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- Title
Foreign Encounters: English Congregationalism, Germany and the United States c.1850-c.1914.
- Authors
Robbins, Keith
- Abstract
English Congregationalists in the later nineteenth century had increased opportunity to travel. There were many reasons to go to the United States. There were equally opportunities to visit continental Europe. This paper considers the travels undertaken by a number of prominent ministers of the period, sometimes west, sometimes east, sometimes both. It records their reactions to what they saw and heard. Behind this record of travel, however, were deeper questions about where English Congregationalism 'placed' itself. The long connection with Puritan America received fresh emphasis and there was a strong sense of sharing in an Atlantic world. On the other hand, German theology, quite often studied at first hand in various German universities meant, that German scholarship, in all its variety, was influential - if controversial. There was, therefore, something of a contest between the contrasting attractions of the United States and Germany. The paper notes that the ability to keep these 'foreign encounters' in harmony came to an end in 1914.
- Subjects
GERMANY; UNITED States; CONGREGATIONALISTS; CONGREGATIONALISM; CLERGY; PURITAN movements
- Publication
International Congregational Journal, 2007, Vol 7, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
1472-2089
- Publication type
Article