Anglican Church

Growing up Anglican , she was intensely or excessively religious as an adolescent. Her beliefs began to alter when her reading led her to perceive a parallel between the stories of the Bible and those...

She asserted that she had never been a believing Christian, though she was steeped in the music and architecture of Anglicanism and the culture of Christianity in general. She voiced her adult beliefs as:...

Although she was baptised in the Church ofEngland , SW was remarkable for her principled empathy and personal friendships with Dissenters . The Feminist Companion calls her an evangelical; Jack Simmons , in his...

Her upbringing in a professional, Tory, English family was surprisingly unconventional: she was encouraged to roam freely with her brother, to read widely . . . and forbidden to wear restrictive clothing. Although her father...

Trained at home in prayers learned by heart, with some scope for improvising, and given a religious grounding in Anglican ism at school,ES realised that she was not an irreligious person only...

Her family is called respectable, which may have implied membership of the middling ranks, and she was baptised into the Anglican church.

AC belonged by birth and marriage to the English upper classes, though many of her friends and associates came from signficantly lower down the social scale. Her rationalism and quietism made her an eccentric Anglican

ME wrote that she hated many of the forms of Christianity and other religions . . . . because of the sacrifice at the centre of them—the sacrificial blood. This hatred was connected with her...

Irish in origin, the Harkness family belonged to a long line of Anglican clergymen. They had aristocratic connections—through MH 's paternal grandfather's marriage—reaching back to the time of Edward I, although they were not particularly...

Leaving Olney as a widow, JJ wrote with an evident sense of moral righteousness of her conservative resistance to AnglicanEvangelicalism . I made a strong proof of my Courage, made a Bold Stand against...

JCM was confirmed in the Church of England by Thomas Secker , probably at St James's, Piccadilly, having apparently not received this sacrament as a child.

One of her students, however, remembered her as combining Socialism with High Anglicanism : a person full of awe for the unknown and unknowable.

Born into the Protestant Anglo-Irish ascendancy (of a family with close ties on both sides to the Anglican, that is Protestant, Church ofIreland ), JMS grew up in his mother's atmosphere of Calvinistic fervour. He...

Born into the professional middle class, NRS had a Welsh mother and an English father. An obituarist wrote: She had Welsh mysticism and Yorkshire good sense in her veins. She became a central and well-known...

Brought up in the Church of England , she left the church in the Restoration period, with her stepfather and the rest of her family, to become a Dissenter . She remembered that she was...