The Missions of the Scottish Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-186
Author(s):  
Rowan Strong
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Episcopal Church

Episcopalian Theology 1689–c.1900

2019 ◽  
pp. 265-283
Author(s):  
Rowan Strong
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
Church Of Scotland ◽  
Theological Influences ◽  
High Church ◽  
Theological Differences ◽  
The Church

The chapter examines the principal developments in the emergence of the Scottish Episcopal Church from the end of the Stuart monarchy in 1689, when Episcopalians began to be ejected as non-jurors from the Church of Scotland to the end of the nineteenth century. It concentrates on those aspects of theology which particularly marked out these Scots as Episcopalians, especially in liturgy, the Eucharist and sacraments, episcopacy, and Jacobitism. While reviewing the development of a separate ecclesiastical and theological identity in these two centuries, the chapter also explores some of the internal theological differences between Episcopalians. External theological influences and connections from England over this period, principally from High Church, Oxford Movement Anglicanism, and Evangelicalism, are also examined.

Varieties of Missionary Bishop

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Free Form ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
Ecclesial Identity

This chapter describes the origin and development of the concept of ‘missionary bishop’ from the mid-nineteenth century. Charting the origin of the term in the American Episcopal Church as it expanded westwards, which saw the appointment of the first ‘missionary bishops’ whose role was to plant churches, it shows how its own traditions of ‘primitive’ episcopacy chimed in with the elevation of the ‘apostolical succession’ by the Oxford Movement, which again emphasized the importance of the early church. This understanding of episcopacy allowed non-established missionary bishops to be sent across the British Empire, and even beyond the realms of the British Crown. The chapter concludes that a ‘primitive’ missionary episcopate was to some degree a cypher for a non-established, ‘free’ form of Anglicanism which created an independent ecclesial identity that nevertheless did little to challenge the wider imperial project.

The Cross: Church Symbol and Contest in Nineteenth-Century America

2001 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 705-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan K. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Taking Charge ◽  
Lotus Leaves ◽  
The Cross

In 1834 the rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Burlington, New Jersey desired to place a cross atop his newly-refurbished sanctuary. No ordinary rector, George Washington Doane also served as the Episcopal bishop of New Jersey. Shortly after taking charge of St. Mary's in 1833, he and his vestry had decided to renovate their old church, and their ambitious new design featured a cruciform plan with Greek details, including a pediment adorned with lotus leaves and a tower “derived from that built at Athens… commonly called the Tower of the Winds.” But when Doane carried out the plans for “an enriched Greek Cross” to be mounted on the roof, the community stood aghast. A local Presbyterian minister chronicled the confrontation, and he began by asserting that most of St. Mary's vestrymen had originally approved the designs without “noticing the Cross at the time.” The project was thus completed, and to the vestry's “great surprise, as well as that of many in the community, of all ‘denominations’—lo! a Cross made quite a Catholic appearance on the apex of the pediment!” Controversy arose, “both in the Vestry and out of it,” and “after a very warm meeting, one of the Vestry shortly after declared that unless the Cross was taken down very soon, it should be pulled down.”

‘Self-Support’: The Episcopal Mission and Nationalism in Japan

1989 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-501
Author(s):  
William L. Sachs
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Development ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Cultural Shifts ◽  
Japanese Nationalism

Japan offers a profound instance of the encounter between culture and Christian mission. From 1859 to 1940 American Protestant missionaries encountered powerful cultural shifts as Japan modernized. Public enthusiasm for Western ways in the late nineteenth century tempted missionaries and some Japanese to believe that Christianity was Japan's greatest resource for national development. However, the rise of nationalism made the role of churches and missionaries in Japanese life problematic. Scholars have not examined closely the Protestant missionary adaptation to Japanese nationalism. The missionaries of the Episcopal church provide an important instance of such response.

Eucharistic Sacrifice, American Polemics, the Oxford Movement and Apostolicae Curae

2011 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
KENNETH L. PARKER ◽  
DANIEL HANDSCHY
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
Saint Louis

In the received narratives of Anglican-Roman Catholic tensions in the nineteenth century, claims to a sacrificial priesthood are presented as an Oxford Movement development, and Apostolicae curae is treated as the ultimate Roman Catholic response. This article tells a very different story. Locating the origins of the preoccupation with sacrificial priesthood in the early nineteenth-century American Episcopal Church, and the central Roman Catholic response in the polemics of the archbishop of Saint Louis in 1841, the narrative is recast as an example of how theology done at the ‘margins’ affects the discourse at the ‘centres’ of ecclesial communities.

The Idea of a ‘Missionary Bishop’ in the Spread of the Anglican Communion in the Nineteenth Century

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Yates
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Church Missionary Society ◽  
The Church ◽  
Foundation Stone

ABSTRACTIn the 1830s, among those associated with the Tractarian revival in England and also among certain figures in the (then) Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States (PECUSA), the idea of the ‘missionary bishop’ was propagated, which presented the bishop as a pioneer evangelist as the apostles were understood to be in New Testament times and saw the planting of the Church as necessarily including a bishop from the beginning for the ‘full integrity’ of the Church to be present. This view of the bishop as the ‘foundation stone’ was not held by the Evangelicals of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), who saw the bishop by contrast as the ‘crown’ or coping stone of the young churches. Two main protagonists were the High Churchman, Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, and the honorary secretary and missionary strategist, Henry Venn. The party, led by C.F. Mackenzie as Bishop and mounted by the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) in 1861 to the tribes near Lake Nyassa, was the outworking of this Tractarian ideal.

Problems with the Path of Phillips Brooks

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-239
Author(s):  
Christopher Wells
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Phillips Brooks

ABSTRACTThis article takes the opportunity of Gillis Harp's recent biography of nineteenth-century American Episcopalian Phillips Brooks to engage Harp's theological situation of the Episcopal Church. Harp's revisionist historiographical argument, rejecting the Broad Church ‘myth of synthesis’ for a more agonized tale of trenchant party battles, is welcome for its perceptiveness and depth of analysis, not least as these historical difficulties remain at the centre of contemporary intra-Anglican and ecumenical conversations. Harp's commitment to a ‘Reformed’ and ‘evangelical’ Anglicanism, however, raises a series of questions – concerning the nature of orthodoxy and Christian doctrine, as well as ‘Protestant’ identity – that deserve greater investigation, and that historians and theologians would do well to pursue together.

scholarly journals The Altar and the Rail: “Catholicity” and African American Inclusion in the 19th Century Episcopal Church

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 224
Author(s):  
Jennifer Snow
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Racially Diverse ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
White Allies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Church

Examining the denominational history of The Episcopal Church from the point of view of mission shifts the view of the church’s nature and its most important figures. These become those people who struggled to overcome boundaries of race, culture, and geography in extending the church’s reach and incorporating new people into it, and puts issues of racial relationships at the forefront of the church’s story, rather than as an aside. White Episcopalians from the 1830s forward were focused heavily on the meaning of “catholicity” in terms of liturgical and sacramental practice, clerical privilege, and the centrality of the figure of the Bishop to the validity of the church, in increasingly tense and conflicted debates that have been traced by multiple scholars. However, the development of catholicity as a strategic marker of missional thinking, particularly in the context of a racially diverse church, has not been examined. The paper investigates the ways in which Black Episcopalians and their white allies used the theological ideal of catholicity creatively and strategically in the nineteenth century, both responding to a particular missional history and contending that missional success depended upon true catholicity.

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