Low Church
Lower Church (English is the name given to one of the three doctrinal tendencies within the Church of England and other Anglican churches , with the " High Church "and" Broad Church. "At Originally it is a term of distinction designed to be pejorative Historical Use The term was used in the first part of the eighteenth century as the equivalent of " latitudinal ", that is to say a person who is willing to grant some latitude in matters of discipline and faith, as opposed to" High Churchmen "the High Church clergy, expression designating those who strongly support the authority of the established church, the bishop and the sacramental system. The positions of the Lower Church coincided with those of the Puritans , the non-conformist and independent of the Church of England. In contemporary usage, the "Low Church" put more emphasis than the "High Church" on the nature Protestant Anglicanism in Unions and attempts of unions between the Anglican and Protestant churches In 1947, the Church of South India was born from the merger of the southern provinces of the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon ( Anglican ) Church of the Methodist of South India, and United Church of South India (formed by the merger of churches Reformed , Presbyterian and Congregational ). During the 1990s, some churches Pentecostals and Baptists joined the Church. In 1970, the Church of North India is also created through the merger of Anglican and Protestant churches, namely the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon, the Church of the Brethren in India, Baptist Churches in northern India, the Methodist Church and United Church of North India. In 1972, the General Synod of the Church of England refused the union with the Methodist Church of Great Britain. The reasons lie mainly in the question of recognition of women Methodist ministers and the fear of Anglo-Catholics, that the union with the Protestant churches away from union with Rome. In 1978, was created the Churches' Council for Covenanting which included ten proposals from ten years earlier by the "Commission for Unity Churches." The five member churches were Church of England, the Methodist Church of Great Britain, the United Reformed Church (Presbyterian and Congregational churches combined), the Moravian Church and the Churches of Christ (which joined the URC 1981). Catholics and Baptists have declined the offer because of their disagreement with the term "covenant" (agreement in English, but its meaning in biblical covenant). The CCC in 1980 published a set of proposals under the title Towards Visible Unity: Proposals for a Covenant. If the agreement were churches should recognize the other, their departments, practice inter-communion, ordination, baptism, confirmation and reception of members according to common rites. The churches should decide to act in consultation and seeking visible unity of all Christians. If the CCC was to completion, it would mean a longer or shorter period the organic union of Churches . The Church of England is also linked to the Methodist Church at the URC and Baptist churches in "Local Ecumenical Projects (LEPs) or Local Ecumenical Projects involving a sharing of churches and schools. In 2002, the Church of Ireland , which, while relying on high church churches among its members, is among the most low church Churches spectrum of the Anglican Communion, has signed a "covenant" for better cooperation with Methodist Church of Ireland (both churches cover the whole island) and the idea of a potential unit . Modern Use
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