Huntington's Quadrilateral—A Critical Study

1970 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-211
Author(s):  
John F. Woolverton
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Church Unity

Over one hundred years have passed since the conception in 1865 of what became known as the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral. This statement of Episcopalian, ecumenical principles was conceived by William R. Huntington (1838–1909), acknowledged leader of the denomination's House of Deputies, liturgical scholar, and “first presbyter” of his generation.1 Huntington was inspired by the national disunity of the Civil War years and by the reunion of the states in 1865 to seek some means of uniting the country's churches. At the same time he recognized that the Episcopal church stood in need reform if it were to serve in any way whatever as an agent of reconciliation. The result was the famous Quadrilateral. Its author designed his proposal both as a statement of “the true Anglican position” and as a basis for church unity, soon to be expressed, it was hoped, in a comprehensive, national church for America.

An Exilic Church

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse A. Zink
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Church Growth ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Church Missionary Society ◽  
Peace And Reconciliation ◽  
The Church

The Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan (ECSSS) has been shaped by the experience of exile. A half-century of Anglican mission by the Church Missionary Society produced a Church that was of varied strength across the region. Two lengthy civil wars since Sudan’s independence displaced hundreds of thousands of southern Sudanese and led to Church growth, as refugees turned to Christianity in new ways. This was particularly true of the Dinka, southern Sudan’s largest ethnic group, who had long been uninterested in Christianity. In the midst of civil war in the 1980s and 1990s, Dinka showed new interest in Christianity and the Church exploded with growth. Church hierarchies have been tested by civil war, managing relations with rebel armies and governments, while also working for peace and reconciliation. The challenge for the ECSSS is to move from being a Church of the exiled to a Church of the returned.

Religion in Times of War and Republic, 1642–60

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Eales
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Religious Dissent ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
Personal Rule ◽  
Local Leaders

Religious debate was central to the revolutionary politics of the 1640s and 1650s. One area of disagreement between Charles I and the Long Parliament concerned the nature and structure of the English national Church: whether bishops should be abolished in line with the Calvinist reformed Churches of the continent and if the religious changes of Charles’ Personal Rule were legal. From 1640 puritan demands for religious reform led to a proliferation of modes of worship ranging from Scottish-style Presbyterianism to independent congregations headed by charismatic local leaders who generated fears of heresy. The civil war sects were so loosely organized that most did not survive the Restoration of 1660, when the re-establishment of the episcopal Church 1660 was welcomed by the Royalists. However, a powerful legacy of religious dissent allowed groups such as the Quakers and Baptists to persist and flourish.

Dancing with Jim Crow: The Chattanooga Embarrassment of the Methodist Episcopal Church

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-173
Author(s):  
Paul W. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Racial Equality ◽  
Methodist Episcopal ◽  
The South ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Methodist Episcopal Church ◽  
Heated Debate

AbstractAfter the Civil War, northern Methodists undertook a successful mission to recruit a biracial membership in the South. Their Freedmen's Aid Society played a key role in outreach to African Americans, but when the denomination decided to use Society funds in aid of schools for Southern whites, a national controversy erupted over the refusal of Chattanooga University to admit African Americans. Caught between a principled commitment to racial brotherhood and the pressures of expediency to accommodate a growing white supremacist commitment to segregation, Methodists engaged in an agonized and heated debate over whether schools intended for whites should be allowed to exclude blacks. Divisions within the leadership of the Methodist Episcopal Church caught the attention of the national press and revealed the limits of even the most well-intentioned efforts to advance racial equality in the years after Reconstruction.

The Family and Community That Shaped Burleigh’s Youth

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean E. Snyder
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Church Music ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
The Family ◽  
English Spelling

This chapter examines the family and community that shaped Harry T. Burleigh's youth. In the early 1860s, as the country moved toward civil war, a young Henry Thacker Burley (the family used the “Burley” spelling during his lifetime but eventually changed to the English spelling, “Burleigh”) settled in Erie and threw himself into the struggle against slavery and for equal rights. On September 17, 1862, Henry and Elizabeth Lovey Waters were married. On December 12, 1866, Henry (Harry) Thacker Burleigh was born. This chapter discusses how the strong music tradition at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Erie nourished Harry's lifelong commitment to church music in general and to the Episcopal Church in particular. It also considers Elizabeth's marriage to John Edgar Elmendorf after Henry. It shows that Burleigh's most profound influence in his formative years was his strong family, for whom education was a primary value. Through his public and business education in Erie, Harry T. Burleigh developed the skills and the confidence that facilitated his entry into New York City's broader public arena.

The War Came

2008 ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
John Roy Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Church

This chapter details John Roy Lynch's experience when the American Civil War came. Both Mr. and Mrs. Davis had the reputation of being kind to their slaves. It was under Mrs. Davis's tutelage and influence that Lynch became attached to the Protestant Episcopal church and he was to be confirmed and baptized on the bishop's next visit to Natchez, which was to be made the latter part of 1861. But the war broke out in the meantime, the blockade preventing the bishop from reaching Natchez. During and for a long time after the war, Lynch seldom attended services at an Episcopal church, but attended services quite regularly at the colored churches, which were Methodist and Baptist, there being no colored Episcopal church at Natchez. Since slavery had been abolished and Lynch had reached a more mature age, he did not take kindly to the idea of occupying a prescribed seat in a white church. Hence he did not become connected with the church of his youth and choice until late in life.

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