Anglican Churchmanship

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Christian denominations without much ritual or emphasis on Church authority, and narrowly evangelical in their teaching

Christian ideology and movement

latitudarian churchmanship in Anglicanism, particularly in the Church of England

Latitudinarians, also called latitude men, were initially a group of 17th-century English theologiansclerics and academicsfrom the University of Cambridge who were moderate Anglicans (members of the Church of England). In particular, they believed that adhering to very specific doctrines, liturgical practices, and church organizational forms, as did the Puritans, was not necessary and could be harmful: "The sense that one had special instructions from God made individuals less amenable to moderation and compromise, or to reason itself." Thus, the latitudinarians supported a broad-based (sensu

thumb|William Laud, for whom "Laudianism" is named, as [[Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Charles I.]] Laudianism, also called Old High Churchmanship, or Orthodox Anglicanism as they styled themselves when debating the Tractarians, was an early seventeenth-century reform movement within the Church of England that tried to avoid the extremes of Roman Catholicism and Puritanism by building on the work of Richard Hooker, and John Jewel and was promulgated by Archbishop William Laud and his supporters. It rejected the predestination upheld by Calvinism in favour of free will, and hence