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REFORMED EPISCOPAL See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
CHURCH , a See also:Protestant community in the See also:United States of See also:America, dating from See also:December 1873. The See also:influence of the Tractarian See also:movement began to be See also:felt at an See also:early date in the Episcopal Church of the United States, and the ordination of See also:Arthur See also:Carey in New See also:York, See also:July 1843i a clergyman who denied that there was any difference in points of faith between the See also:Anglican and the See also:Roman Churches and considered the See also:Reformation an unjustifiable See also:act, brought into See also:relief the antagonism between See also:Low Church and High Church, a struggle which went on for a See also:generation with increasing bitterness. The High Church party lost no opportunity of arraigning any Low Churchman who conducted services in non-episcopal churches, and as the Triennial See also:Conference gave no heed to remonstrances on the See also:part of these ecclesiastical offenders they came to the conclusion that they must either crush their consciences or seek relief in separation. The See also:climax was reached when See also:George D. Cummins (1822–1876), assistant See also:bishop of See also:Kentucky, was angrily attacked for officiating at the united communion service held at the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of the See also:Sixth See also:General Conference of the Evangelical See also:Alliance in New York, See also:October 1873. This See also:prelate resigned his See also:charge in the Episcopal Church on See also:November 11th, and a See also:month later, with seven other See also:clergy-men and a See also:score of laymen, constituted the Reformed Episcopal Church. Cummins was chosen as presiding officer of the new See also:body, and consecrated See also:Charles E. Cheney (b. 1836), See also:rector of See also:Christ Church, See also:Chicago, to be bishop. The following•See also:Declaration of Principles (here abridged) was promulgated:
I. An expression of belief in the See also:Bible as the Word of See also:God, and the See also:sole See also:rule of faith and practice, in the Apostles' Creed, in the divine institution of the two sacraments and in the doctrines of See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace substantially as set out in the 39 Articles.
II. The recognition of See also:Episcopacy not as of divine right but as a very See also:ancient and desirable See also:form of church polity.
IV. A condemnation of certain positions, viz.
(a) That the Church of God exists only in one form of ecclesiastical polity.
(b) That See also:Christian ministers as distinct from all believers have any See also:special priesthood.
(c) That the See also:Lord's Table is an See also:altar on which the body and
See also:blood of Christ are offered anew to the See also:Father.
(d) That the presence of Christ is a material one.
(e) That Regeneration is inseparably connected with
See also:Baptism.
The Church recognizes no orders of See also:ministry, presbyters and deacons; the Episcopate is an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, not an See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, the bishop being the See also:chief See also:presbyter, See also:Primus inter pares. There are some 7 bishops, 85 clergy and about 9500 communicants. £1600 annually is raised for See also:foreign missionary See also:work in See also:India. The
Church was introduced into See also:England in 1877, and has in that See also:country a presiding bishop and about 20 organized congrega-
tions. The Church has a theological See also:seminary in See also:Philadelphia.
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