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  2. History of Christianity in Britain - Wikipedia

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    Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World (2011). Hastings, Adrian. A history of English Christianity, 1920-1985 (HarperCollins, 1986). Hylson-Smith, Kenneth. The churches in England from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II (1996). Marshall, Peter.

  3. First Great Awakening - Wikipedia

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    Second (c. 1790–1840) Third (c. 1855–1930) Fourth (c. 1960–1980) v. t. e. The First Great Awakening, sometimes Great Awakening or the Evangelical Revival, was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. The revival movement permanently affected Protestantism as ...

  4. History of the Church of England - Wikipedia

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    The Church of England traces its history back to 597. That year, a group of missionaries sent by the pope and led by Augustine of Canterbury began the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons. Augustine became the first archbishop of Canterbury. Throughout the Middle Ages, the English Church was a part of the Catholic Church led by the pope in Rome.

  5. Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England - Wikipedia

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    The Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England was the process starting in the late 6th century by which population of England formerly adhering to the Anglo-Saxon, and later Nordic, forms of Germanic paganism converted to Christianity and adopted Christian worldviews. The process of Christianisation and timing of the adoption of Christianity ...

  6. Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England - Wikipedia

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    After the departure of the Roman army, the Britons recruited the Anglo-Saxons to defend Britain, but they rebelled against their British hosts in 442. [5] The newcomers eventually conquered England, and their religion, Anglo-Saxon paganism, became dominant. The Britons of Wales and Cornwall, however, continued to practice Christianity.

  7. Church of England - Wikipedia

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    www.churchofengland.org. The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the origin of the Anglican tradition, which combines features of both Reformed and Catholic Christian practices. Its adherents are called Anglicans.

  8. Christianity in the 18th century - Wikipedia

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    Historian Sydney E. Ahlstrom identified a "great international Protestant upheaval" that created Pietism in Germany and Scandinavia, the Evangelical Revival, and Methodism in England, and the First Great Awakening in the American colonies. [1] This powerful grass-roots evangelical movement shifted the emphasis from formality to inner piety.

  9. Christianity in the 17th century - Wikipedia

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    The KJV is an Early Modern English translation of the Bible by certain members of the Church of England that was begun in 1604 and completed in 1611. [1] John Winthrop (1587/8-1649), Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who led the Puritans in the Great Migration, beginning in 1630. 17th-century missionary activity in Asia and the Americas ...