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Anglo-Catholicism
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Anglo-Catholicism

In the Anglican Church, the Catholic heritage of faith and liturgical practice which was stressed by the founders of the Oxford Movement. The term was first used in 1838 to describe the movement, which began in the wake of pressure from the more Protestant wing of the Church of England. Since the Church of England voted in 1992 to ordain women as priests, some Anglo-Catholics have found it difficult to remain within the Church of England.



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The first, Boston Bohemia 1881-1900, chronicled Cram's surprisingly varied early career as writer, historian, medievalist, architect, Japanophile, critic and polemicist (often in the high Anglican interest).
The Great Goth by Davey, Peter / The Architectural Review
The Crown, notably Elizabeth and the early Stuarts, backed by high Anglican bishops, wished them to be set apart by their daily dress, ritual vestments and style of life, and to serve the state as channels of royal propaganda and control, while the more democratic tendency represented by the Puritans emphasised their preaching rather than their sacerdotal function for a laity who were their own mediators with God.
The Professions in Early Modem England, 1450-1800: Servants of the ... by Perkin, Harold / Journal of Social History
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