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Although the overall population was growing steadily, and the Catholic membership was keeping pace, the Protestants were slipping behind. Out of 30–50 million adults, they dropped slowly from 5.7 million members in 1920, and 5.4 million in 1940, to 4.3 million in 1970. [46]: 273–265 The Church of England decline was parallel.
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.
This suggests the British church was well established by the early 4th century. [3] [4] It is unclear how widely the Romano-British people adopted Christianity. Historian Marc Morris writes, "As for organized Christianity in Britain, the evidence suggests it had never been very strongly established in the first place."
A Catalogue of the Severall Sects and Opinions in England and other Nations: With a briefe Rehearsall of their false and dangerous Tenents, a propaganda broadsheet denouncing English dissenters from 1647. English Dissenters or English Separatists were Protestants who separated from the Church of England in the 17th and 18th centuries. [1]
[1] [2] The book and others by Morgan had an influencing effect on the development of Neo-Celtic Christianity. [3] The fifth to seventh editions were published by the Covenant Publishing Company, London, in 1925, 1939 and later. [4] The work suggests the early entry of Christianity into Britain by Paul the Apostle, Simon Zelotes and Joseph of ...
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.
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The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, 1880–1914 (2003) Prevost, Elizabeth. "Assessing Women, Gender, and Empire in Britain's Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missionary Movement." History Compass 7#3 (2009): 765–799. Stanley, Brian. The Bible and the Flag: Protestant Mission and British Imperialism in the 19th and 20th ...