By Dale A. Johnson
This booklet addresses numerous dimensions of the transformation of English Nonconformity over the process a huge century in its background. It starts with the query of schooling for ministry, contemplating the actions undertaken through 4 significant evangelical traditions (Congregationalist, Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian) to set up theological faculties for this objective, after which takes up the advanced three-way courting of ministry/churches/colleges that advanced from those actions. As writer Dale Johnson illustrates, this evolution got here to have major implications for the Nonconformist engagement with its message and with the tradition at huge. those implications are investigated in chapters at the altering notion or knowing of ministry itself, non secular authority, theological questions (such because the doctrines of God and the atonement), and spiritual identity.
In Johnson's exploration of those concerns, conversations approximately those themes can be found essentially in addresses at denominational conferences, meetings that took up particular questions, and consultant spiritual and theological courses of the day that participated in key debates or recommended contentious positions. whereas getting to a few very important denominational alterations, The altering form of English Nonconformity, 1825-1925 specializes in the consultant dialogue of those issues around the entire spectrum of evangelical Nonconformity instead of on particular denominational traditions.
Johnson continues that too many interpretations of nineteenth-century Nonconformity, particularly those who care for points of the theological dialogue inside of those traditions, have tended to depict such advancements as events of decline from past levels of evangelical power and allure. This booklet in its place argues that it's extra applicable to evaluate those Nonconformist advancements as a collective, worthwhile, and deeply critical attempt to come back to phrases with modernity and, extra, to maintain a dependable knowing of what it intended to be evangelical. It additionally indicates those advancements to join a bigger schema wherein Nonconformity assumed a extra admired position within the English tradition of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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What would all that do for the ministry? It was a question that later received critical assessment from two distinctly different perspectives. A. A. degrees was taken only by some 20-25 percent of the students, yet even this number significantly affected the character of the institutions that participated in an active way. In general the colleges' response was enthusiastic. They prided themselves on the number of their students who proceeded to degrees, especially those who received academic prizes.
The conference approved Reynolds's proposal, but noted that any initiation had to come from the colleges themselves. A committee formed to consider it submitted a proposal in the following year. But differences appeared, certainly reflecting the various purposes followed by some of the institutions, and no agreement was possible. There the matter rested for twelve years; but in the interval Allon again managed to arrange another college conference. His address to the Congregational Union in 1871 called attention to the fact that none of the serious problems facing the colleges had been resolved.
12 The conference held in 1871, prompted by Allon's address, noted a growing interest in the subject of college reform, with feelings running high that the present system was improvident and inefficient and involved considerable waste of teaching power. If such charges were accurate, the system should be changed. Again, Allon figured prominently, adding statistics to his argument for amalgamation. "13 And he feared that the colleges had lost ground, especially in relation to Presbyterian and Methodist developments, since the relative number of inadequately educated men coming into the ministry had increased rather than declined, even with the larger number of institutions.