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Title High Calvinists in Action : Calvinism and the City - Manchester and London, c.1810-1860
Published Oxford Scholarship Online 2002

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Description 1 online resource (428 pages)
Contents List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: People, Places, and Theology; 1. The Development of High and Evangelical Calvinism to c.1860; 2. The Responses of British Evangelicals to the Religious and Secular Problems of the Inner City c.1810-60; 3. The Manchester Context c.1810-60; 4. William Nunn (1786-1840); 5. William Gadsby (1773-1844); 6. William McKerrow (1803-78); 7. Joseph Irons (1785-1852); 8. James Wells (1803-72); 9. Andrew Reed (1787-1862); 10. Conclusion; Appendices; 1. Charles Simeon and the Private Meeting
2. Articles of Communion, St. Clement's Friday Evening Society3. Directions for Sunday School Gatherings, Bennett Street Sunday School; 4. The Last Will of William Gadsby; 5. Articles of Faith and Practice of the Church Assembling in Grove Chapel, Camberwell; 6. Aged Pilgrims' Friend Society, 'Truths of Revelation Agreeably to Which the Society and Asylum are Conducted'; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
Summary This valuable contribution to the debate about the relation of religion to the modern city fills an important gap in the historiography of early nineteenth-century religious life. It is a pioneering study of local churches in the urban environment. Based on extensive archival research of churches in Manchester and London in the years 1810-60, it considers the work and thought of ministers who held to a high Calvinistic form of theology. Exploration of this little studied and often derided grouping reveals that their role in the religious and social life of these cities was highly active and responsive, and merits serious reappraisal. - ;This valuable contribution to the debate about the relation of religion to the modern city fills an important gap in the historiography of early nineteenth-century religious life. Although there is some evidence that strict doctrine led to a more restricted response to urban problems, extensive local and personal variations mean that simple generalizations should be avoided. Ian J. Shaw argues against earlier prejudiced views and shows that high Calvinists played a vigorous and successful part in the response of early nineteenth-century churches to the process of urbanization. The study includes six substantial case studies of ministers and their churches in Manchester and London. Four high Calvinist ministers are considered, with two studies of ministers holding to an evangelical Calvinist doctrine also included to provide instructive contrasts. Detailed social analysis of the congregations is based upon extensive use of manuscript and printed sources, sermons, and local and denominational press
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Calvinism -- England -- Manchester -- History -- 19th century
Calvinists -- England -- Manchester -- History -- 19th century
Calvinism -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
Calvinists -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
Calvinism.
Calvinists.
SUBJECT Manchester (England) -- Church history -- 19th century
London (England) -- Church history -- 19th century
Subject England -- London.
England -- Manchester.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Church history.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1282052705
9781282052703
0199250774
9780199250776