Originating amid the religious and political upheavals of seventeenth-century England, Quakers are now a geographically widespread and theologically diverse group, often best known for their peace work and for their social and political activism. Although Quakers have often not valued, and ...
Subsequent to the ‘evangelical counsels’ of the Middle Ages (which encouraged Christian believers to pursue poverty, chastity, and obedience), the adjective ‘evangelical’ has attached to ‘theology’ in various ways. Thus, ‘evangelical theology’ potentially refers to: (first) a commitment to ...
This article provides an account of Anglican theology as it emerged as a distinct tradition and ecclesial movement from within Western Catholicism, in the context of the theological and political shifts of sixteenth-century Europe. The pragmatic needs of a succession of English monarchs, al...