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- proper noun theology, religion, Christianity
Anglicanism ; themovement tolatitudinarian churchmanship in theChurch of England ; collectively, those people engaged in the movement.
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Anglican theology is now represented by such men as Powell and Williams and Maurice and Jowett and Stanley; "that the Broad Church is the only one which fully embodies true progress and conservatism; that
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology
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In Christianity it is that grace-filled universalist impulse that stretches back from the Broad Church movement of the 19th century, through Milton, Locke and the Cambridge Platonists to early apologists like Justin Martyr and Origen.
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He is blissfully unaware that Adam Sedgwick was an Evangelical as conservative as Francis Close and Buckland and Conybeare were definitely not Broad Church.
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I have my own personal favourites, but most of them belong to the 'so bad it's good' category like Charles Maurice Davies's deeply bizarre novel Broad Church.
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It would not need to be confessional Christian, it could be like Emergent a Broad Church.
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I leave that to the Broad Church who want to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
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From the perspective of institutional history, Bellows and the Broad Church group prevailed with the establishment of a broadly-inclusive denominational structure that acknowledged Unitarianism's Christian origin without requiring doctrinal agreement.
Philocrites: 'Words are not the only language': Henry Whitney Bellows's view of scripture.
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Although the Broad Church group successfully provided the institutional and intellectual bridge which linked the Unitarianism of Channing to the philosophical and non-institutional Unitarianism of the transcendentalist radicals, most contemporary Unitarian Universalists have heard nothing about Bellows.
Philocrites: 'Words are not the only language': Henry Whitney Bellows's view of scripture.
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His ethical concerns led to his being seen as the "Father" of the Broad Church movement in ANGLICANISM which rejected both EVANGELICAL PIETY and the move towards ROMAN CATHOLICISM.
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And the first fine careless rapture of the Tracts for the Times, their aspiration that the Church of England could be protected against all its encircling enemies: Romish beguilements, Low Church aridity, Broad Church liberalism (i.e. impiety).
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