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Broad Church
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broad church
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en broad church
Proper noun
Broad Church
en Anglicanism The movement to latitudinarian churchmanship in the Church of England; collectively, those people engaged in the movement.
en 1989 M. A. Crowther Church Problems and Church Parties Gerald Parsons Religion in Victorian Britain IV: Interpretations http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GG6uQFDq4tMC&pg=PA19&dq=%22broad+church%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zx4IT5CIIKfNmQWcvr2BAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22broad%20church%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 19 Hampden contributed nothing to the theology of his time and specifically rejected the Broad Church in the 1860s.
en 2009 Herbert Schlossberg Conflict and Crisis in the Religious Life of Late Victorian England 9 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=IRf3knel_P4C&pg=PA9&dq=%22broad+church%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qiQIT4eYLOWviQfO1MiWCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22broad%20church%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false The first Broad Church, in her view, included Coleridge, Arnold, Kingsley, and Maurice, and was spiritual in the same way as the Evangelicals.
en 2011 Keith Robbins Political and Legal Perspectives 62 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Lvn31g3oaUkC&pg=PA62&dq=%22broad+church%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qiQIT4eYLOWviQfO1MiWCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22broad%20church%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false Mid-nineteenth-century Anglican Broad Church thinkers included such figures as FD Maurice, AC Tait, AP Stanley, Benjamin Jowett, and Charles Kingsley. There was also a Broad Church movement (sometimes referred to as ‘liberal evangelical’) in Scotland,which included James Robertson, John Tulloch, John Caird and Norman MacLeod.