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Encyclopedia: Bangorian Controversy

The Bangorian Controversy was a theological argument within the Church of England in the 18th century. The origins of the controversy lay in the 1716 posthumous publication of George Hickes's Constitution of the Catholic Church, and the Nature and Consequences of Schism. In it, Hickes, Bishop of Thetford, excommunicated all but the non-juror churchmen. Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, wrote a reply entitled, Preservative against the Principles and Practices of Non-Jurors, in which his own Erastian position was sincerely proposed as the only test of truth. However, the controversy kicked off most visibly and vocally when Hoadly delivered a sermon on March 31, 1717 to George I of Great Britain on The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ. His text was John 18:36, "My kingdom is not of this world," and from that Hoadly deduced, supposedly at the request of the king himself, that there is no Biblical justification for any church government of any sort. He identified the church with the kingdom of Heaven—it was therefore not of this world, and Christ had not delegated His authority to any representatives.

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Thomas Sherlock

Bentley. In 1715 he was appointed dean of Chichester. He took a prominent part in the Bangorian controversy against Benjamin Hoadly, whom he succeeded as bishop of Bangor in 1728; he was afterwards...

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George Hickes

the celebrated Bangorian controversy, See the article by the Rev. WD Macray in the Dictionary of... consecrated suffragan bishop of Thetford. His later years were largely occupied in controversies and in... Theology (1847). In 1705 and 1710 were published Collections of Controversial Letters , in 1711 a...

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John Balguy

sermon on “The Kingdom of Christ,” which gave rise to the “Bangorian controversy “; and... Ln this controversy against some of his High Church opponents. In 1726 he published A letter to a...

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John Rogers (religious)

the Bangorian controversy (1719), his Vindication of the Civil Establishment of Religion (1728), and...

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