Church Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain, 1848-1865 - The London Union on Church Matters. DE

This is a new and original study of High Church activism in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the church union movement, it describes and explains unprecedented levels of clerical-lay cooperation in campaigns of Church defense, responses to contemporary pressures inside the Church, and efforts to mitigate problems in Church-state relations. It explores the leadership role of the London Union on Church Matters and the main factors that shaped its activities, especially Tractarianism, the sense that the Church did not have a sufficiently strong representative voice in debates about questions that directly affected it, and political and social developments that threatened the status and influence of the Church

List of contents

Introduction.- 1. Reviving the Church.- 2. Church Unions.- 3. The Gorham Judgment and After.- 4. Upholding the "Church Cause".- 5. Education.- 6. Romanizers and Ritualists?.- 7. Episcopal and Parliamentary Concerns.- 8. The Allure of Self-Government.- 9. Enduring Commitments.- 10. "Suitable to the Wants of our Restless and Progressive Age".- 11. Church Revival in Jeopardy?.- 12. Pragmatism and "Extremism".- Conclusion.

About the author

Michael J. Turner is Roy Carroll Distinguished Professor of British History at Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA

Summary

This is a new and original study of High Church activism in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the church union movement, it describes and explains unprecedented levels of clerical-lay cooperation in campaigns of Church defense, responses to contemporary pressures inside the Church, and efforts to mitigate problems in Church-state relations. It explores the leadership role of the London Union on Church Matters and the main factors that shaped its activities, especially Tractarianism, the sense that the Church did not have a sufficiently strong representative voice in debates about questions that directly affected it, and political and social developments that threatened the status and influence of the Church

Product details

• Authors: Michael J Turner, Michael J. Turner
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 06.11.2025
• EAN: 9783031991424
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3199142-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Illustrations: Approx. 400 p.
• Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000; Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Geschichte, Christentum, Geschichte der Religion, Westeuropa, Christianity, History of Religion, Church of England, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, church-state relations, High Churchmen, LUCM, Tractarianism