Foundation for revival : Anthony Horneck, the religious societies, and the construction of an Anglician pietism / Scott Thomas Kisker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kisker, Scott Thomas, 1967-

Series:

Revitalization: explorations in world Christian movements

Pietist and Wesleyan studies ; no. 24.

Pietist and Wesleyan studies ; no. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.

Horneck, Anthony.

Pietism.

Church history.

Anglican Communion.

Physical Description:

xxix, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008.

Summary:

Anthony Horneck (1641-1697) is a key figure for the migration of the continental Pietist sensibilities into Restoration Anglicanism and ultimately Methodism. Horneck was educated at Heidelberg and Leiden in Germany and then immigrated to England in 1661, the year of the Restoration. He became a committed Anglican, but his life and ministry were influenced by his early experience with continental Pietism: He preached salvation, avoided disputes over nonessentials, and-most significantly-organized religious societies of awakened souls, beginning in 1678. the rules Horneck drew up for these societies bear many of the marks of continental Pietism and laid the foundation for philanthropic and revivalist movements in England. At Horneck's death, a number of religious societies were located in and around London. For the next twenty years they expanded throughout the city and surrounding counties, profoundly affecting Anglican piety. By the 1720s their network provided the matrix of relationships through which Moravians (a continental Pietist group) and Oxoford Methodists met in what became the Anglo-evangelical revival. In the 1730s and '40s these societies enabled Methodism's rapid spread and were united into a new movement-anglican Pietism.

Foundation for Revival provides insight into the complex religious world of Restoration piety-blurring some of the rigid distinctions between Puritans and Anglicans. By combining Restoration, high church piety, and Pietist sensibilities concerning personal regeneration, Horneck provided a theological emancipation from the usual categories defining evangelical Christianity. Horneck's life also reveals an early, and generally overlooked, link between continental versions of Pietism and English evangelicalism, both of which form the basis for the development of mission and philanthropic institutions in England and the rise of Reformed and Wesleyan Methodism. Finally, Horneck helped to clarify many of the 'contradictions' in the piety of the young John Wesley, providing the appropriate historic background and precedent for Wesley's theological journey and uniquely Anglican evangelicalism.

Contents:

Pietistic Christianity in Protestant England (1549-1662)

A pious cleric in search of a country

An Anglican pietist experiment

Unsettled times

A pious revolution

From religious societies to united societies

An Anglican pietism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236).

ISBN:

9780810857995

0810857995

OCLC:

174500849