The Church of England and Religious Liberty at Pre-Revolutionary Yale

1960 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 314
Author(s):  
Louis Leonard Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
The Church

The Career of John Abernethy (1680–1740) Father of Nonsubscription in Ireland and Defender of Religious Liberty

1985 ◽  
Vol 78 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 399-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Barlow
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

The British theological world was stirred at the beginning of the eighteenth century by what the learned and staunchly orthodox Presbyterian historian James Seaton Reid has called “latitudinarian notions on the inferiority of dogmatic belief and the nature of religious liberty.” In the 1690s John Locke had published his Reasonableness of Christianity and Letters on Toleration, followed by John Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious. In 1710 “Honest Will” Whitson, Sir Isaac Newton's successor as Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, was expelled from the University for embracing Arian views. His departure was accompanied by rumors—long since substantiated—about his great predecessor's heterodox theology. Traditional theologians were shocked next by the appearance of Dr. Samuel Clark's Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity which resulted in the author's arraignment before Convocation of the Church of England in 1714. The very same year John Simson, Professor of Divinity in the University of Glasgow, was first tried before the General Assembly of the Scottish Presbyterian Church for teaching Arian and Pelagian errors. In 1729, after three more trials, Simson was suspended from his professorship for denying the numerical oneness of the Trinity. Fierce doctrinal contentions also began to occupy English Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Baptists, erupting during the famous Salters’ Hall meeting early in 1719.

Principles Established in Rhode Island

1936 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-226
Author(s):  
R. E. E. Harkness
Keyword(s):  
Rhode Island ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Massachusetts Bay ◽  
Massachusetts Bay Colony ◽  
Roger Williams ◽  
The Church

Roger Williams is justly famous in history as the Pioneer Statesman of Religious Liberty. He can never be robbed of this distinction and honor. But it is not the only cause for which he should be famous. According to the well known story, arriving in Massachusetts Bay Colony on February 5, 1631, he declined an invitation to become minister of the Boston Church because it was constituted of “an unseparated people,” still holding fellowship with the Church of England, and because the civil magistrates of the Bay punished for breaches of the First Table, that is exerted authority in religious affairs. After years of controversy with the authorities of the Bay, sentence of banishment was passed upon him in October, 1635, and in January, 1636, he was forced to leave its jurisdiction. Reaching the Narragansett country, he established the Providence Community and later Rhode Island Colony.

Hatred, Sexual Orientation, Free Speech and Religious Liberty

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Leigh
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Employment Discrimination ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Church ◽  
Partial Success

In recent years, the clash between supporters of religious liberty and sexual orientation equality legislation has led to repeated battles both in Parliament and the courts. First came the clashes over the scope of exemptions in employment discrimination legislation for religious groups. The UK Regulations dealing with employment discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation give a limited exception for ‘employment for purposes of an organised religion’, which allows an employer to apply a requirement related to sexual orientation to comply with the doctrines of the religion, or to avoid conflicting with the strongly held religious convictions of a significant number of the religion's followers. A legal challenge brought to the scope of this exception was unsuccessful but, despite that, the exemption has not averted damaging findings of discrimination against the Church of England. The Bishop of Hereford was held to have discriminated unlawfully in blocking the appointment of a practising homosexual to a youth-officer post within the Church of England. The partial success of religious groups in achieving exemption was followed by defeat in the equivalent regulations dealing with discrimination in goods and services, made under the Equality Act 2006, despite the claims of Catholic adoption agencies that they would rather close than place children with same-sex couples.

scholarly journals Recent Literature in Church HistoryKirchengeschichte für das evangelische Haus. Friedrich Baum , Christian GeyerThe Story of the Christian Centuries. Edward Griffin SeldenEarly Christianity and Paganism: A.D. 64 to the Peace of the Church in the Fourth Century. H. Donald M. SpenceA History of the Church of Christ. Herbert KellyDie Theologie der neuentdeckten Predigten Novatians: Eine dogmengeschichtliche Untersuchung. Hermann JordanDie Beteiligung der Christen am öffentlichen Leben in vorconstantinischer Zeit: Ein Beitrag zur ältesten Kirchengeschichte. Andreas BigelmairChristus Victor!. Nikolaus HeineDie Fälschungen Erzbischof Lanfranks von Canterbury. Heinrich BœhmerA Manual of Church History. Vol. II: "Modern Church History" (A. D. 1517-1903). Albert Henry NewmanThe Continental Reformation. B. J. KiddL'État chrétien calviniste à Genève au temps de Théodore de Bèze. Eugène ChoisyQuellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte Savonarolas. I: Bartolomeo Redditi und Tommasso Ginori. Joseph SchnitzerBeiträge zur Geschichte der Reformation in Österreich. Eduard BöhlBeiträge zur Geschichte des spanischen Protestantismus und der Inquisition im sechzehnten Jahrhundert. Ernst SchäferLuther's Sprichwörtersammlung. Ernst ThieleHistory of the Church of England: From the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction. Vol. VI. Elizabeth.-A. D. 1564-1570. Richard Watson DixonFather Marquette. Reuben Gold ThwaitesThe Rise of Religious Liberty in America: A History. Sanford H. CobbChristendom Anno Domini 1901-2. William GrantDie soziale und politische Bilanz der römischen Kirche. Yves GuyotDie Absichtslenkung; Oder, Der Zweck heiligt die Mittel. Otto ZöcklerAnnuaire pontifical catholique. Albert Battandier

1903 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 388-404
Author(s):  
Eri B. Hulbert ◽  
Franklin Johnson ◽  
John W. Moncrief
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Church History ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Church Of Christ ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, 11th July 1982

Moreana ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (Number 157- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 58-71
Author(s):  
John McConica
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
International Commission ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

During the period in which these papers were given, there were great achievements on the ecumenical scene, as the quest to restore the Church’s unity was pursued enthusiastically by all the major Christiandenominations. The Papal visit of John Paul II to England in 1982 witnessed a warmth in relationships between the Church of England and the Catholic Church that had not been experienced since the early 16th century Reformation in England to which More fell victim. The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission was achieving considerable doctrinal consensus and revisionist scholarship was encouraging an historical review by which the faithful Catholic and the confessing Protestant could look upon each other respectfully and appreciatively. It is to this ecumenical theme that James McConica turns in his contribution.

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