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Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century: The Life and Thought of William Stevens, 1732–1807, written by Robert M. Andrews

Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century: The Life and Thought of... (Leiden: Brill, 2015), xiv + 312 pp. isbn 9789004293779 (hbk). €126.00.The Anglican High Churchmanship of the long eighteenth century is often treated, like the Anglo-Catholicism that supplanted it, as a largely clerical phenomenon. One aim of this important study of William Stevens – the first since J.A. Park’s hagiographical Memoirs (1812) – is to emphasize the importance of lay High Churchmanship. The tradition of ‘lay activists’, including Henry Dodwell, Robert Nelson, and Samuel Johnson, which Robert Andrews traces deserves more attention. Nelson, for example, is little known today, yet Johnson claimed that his 1704 Companion for the Festivals and Fasts ‘had the greatest sale of any book ever printed in England, except the Bible’. Nelson and Dodwell were Nonjurors who returned to the Established Church in 1710, while Johnson passed on the Nonjurors’ spiritual tradition. Then as now, laypeople could move between separated groupings, facilitating communication, much more easily than clergy. Andrews also cites a significant number of women, some of whom feminist historians have been determined to present, despite their Tory High Churchmanship, as ‘proto-feminists’. To his list might be added Susanna Wesley, who left her mark on history through the ministry of the sons she raised in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ecclesiology Brill

Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century: The Life and Thought of William Stevens, 1732–1807, written by Robert M. Andrews

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Ecclesiology , Volume 13 (2): 3 – May 23, 2017
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(Leiden: Brill, 2015), xiv + 312 pp. isbn 9789004293779 (hbk). €126.00.The Anglican High Churchmanship of the long eighteenth century is often treated, like the Anglo-Catholicism that supplanted it, as a largely clerical phenomenon. One aim of this important study of William Stevens – the first since J.A. Park’s hagiographical Memoirs (1812) – is to emphasize the importance of lay High Churchmanship. The tradition of ‘lay activists’, including Henry Dodwell, Robert Nelson, and Samuel Johnson, which Robert Andrews traces deserves more attention. Nelson, for example, is little known today, yet Johnson claimed that his 1704 Companion for the Festivals and Fasts ‘had the greatest sale of any book ever printed in England, except the Bible’. Nelson and Dodwell were Nonjurors who returned to the Established Church in 1710, while Johnson passed on the Nonjurors’ spiritual tradition. Then as now, laypeople could move between separated groupings, facilitating communication, much more easily than clergy. Andrews also cites a significant number of women, some of whom feminist historians have been determined to present, despite their Tory High Churchmanship, as ‘proto-feminists’. To his list might be added Susanna Wesley, who left her mark on history through the ministry of the sons she raised in

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Published: May 23, 2017

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