Anglicanism

(noun)

The beliefs and practices of the Anglican Church

Related Terms

  • House of Burgesses
  • Church of England

Examples of Anglicanism in the following topics:

  • The Anglican Class

    • It passed a law in 1632 requiring uniformity among the Anglican congregations of the colony.
    • This allowed devout Anglicans to lead an active and sincere religious life apart from the unsatisfactory formal church services.
    • Baptists, German Lutherans, and Presbyterians funded their own ministers and favored disestablishment of the Anglican Church.
    • The Patriots, led by Thomas Jefferson, disestablished the Anglican Church in 1786.
    • Government and college officials in the capital at Williamsburg were required to attend services at this Anglican church.
  • Social Classes in the Colonies

    • Unlike Europe, where aristocratic families and the established church were in control, the American political culture was open to economic, social, religious, ethnic, and geographical interests, with merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other identifiable groups taking part.
    • The plantation areas of Virginia were integrated into the vestry system of the established Anglican church.
  • Virginia

    • When the elected assembly, the House of Burgesses, was established in 1619, it enacted religious laws that made Virginia a bastion of Anglicanism.
    • It passed a law in 1632 requiring uniformity among the Anglican congregations of the colony.
    • This allowed devout Anglicans to lead an active and sincere religious life apart from the unsatisfactory formal church services.
    • Baptists, German Lutherans, and Presbyterians funded their own ministers and favored disestablishment of the Anglican Church.
    • The Patriots, led by Thomas Jefferson, disestablished the Anglican Church in 1786.
  • The Glorious Revolution in America

    • He mistreated the royal troops stationed in Boston, whose officers included Anglicans and Roman Catholics.
    • He alienated otherwise supportive Tories with his attempts to relax penal laws and faced opposition from the Anglican church hierarchy when he issued the Declaration of Indulgence.
    • James also attempted to place sympathizers in Parliament who would repeal the Test Act, which required a strict Anglican religious test for many civil offices.
  • The Great Awakening

    • Although the Great Awakening represented the first time African Americans embraced Christianity in large numbers, Anglican missionaries had long sought to convert blacks, again with the printed as well as the spoken word.
  • Evolution of Protestantism

    • During the First Great Awakening, evangelists came from the ranks of several Protestant denominations: Congregationalists, Anglicans (members of the Church of England), and Presbyterians.
    • These new churches gained converts and competed with older Protestant groups like Anglicans (members of the Church of England), Congregationalists (the heirs of Puritanism in America), and Quakers.
  • Religion in Early New England

    • One group of English people believed that the Anglican Church did not go far enough in breaking with all Roman traditions and had little hope that the Church of England would change.
    • Catholicism first came to the colonies in the form of the "Maryland Experiment," when King Charles I issued a generous charter to Lord Cecil Calvert, a prominent Catholic convert from Anglicanism, for the colony of Maryland.
    • Government and college officials in the capital at Williamsburg were required to attend services at this Anglican church.
  • The Revolution and Churches

    • The Anglican Communion was created, allowing a separated Episcopal Church of the United States that would still be in communion with the Church of England.
  • Principles of Freedom

    • Unlike Europe, where the royal court, aristocratic families, and the established church were in control, the American political culture was open to merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other identifiable groups.
  • Colonial Government

    • Merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other groups participated in local community government life.
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