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Low Churchman
[Cf. High Churchman.]
A member of the Church of England holding opinions which give a low place to the authority and claims of the episcopate and priesthood, to the inherent grace of the sacraments, and to matters of ecclesiastical organization, and thus differ relatively little from the opinions held by Protestant Nonconformists.
The term, invented as an antithesis to High Churchman, was in the early part of the 18th c. used as equivalent to latitudinarian. Afterwards it fell into disuse, but was revived in the 19th c., when the designation High Churchman had obtained a new currency as applied to those who inclined to the theology and ritual of pre-Reformation times. In this later use, Low Churchman has for the most part been viewed as equivalent to evangelical, and has rarely been applied to members of the Broad Church School.
1702Charac. Church-Man 18 He is for shewing the Low Church Men in their own proper Colours. 1703De Foe Short. Way Peace Misc. 463 We have had it Printed, with an Assurance I have wondred at, That the moderate Members of the Church of England, call'd Low Church Men, are worse than the Dissenters. 1708Phenix II. Pref. 13 It shows the first rise of that party which were afterwards called Latitudinarians, and are at this day our ‘Low-Churchmen’. 1710H. Bedford Vind. Ch. Eng. 132 He..is known to be so wretched a low Churchman, as to dispute all the Articles of the Christian Faith. a1715Burnet Own Time (1734) II. 347 All [of the clergy] that treated the Dissenters with temper and moderation..were called Low Churchmen. 1845Bp. Wilberforce in A. R. Ashwell Life (1879) I. 314 Taking as your prominent subject..Baptismal Regeneration, and its side against Low Churchmen.
Hence Low-ˈChurchmanism = Low-Churchism.
1829[see High-Churchmanism]. |