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Anglican doctrine (also called Episcopal doctrine in some countries) is the body of Christian teachings used to guide the religious and moral practices of Anglicanism . Describing its doctrine as "Catholic and Reformed", Anglicanism has historically aimed to be a via media between Roman Catholic doctrine and Reformed Protestant doctrine, with ...
Statue of Thomas Hughes at Rugby School.Hughes's 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days did much to promote muscular Christianity throughout the English-speaking world.. Muscular Christianity is a religious movement that originated in England in the mid-19th century, characterized by a belief in patriotic duty, discipline, self-sacrifice, masculinity, and the moral and physical beauty of athleticism.
The Measure gave the General Synod the power to reform the liturgy of the Church of England. [1] The Measure was the outcome of the controversy over the use of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer , the conflict between those who wished to preserve the 1662 prayer book and those who advocated new forms of worship that employed modern language and ...
The church contained an organ dating from 1891, by William Hill & Sons, which was removed, and replaced by another from the same maker in 1906. Specifications for the latter can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. The church's current electronic organ was purchased from the Sultan of Oman in around 2012. References
Eccles. St Mary the Virgin's Church is an active Anglican parish church in Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. The church is in the Eccles deanery, the archdeaconry of Salford and the diocese of Manchester. Together with St Andrew's Eccles, St Paul's, Monton, Christ Church, Patricroft and St James', Hope the church is part of the team benefice ...
Canterbury and York Society. The Catholic League. The Children's Society. Church Army. Church Buildings Council. Church Commissioners. Church of England Men's Society. Church of England National Emergency Fund. Church Pastoral Aid Society.
Anglo-Catholic societies, also known as Catholic societies, are associations within the Anglican Communion which follow in the tradition of Anglo-Catholicism. They may be devotional or theological in nature. Many trace their origins to the Catholic revival in the Church of England which started with the Oxford Movement in the 19th century.
The west end of Selby Abbey. The Major Churches Network, founded in 1991 as the Greater Churches Network, is a group of Church of England parish churches defined as having exceptional significance, being physically very large (over 1000m 2 footprint), listed as Grade I, II* (or exceptionally II), open to visitors daily, having a role or roles beyond those of a typical parish church, and making ...