Essays Tagged: "Anglican Communion"

The Influence that Christianity had on Public Morality and education in Australia throughout the years of 1788-1901.

ed to introduce government schools based on the national system in his native Ireland. However, non-Anglican Protestants, who had formed in 1835 a society for promoting schools where the Bible would b ... the Governor's proposal, which further angered the Protestants. The successive alliance between the Anglicans and the Protestant denominations favourably brought about an anti-Catholic move to condemn ...

(10 pages) 77 0 3.4 Jul/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

General Info on the Church of England or Anglican Church in Australia and The acts of Parliament that helped and hindered the settlement.

Church of England or Anglican Church, the Christian church in England, dating from the introduction of Christianity into ... Henry VIII.A National ChurchThe acts of Parliament between 1529 and 1536 mark the beginning of the Anglican church as a national church independent of papal jurisdiction. Henry VIII, vexed at the ref ... death, the influences of religious reform were felt more strongly in England, and in 1549 the first Anglican Book of Common Prayer was published and its use required of the English clergy by an Act of ...

(6 pages) 57 1 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

The law concerning civil unions and gay marriage

onvention, called the actions examples of American arrogance and said they would disrupt the global Anglican Communion and severely harm ecumenical relations with Orthodox churches, the Roman Catholic ... dox churches, the Roman Catholic Church, and others (Heinen, 2003). "The reaction from all over the Anglican Communion, especially Africa and Asia, has been very strong negatively," White said, "I'm n ...

(9 pages) 192 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Same sex unions within the Episcopal Church

nd lesbians"--a choice the committee states it made out of sensitivity to "cross-cultural issues of Anglican Communion"--the report drew rebukes for its recommendations not only against rites of bless ... nventions, called the actions examples of American arrogance and said they would disrupt the global Anglican Communion and severely harm ecumenical relations with Orthodox churches, the Roman Catholic ...

(5 pages) 29 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Homosexuals in the Church

" at previous triennial conventions, setting up a schism between the Episcopal Church and the World Anglican Communion, and prompting a growing number of Bishops, both domestic and international, to v ... Bishops have declared the U.S. a mission field for reseeding, and several Archbishops in the World Anglican Communion have been ordaining American Bishops and Priests under their authority since 1997 ...

(1 pages) 36 1 2.3 Oct/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Urbanization in Toronto (can be applied to basically any city in north america)

the church would look like it was from the people and not from the rich. St Matthias is an English Anglican church it was one of the first Anglican churches to have no restrictions to who came and th ...

(13 pages) 39 1 4.3 Jan/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History

Church.

An Anglican Church commission rebuked the Episcopal Church USAyesterday for ordaining an openly gay bis ... ssingsame-sex unions, and called for a moratorium on both practices "untilsome new consensus in the Anglican Communion emerges."In a report issued in London, the commission asked the Episcopal Churcht ... , the commission asked the Episcopal Churchto apologize for causing pain and division in the global AnglicanCommunion, the second largest church body in the world, with 77 millionmembers in 164 countr ...

(5 pages) 46 0 1.8 Oct/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

Sacred Scriptures and Cosmogny

nd practices among various wings of Christianity: Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox churches, the Anglican Communion and the tens of thousands of Protestant faith groups" (Religious Tolerance). Desp ...

(8 pages) 43 1 3.7 Aug/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Anglican Church

Origin of the Anglican Church The word Anglican means "of England", but the Anglican Church exists around th ... hurch exists around the world. The Anglican Church was formed by King Henry the Eighth in 1534. The Anglican Church was formed by slightly changing the Catholic system of religion, meaning that the An ... a sect of the Catholic Religion with many similarities of beliefs and prayers. The act that set the Anglican Religion as an official religion is called the Act of Supremacy. The Anglican Church was se ...

(5 pages) 19 0 3.0 May/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Outline the ethical teachings of Anglicanism with some reference to other Chrsitian denominations.

The word 'Anglican' originates from "ecclesia anglicana" a Medieval Latin phrase, dating to at least 1246 mean ... lesia anglicana" a Medieval Latin phrase, dating to at least 1246 meaning 'the English Church'. The Anglican Church dates back to the year 1538.Anglican ethical perspectives share similarities with Pr ... es with Protestant and Catholic approaches, but they also have a particular character of their own. Anglican ethical tradition also draws on several central Christian beliefs held in common with Catho ...

(5 pages) 10 0 5.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Religion in Britain

Church of EnglandThere are two established or state churches in Britain: the Church of England, or Anglican Church as it is also called, and the Church of Scotland, or 'Kirk'. In 1533 the English kin ... rch. It might pose a constitutional crisis, but is less likely to be one for the Church. The senior Anglican cleric, the Archbishop of Canterbury, crowns the monarch but if the monarch renounced Supre ...

(21 pages) 31 1 4.5 Mar/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith