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Evangelical Anglicanism or Evangelical Episcopalianism is a tradition or church party within Anglicanism that shares affinity with broader evangelicalism. Evangelical Anglicans share with other evangelicals the attributes of "conversionism, activism, biblicism and crucicentrism" identified by historian David Bebbington as central to evangelical ...
Evangelical ministers dissatisfied with both Anglicanism and Methodism often chose to work within these churches. [227] In the 1790s, all of these evangelical groups, including the Anglicans, were Calvinist in orientation. [228] Methodism (the "New Dissent") was the most visible expression of evangelicalism by the end of the 18th century.
This tolerance has allowed Anglicans who emphasise the catholic tradition and others who emphasise the reformed tradition to coexist. The three schools of thought (or parties) in the Church of England are sometimes called high church (or Anglo-Catholic), low church (or evangelical Anglican) and broad church (or liberal). The high church party ...
Charles Simeon espoused and popularised evangelical Reformed positions in the 18th and 19th centuries, while the Oxford Movement re-introduced monasticism, religious orders and various other pre-Reformation practices and beliefs in the 19th century. Anglicanism historically developed as via media between two branches of Protestantism ...
The high church are the beliefs and practices of Christian ecclesiology, liturgy, and theology that emphasize "ritual, priestly authority, [and] sacraments". [1] Although used in connection with various Christian traditions, the term originated in and has been principally associated with the Anglican tradition, where it describes churches using a number of ritual practices associated in the ...
The Evangelical Anglican Church In America (EACA) is an independent denomination of Anglo-Catholicism. It is counted as a member of the Old Catholic faith community, deriving, its apostolic succession, in first instances, from it. Secondary lines of succession arise from both autocephalous Orthodox Churches as well as Eastern Catholic Churches. [2]
The term "Continuing Anglicanism" refers to a number of church bodies which have formed outside of the Anglican Communion in the belief that traditional forms of Anglican faith, worship, and order have been unacceptably revised or abandoned within some Anglican Communion churches in recent decades. They therefore claim that they are "continuing ...
For example, in Spanish, the church is called Iglesia Episcopal Protestante de los Estados Unidos de América or Iglesia Episcopal, [28] and in French Église protestante épiscopale des États-Unis d'Amérique or Église épiscopale. [29] Until 1964, "The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America" was the only official name ...