Comments on Anglican Centrist: John Adams and the Bishop of Pennsylvania

I was interested to read your piece. I am hoping t...

2008-04-10T03:47:00.000-07:00

I was interested to read your piece. I am hoping to research the efforts of Archbishop Moore to change the law so that White and Provoost could be consecrated without taking an oath of loyalty to the king. (An early retirement project for me)
Moore gets a poor press as being one of the dullest of latitudinarians, but I think that in this he shows a good deal of courage and determination. He is one of two Archbishops of Canterbury connected to one of the churches I serve, and I find him a much more interesting and perspicacious character than another product of the place, one G Whitfield.

That paper traces the difference between high and ...

2008-04-09T11:46:00.000-07:00

That paper traces the difference between high and low going way back before Oxford movement.

It can be found online here:

http://anglicanhistory.org/essays/jones.pdf

Marshall,Thanks for your comment. But actually, n...

2008-04-09T11:44:00.000-07:00

Marshall,

Thanks for your comment. But actually, no. The division between 'High' and 'Low' went way, way, way back before the Oxford movement and ritualistic controversy came to a head in the mid-19th century.

I trace the roots of it in my paper

The Baptismal Regeneration Controversy...

Todd,I am not a descendant of Malachi Jones -- our...

2008-04-09T11:43:00.000-07:00

Todd,

I am not a descendant of Malachi Jones -- our Jones line was in Eastern Virginia until they went to Kentucky in 1782 for the Battle of Blue Licks -- and remained there.

I appreciate your distinction of positions within ...

2008-04-09T10:55:00.000-07:00

I appreciate your distinction of positions within the Episcopal Church even at its inception. You might, though, consider that that preceded by some time Keble's Assizes Sermon and the "Tracts for the Times." I can well imagine that Connecticut and New York churches were more formal in their worship, but I doubt they would have used or even understood the phrase "High Church" in any way like we would.

You wouldn't happen to be a descendant of the Rev....

2008-04-09T10:51:00.000-07:00

You wouldn't happen to be a descendant of the Rev. Malachi Jones of Abingdon, PA, d. 1714, would you?

He was a Welsh Congregationalist minister who immigrated to PA and founded Abingdon Presbyerian Church, which is still in existence.

He played a minor, but noteworthy, role in the early history of the Presbyterian church.

He was also my sixth great grandfather, which is why I know so much about him.