The concept of our
established Church is occasionally misunderstood and, I believe, commonly under-appreciated"
Successive wars against the Catholic Bourbon powers of Europe and the British colonists of North America cracked intra-Protestant fissures wide open, catalyzed the rehabilitation of Catholicism in England, enabled the dramatic growth of Protestant nonconformity, and corroded the theoretical and legal ties which bound together the
established church and state (286).
Joseph Sturge declared in all honesty (and with some heat) that he loathed the
Established Church and could hardly campaign for its overthrow in his private life, but swear fealty to it as a councillor.
Dissent from the
established church was not chiefly doctrinal.
Orajel production is expected to be integrated into
established Church & Dwight facilities by the end of 2009.
Many states, from conservative Virginia to happy-go-lucky Nevada, already insist you be affiliated with a "regularly
established church or congregation" to be qualified to OK a marriage contract.
They all faced the strength and structure of the
established church, and some of them met a violent death.
As Arminianism triumphed under Charles I, it rekindled Puritan opposition to the
established church.
Hence, those who choose to dissent from
established Church teaching and who are committed to sowing the seeds of dissent, such as teachers and professors employed by a Catholic educational institution, are anything but peacemakers.
And yet, Dorothy, a Bible-reader and a favorite of radical preachers roaming the countryside, read the Bible; something in her readings made her think that she had the right to worship as she felt called by God and that she could defy the
established church and the state to attain that right legally.
I would like to comment, though, about his statement that the Great Awakening "seeded" the "revolutionary idea" of religious opposition to an
established church and royal tyranny.
In Training, this hostility is focused in the form of a charge that the
Established Church has become a form of blasphemy.
