seeming absence or serious weakening of Church institutions has been questioned. [184]
The London Society for Promotion of Christianity Amongst the Jews (now the Church's Ministry Among Jewish People) was created in 1809. In the 1830s, the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury , a leading evangelical, helped persuade Lord Palmerston , the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to sponsor Jewish settlement.