Disability and Demonstrating Christian Commitment

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-65
Author(s):  
Andrea Loux Jarman
Keyword(s):  
Local Church ◽  
Catchment Area ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
School Life ◽  
Admissions Policies ◽  
Church School ◽  
Christian Commitment ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Schools

Community lies at the heart of both church and school life in the Church of England. In some areas, church communities are sustained by families who choose to attend a particular church based on the quality of the church school in its parish. Many Voluntary Aided Church of England schools (church schools) give priority admission to parents on the basis of faith in the oversubscription criteria of their admission arrangements. While the Church stresses inclusiveness in its recommendations regarding admissions policies to church schools, where a church school is very popular and oversubscribed arguably priority must be given to parents of the faith in the school's catchment area. Otherwise parishioner children whose families regularly attend church could fail to be admitted to their local church school because of competition for places.

Georgian Churchmanship Reconsidered: Some Variations in Anglican Public Worship 1714–1830

1985 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. C. Mather
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Good Works ◽  
High Church ◽  
The Church ◽  
Public Worship

Current evaluation of the Church of England under the first four Georges follows in the main the assessment made by Norman Sykes in his monumental Church and State in England in the Eighteenth Century, published in 1934. According to that view the Church, which was lastingly cleared of the universal slackness previously imputed to it, exhibited a pervasive Latitudinarianism sympathetically portrayed by Sykes as ‘practical Christianity’, an emphasis on cdnduct and good works to the neglect of ‘organised churchmanship’ and the ‘mystical element’ in religion. R. W. Greaves detected similar features in the concept of ‘moderation’: suspicion of popery and friendship towards dissenters, a cult of plainness in theological explanation and a very general contempt of whatever was medieval. Historians have been willing to acknowledge as exceptions to this ‘mild’ quality of Anglican churchmanship the early Methodists and ‘small Evangelical and High Church minorities’, but only the two former have been taken seriously. Piety of a more traditional kind - rubrical, sacramental, Catholic - has been identified, only to be discounted. The Establishment has been seen in the light of the judgement recently summarised by Dr Anthony Russell: ‘Certainly the temper of the eighteenth century which favoured reason above all else, and was deeply suspicious of mysticism and the emotions, was against any form of sacramentalism.’

Ruin the Sacred Truths

2019 ◽  
pp. 670-686
Author(s):  
John Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Pastoral Poetry ◽  
Independent Churches ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

This chapter begins by reviewing the relationship between Milton and Marvell, but is devoted more expansively to their literary and intellectual ties. It examines the presence of Milton in Marvell’s pastoral poetry of the early 1650s where Marvell engages with the ‘Nativity Ode’, Comus, and ‘Lycidas’ but avoids reproducing the prophetic quality of Milton’s voice, hedging his allusiveness with delicate irony. The chapter also examines Marvell’s later engagement with Milton’s tolerationist treatises. Like Milton, Marvell is shaped by recent heterodox positions, but steers away from the boldness of the Miltonic vision. Where Milton asks the state to tolerate a variety of fully independent churches and religions, Marvell clings to the more conservative hope that the Church of England will merely include, or ‘comprehend’, a wider range of beliefs and believers. A political realist and a literary ironist, Marvell distances himself from the political idealism and prophetic literariness of Milton.

A református elemi iskolák helyzete a Komáromi Református Egyházmegyében, az 1920–30-as években

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-338
Author(s):  
Ferenc Tömösközi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Indirect Impact ◽  
School Network ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Church School ◽  
The Church ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Church Schools

Abstract. The situation of the Reformed elementary schools in the Reformed Diocese of Komárom in the 1920s–1930s. The present study provides an insight into the history of the Reformed church schools of the Reformed Diocese of Komárom in the territory of Czechoslovakia between the two world wars. Following geopolitical changes after 1920, the church school network had to be reorganized, which posed completely new challenges to the minority Reformed Church. Subsequent to presentation of the major school laws, the development of the diocesan school network is discussed. After the reorganization, teachers had to face a lot of grievances from state officials, which had a direct and indirect impact on both teachers and the educational policy of the Reformed Church. After outlining the problems of textbooks for use in schools, the diocesan schooling of the two decades under review is summarized. Keywords: Reformed Church, schools, school network, teacher, textbook

scholarly journals Assessing the Ethos of Anglican Primary Schools in Wales: The Student Voice Project

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Leslie J. Francis ◽  
David W. Lankshear ◽  
Emma L. Eccles
Keyword(s):  
Student Voice ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Inspection System ◽  
School Inspection ◽  
School Life ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
Church School ◽  
The Church ◽  
Do So

Abstract Since the Anglican Church in England and Wales began to build schools long before the state developed machinery to do so, around a quarter of all primary schools remain connected with the Anglican Church. The church school inspection system maintains that Anglican schools have a distinctive ethos. The Student Voice Project argues that school ethos is generated by the implicit collective values, beliefs and behaviours of the students, and was designed to give explicit voice to the students in response to six specific areas of school life identified by the Anglican school inspection criteria as relevant to school ethos. Drawing on data provide by 8,111 year-five and year-six students attending Church in Wales primary schools, the present study reports on the six ethos measures and on significant differences reported by female and male students, and by year-five and year-six students.

The Church of Ireland: a critical bibliography, 1536–1992 PartV: 1800–1870

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (112) ◽  
pp. 369-376
Author(s):  
Fergus O’Ferrall
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Church Of Ireland ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Church

The ‘United Church of England and Ireland’, established by the Act of Union ‘for ever’ as ‘an essential and fundamental part of the Union’, survived less than seventy years. N. D. Emerson, in his 1933 essay on the church in this period, presented the history of the church in the first half of the nineteenth century as ‘the history of many separate interests and movements’; he suggested a thesis of fundamental importance in the historiography of the Church of Ireland: Beneath the externals of a worldly Establishment, and behind the pomp of a Protestant ascendancy, was the real Church of Ireland, possessed of a pure and reformed faith more consciously grasped as the century advanced and labouring to present its message in the face of apathy and discouragement, as well as of more active and hostile opposition.Recent historical work has begun to trace the ‘many separate interests and movements’ and to explore in detail both the ‘worldly Establishment’ and the increasingly predominant evangelical influence of the Church of Ireland during the post-union period. The main topics investigated have been the structure of the church, the political relationships of the church, the evangelical movement, the mentalities of various social groups (drawing upon literary sources), and local or regional studies. The numerous gaps in the research and in our knowledge which exist seem now all the starker given the high quality of so many recent studies concerning the Church of Ireland in this period.

The ‘Quality of Mercy’ in Probation Practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 195-216
Author(s):  
Lol Burke
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Probation Service ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Church

The creation of the Probation Service in England and Wales could be seen as an expression of public theology in action. The evangelism of Victorian life was an important factor in shaping the early practices of probation through the work of the Police Court Missionaries, employed by the Church of England Temperance Society. In his seminal quartet of essays, Bill McWilliams describes the period 1876-1936 as one of ‘special pleading’ (McWilliams 1983:129-147). ‘Mercy’ was the concept which provided the key to understanding the missionaries’ place in the courts, and in particular their social enquiry practice. Mercy stood between the offender, the missionary and the sentencer, and it was mercy which made sense of their relationships. In this chapter the author considers if the concept of mercy still has salience in contemporary probation practice and argues for a re-assertion of the humanitarian sentiments that guided the early work of the Police Court Missionaries.

Was Frederick Denison Maurice A Broad-Churchman?

1934 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-231
Author(s):  
Charles Richard Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Church School ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Satisfactory Answer ◽  
The Church

Although Frederick Denison Maurice, from about 1853 until his death in 1872, was frequently spoken of as a member of the Broad-Church school in the Church of England, and was considered by some of his contemporaries both the founder of that school and the greatest of the Broad-Churchmen, and although he is today usually referred to as a leader of the Broad-Church movement, his relation to it was not simple. He himself steadfastly refused to accept the label of “Broad-Churchman” for himself and to admit the need for a Broad-Church party. What the school stood for is as elusive of definition, furthermore, as his own thought was complex. Yet the question, in spite of its difficulty, is well worth going into, since its exploration serves to illustrate not only the difference between conservatism and liberalism, but also the differences between some of the forms of liberalism within itself. A satisfactory answer to the question would also do much to make clear the meaning and the nature of the Broad-Church movement.

Anglican Religious Societies, Organizations, and Missions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Manning
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Critical Survey ◽  
General Reader ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Church

This chapter provides the first critical survey of those societies that worked under the rubric of the Church of England over the course of its ‘long eighteenth century’. Transcending a scholarly focus on the voluntary quality of such groups and challenging more general assumptions about the supposedly areligious nature of ‘enlightened’ sociability and learning, it shows how the Church of England revitalized its authority by utilizing extra-parochial societies to reconstitute its relationship with its national and international communion. As a reference work, the chapter seeks to inform the general reader whilst guiding specialists towards new lines of enquiry. But its insights into societies such as the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge underscore the extent to which ‘Anglican religious societies’ actively shaped the wider history of the English-speaking world.

The Fate of Parochial Schools in 1917 (Based on the Materials of the Kostroma Diocese)

2020 ◽  
pp. 188-207
Author(s):  
Ферапонт Кашин
Keyword(s):  
School System ◽  
Parochial Schools ◽  
October Revolution ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Church School ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Schools

В статье на примере Костромской епархии рассматриваются события 1917 г., связанные с положением церковных учебных заведений - школ грамоты, одно и двухклассных церковно-приходских школ, второклассных и церковно-учительских школ. Описываются переживавшиеся церковно-школьной системой трудности и попытки их разрешения, излагаются обстоятельства передачи церковных школ в ведение Министерства народного просвещения и их упразднения после Октябрьского переворота. Делается вывод о том, что система церковно-приходских школ не оправдала общественных надежд не только из-за низкой профессиональной подготовки учителей, как полагают современные учёные, но и из-за её чрезмерной зависимости от государственного финансирования, что сделало церковные учебные заведения беззащитными перед лицом вначале религиозно-безразличного, а затем агрессивно-безбожного правительства. The article considers (on the example from the Kostroma diocese) the events of 1917 associated with the situation of church educational institutions - literacy schools, one- and two-year parochial schools, two classes and church-teacher schools. It describes the difficulties met by the church-school system and the attempts to resolve them. The article sets out the circumstances of the transfer of church schools to the Ministry of Education and their abolition after the October Revolution.

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