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Foundation for Revival

Anthony Horneck, The Religious Societies, and the Construction of an Anglican Pietism

Scott Thomas Kisker

Anthony Horneck (1641-1697) is a key figure for the migration of the continental Pietist sensibilities into Restoration Anglicanism and ultimately into Methodism. Horneck was educated at Heidelberg and Leiden and then immigrated to England during the year of the Restoration. In England he became a committed Anglican, but his life and ministry demonstrated the influences of developing continental Pietism. He preached salvation. He avoided disputes over non-essentials. Most significantly, he organized religious societies of awakened souls beginning in 1678. The rules Horneck drew up for the guidance of these societies bear many marks of continental Pietism and laid the foundation for philanthropic and revivalist movements in England. At Horneck's death there were a number of these religious societies in and around London. In the next twenty years they expanded in London and throughout the counties, profoundly impacting Anglican piety. By the 1720s their network provided the matrix of relationships through which Moravians (a Continental Pietist group) and Oxford Methodists met in what became the Anglo-evangelical revival. In the 1730s and 40s they enabled Methodism's rapid spread and were united into a new movement.

Foundation for Revival provides insight into the complex religious world of Restoration piety—blurring some of the rigid distinctions between Puritans and Anglicans. As a combination of Restoration high church piety and Pietist sensibilities concerning personal regeneration, Horneck provides a theological emancipation from the usual categories defining evangelical Christianity. Horneck's life also reveals an early, and generally overlooked, link between continental versions of Pietism and English evangelicalism, on which both the development of mission/philanthropic institutions in England and the rise of Methodism, Reformed and Wesleyan, depend. Finally, as a forerunner of Methodism, Horneck helps to clarify many of the "contradictions" in the piety of the young John Wesley, giving Wesley
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Scarecrow Press
Pages: 268 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-0-8108-5799-5 • Paperback • December 2007 • $109.00 • (£84.00)
Series: Pietist and Wesleyan Studies
Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Anglican, Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions
Scott Kisker began teaching at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. in the fields of evangelism and Wesley/Methodist studies in 2002.
Part 1 List of Illustrations
Part 2 Series Editor's Preface
Part 3 Acknowledgments
Part 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 1. Pietistic Christianity in Protestant England (1549-1662)
Chapter 6 2. A Pious Cleric in Search of a Country
Chapter 7 3. An Anglican Pietist Experiment
Chapter 8 4. Unsettled Times
Chapter 9 5. A Pious Revolution
Chapter 10 6. From Religious Societies to United Societies
Chapter 11 7. An Anglican Pietism
Chapter 12 Epilogue: An Unwitting Architect
Part 13 Appendixes
Chapter 14 A. Rules for Religious Societies
Chapter 15 B. A Specimen of the Order of the Religious Societies
Chapter 16 C. Rules for Peace among Protestant Churches
Chapter 17 D. Account of the Religious Society in Epworth
Part 18 Selected Bibliography
Part 19 About the Author

Foundation for Revival

Anthony Horneck, The Religious Societies, and the Construction of an Anglican Pietism

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  • Anthony Horneck (1641-1697) is a key figure for the migration of the continental Pietist sensibilities into Restoration Anglicanism and ultimately into Methodism. Horneck was educated at Heidelberg and Leiden and then immigrated to England during the year of the Restoration. In England he became a committed Anglican, but his life and ministry demonstrated the influences of developing continental Pietism. He preached salvation. He avoided disputes over non-essentials. Most significantly, he organized religious societies of awakened souls beginning in 1678. The rules Horneck drew up for the guidance of these societies bear many marks of continental Pietism and laid the foundation for philanthropic and revivalist movements in England. At Horneck's death there were a number of these religious societies in and around London. In the next twenty years they expanded in London and throughout the counties, profoundly impacting Anglican piety. By the 1720s their network provided the matrix of relationships through which Moravians (a Continental Pietist group) and Oxford Methodists met in what became the Anglo-evangelical revival. In the 1730s and 40s they enabled Methodism's rapid spread and were united into a new movement.

    Foundation for Revival provides insight into the complex religious world of Restoration piety—blurring some of the rigid distinctions between Puritans and Anglicans. As a combination of Restoration high church piety and Pietist sensibilities concerning personal regeneration, Horneck provides a theological emancipation from the usual categories defining evangelical Christianity. Horneck's life also reveals an early, and generally overlooked, link between continental versions of Pietism and English evangelicalism, on which both the development of mission/philanthropic institutions in England and the rise of Methodism, Reformed and Wesleyan, depend. Finally, as a forerunner of Methodism, Horneck helps to clarify many of the "contradictions" in the piety of the young John Wesley, giving Wesley
Details
Details
  • Scarecrow Press
    Pages: 268 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
    978-0-8108-5799-5 • Paperback • December 2007 • $109.00 • (£84.00)
    Series: Pietist and Wesleyan Studies
    Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Anglican, Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions
Author
Author
  • Scott Kisker began teaching at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. in the fields of evangelism and Wesley/Methodist studies in 2002.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Part 1 List of Illustrations
    Part 2 Series Editor's Preface
    Part 3 Acknowledgments
    Part 4 Introduction
    Chapter 5 1. Pietistic Christianity in Protestant England (1549-1662)
    Chapter 6 2. A Pious Cleric in Search of a Country
    Chapter 7 3. An Anglican Pietist Experiment
    Chapter 8 4. Unsettled Times
    Chapter 9 5. A Pious Revolution
    Chapter 10 6. From Religious Societies to United Societies
    Chapter 11 7. An Anglican Pietism
    Chapter 12 Epilogue: An Unwitting Architect
    Part 13 Appendixes
    Chapter 14 A. Rules for Religious Societies
    Chapter 15 B. A Specimen of the Order of the Religious Societies
    Chapter 16 C. Rules for Peace among Protestant Churches
    Chapter 17 D. Account of the Religious Society in Epworth
    Part 18 Selected Bibliography
    Part 19 About the Author

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