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After the Americans broke free, British officials decided to enhance the power and wealth of the Church of England in all the settler colonies, especially British North America (Canada). [ 36 ] During the New Imperialism of the 19th century, the London Missionary Society and others like it were active In the British Empire around the world ...
The Christian church based its organisation on Roman provinces. The church in each city was led by a bishop, and the chief city of the province was led by a metropolitan bishop. [2] In 314, three British bishops attended the Council of Arles: Eborius from Eboracum (York), Restitutus from Londinium (London), and Adelfius from Lindum Colonia ...
Christian denominations in the United Kingdom (20 C, 9 P) British Christians (18 C, 75 P) Christianity in British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies (6 C)
Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650–1780 is a book by Nicholas M. Beasley published in 2009 by University of Georgia Press.This work presents a perspective on Christian institutions and customs in the Caribbean and Southern American colonies of Britain and how they influenced and impacted the institution of slavery between 1650 and 1780.
Christian traders were heavily involved in the Atlantic slave trade, which had the effect of transporting Africans into Christian communities. A land war between Christianity and Islam continued, in the form of the campaigns of the Habsburg Empire and Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, a turning point coming at Vienna in 1683.
Title page of the book. Magnalia Christi Americana (roughly, The Glorious Works of Christ in America) is a book published in 1702 by the puritan minister Cotton Mather (1663–1728). Its title is in Latin, but its subtitle is in English: The Ecclesiastical History of New England from Its First Planting in 1620, until the Year of Our Lord 1698.
The author Gerald Gardner had a copy of Morgan's book and used it as the basis for his writing on British Christianity. [6] Edward Cardwell published a critical booklet on the topic in 1837 entitled The Supposed Visit of St Paul to Britain: a Lecture Delivered in the University of Oxford (Sermons, Volume 2), that predated Morgan's book. [7] [8]
The Roman poet Ausonius corresponded with Flavius Sanctus, the Christian governor of one of the British provinces. [30] A modern depiction of Saint Patrick, the only Romano-British Christian to leave a surviving written testimony. In 391, Emperor Theodosius banned all pagan religions throughout the empire, with Christianity now the official ...