Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Mark Chapman

Author:Mark Chapman [Chapman, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

To add insult to injury, the government sought to amalgamate a number of Irish bishoprics primarily on pragmatic grounds, since in parts of Ireland there were virtually no Anglicans. But there were higher principles at stake: what right had an assembly that now comprised dissenters and Roman Catholics to legislate in matters affecting the United Church of England and Ireland? How could successors of the apostles themselves be abolished by a human state? This led to John Keble’s charge of National Apostasy in his sermon before the judges of the Oxford assizes in the University Church of 14 July 1833, which John Henry Newman marked as the beginning of the Oxford Movement: ‘As a Christian nation she is also part of the Christian Church, and in all her legislation and policy bound by the fundamental rules of the church.’ The 1833 measure was an outrageous affront to the rights of the church, a society ‘built upon the Apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone’. If the state was no longer to defend the church, the logic ran, then it was the duty of the church to defend itself.

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