[Magdalen] Anglican Evangelicals.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

post revolution the Methodists  were the hot new kids on the block...
Lynn

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From: "Charles Wohlers" <charles.wohlers at verizon.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 2:01 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Anglican Evangelicals.

> As David says, Evangelicals are much less common in the Episcopal Church 
> than they are in the C of E, but the reasons go back farther than what he 
> mentions and have very little to do with the Reformed Episcopal Church 
> (still a tiny denomination).
>
> Unlike England, few places in the U. S. were ever dominated by the 
> Anglican Church - the Southern colonies being the main exception. Partly 
> because of the Anglican association with the Loyalist cause during the 
> Revolution, its successor (the Episcopal Church) didn't expand much 
> immediately after the Revolution. The group which mainly benefitted from 
> this was the Methodists, who increased tremendously in those years. So, 
> I'd say that those who might have been Episcopal Evangelicals are today 
> Methodists, which (unlike in England) is much, much bigger than the 
> Episcopal Church.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
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> From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 2:07 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Anglican Evangelicals.
>
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>
> Martin -
>
> I was interested in your identifying yourself as an "Evangelical"
> Anglican.
>
> As a group, "Evangelicals" at least in the British sense, are a  trifle
> exotic for USA Episcopalians, because this element, or at least the
> extreme portion of that element left TEC in the nineteenth century
> over what was their horror over "creeping catholicism"
> from the new (then) Oxford Movement, and what was regarded as
> over-cosiness of the Evangelicals and Reformed Christians from
> the Anglocatholic side.
>
> So, TEC doesn't have the extreme low church Evangelicals.  They
> are simply to be found in the Reformed Episcopal Church.
>
> Just to set the matter straight, I am curious to how you view the
> situation in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney (Australia).
>
>
>
> David Strang.