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Dissent Or English Separatists: A Comparative Analysis

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The Oxford English Dictionary defines dissent as the ‘holding or expression of opinions at variance with those commonly or officially held’. This is most often applied to the disagreement within specific groups or agencies, most commonly political parties, governments, or in the case of the topic of this assignment, the disagreement with or rejection of the doctrines or authority of an established church. This act of dissent invariably comes with the refusal to conform to the doctrines, beliefs, or practices of the established church, and brings about the adherence to a different and often new system of beliefs and practices. (Oxford University Press, 2014) Historically, English Dissenters or English Separatists were Protestant Christians who …show more content…

(M’Cheyne, 2015) Major differences existed between the different denominations in matters of doctrine, church government, and attitudes to the ministry, differences which still exist to this day. These different denominations also underwent their own major changes during the two centuries after 1660 and the reformation, partly because of the evangelical revival of the mid eighteenth century. The term nonconformity is often used interchangeably with dissent, and is the term more commonly used for Protestant groups outside the Church of England. Dissenting churches such as Congregationalists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Unitarians, Methodists and Evangelicals have, both historically and today, been called ‘Non-Conformists’, ‘radicals‘ and ‘dissenters‘.(Wright, …show more content…

Baptists reject infant baptism, contending that Scripture only allowed a believer’s baptism that involved a confession of faith. (Wright, 2005) Quakers do not believe in Ministry as a profession, instead claiming the ‘Ministry of All Believers’ as a central tenet. This meant that they have no need for academies for ministry education. Methodists root themselves in the father of the Reformation – John Calvin – even to this day and very much conduct themselves in a ‘Calvinistic’ Dissenting manner. Contemporarily, many of these Free – Dissenting – churches enjoy the sense that following Jesus Christ sets them apart from many fashionable opinions in society and forces them to ‘dissent’ from them, but how much do they recognise this as being related to the Dissent of their ancestors? (Wright, 2016) Scripturally speaking, following a Messiah who was crucified by the religious and political powers of his day makes Him the ultimate dissenter and should make a big difference to the way we, as His followers, think. Jesus plainly did not fit in with the powerful people of His day. (Page, 2002, p.

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