Anglican Evangelicals: Protestant Secessions from the Via Media, C. 1800-1850

Most significant study... Specialists of the nineteenth century will greatly value this book, and the general reader will gain much insight into the personalities and issues of the secessionists.'The first comprehensive survey of groups which have received much less attention than the more famous high church seceders to Rome.' -Henry Rack, Times Literary SupplementThis study examines the major themes and personalities which influenced the outbreak of a number of Evangelical secessions from the Church of England and Ireland during the first half of the nineteenth century. Though the number of secessions was relatively small their influence was considerable, especially in highlighting in embarrassing fashion the tensions between the evangelical conversionist imperative and the principles of a national religious establishment.