Anglicanism

(noun)

The beliefs and practices of the Anglican Church

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Examples of Anglicanism in the following topics:

  • The Anglican Class

    • It passed a law in 1632 requiring uniformity among the Anglican congregations of the colony.
    • This allowed devout Anglicans to lead an active and sincere religious life apart from the unsatisfactory formal church services.
    • Baptists, German Lutherans, and Presbyterians funded their own ministers and favored disestablishment of the Anglican Church.
    • The Patriots, led by Thomas Jefferson, disestablished the Anglican Church in 1786.
    • Government and college officials in the capital at Williamsburg were required to attend services at this Anglican church.

  • Social Classes in the Colonies

    • Unlike Europe, where aristocratic families and the established church were in control, the American political culture was open to economic, social, religious, ethnic, and geographical interests, with merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other identifiable groups taking part.
    • The plantation areas of Virginia were integrated into the vestry system of the established Anglican church.

  • Virginia

    • When the elected assembly, the House of Burgesses, was established in 1619, it enacted religious laws that made Virginia a bastion of Anglicanism.
    • It passed a law in 1632 requiring uniformity among the Anglican congregations of the colony.
    • This allowed devout Anglicans to lead an active and sincere religious life apart from the unsatisfactory formal church services.
    • Baptists, German Lutherans, and Presbyterians funded their own ministers and favored disestablishment of the Anglican Church.
    • The Patriots, led by Thomas Jefferson, disestablished the Anglican Church in 1786.

  • Ecumenism

    • Members of the Anglican Communion, in the United Kingdom, have generally embraced the Ecumenical Movement, and actively participate in organizations like the World Council of Churches and the NCCC.
    • Within the Anglican Communion, each member church is allowed to make its own decision with regard to intercommunion.

  • The Glorious Revolution in America

    • He mistreated the royal troops stationed in Boston, whose officers included Anglicans and Roman Catholics.
    • He alienated otherwise supportive Tories with his attempts to relax penal laws and faced opposition from the Anglican church hierarchy when he issued the Declaration of Indulgence.
    • James also attempted to place sympathizers in Parliament who would repeal the Test Act, which required a strict Anglican religious test for many civil offices.

  • The Great Awakening

    • Although the Great Awakening represented the first time African Americans embraced Christianity in large numbers, Anglican missionaries had long sought to convert blacks, again with the printed as well as the spoken word.

  • The Ecclesia

    • The Anglican Church of England, for example, is a state church that does not have the adherence of all English citizens.

  • Religious Denominations

    • The term describes various Christian denominations (for example, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicanism, and the many varieties of Protestantism).

  • Masks in the Kalabari Kingdom

    • Although the Ijaw are now primarily Christians (95% profess to be), with Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism being the varieties of Christianity most prevalent among them, they also maintain elaborate traditional religious practices.

  • Protestantism

    • These early Protestant settlers represented a diversity of Protestant sects, including Anglicanism, Baptism, Congregationalism, Presbyterianism, Lutheranism, Quakerism, the Mennonite Church and the Moravian Church.
    • Opponents of the Awakening or those split by it, Anglicans, Quakers, and Congregationalists, were left behind.