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The Victorians and the Athanasian Creed

Dr Joshua Bennett, Tutorial Fellow in History, Lady Margaret Hall

The Athanasian Creed generated intense debate in Victorian England. The place of so-called 'damnatory clauses' in the liturgy raised questions about the exclusiveness of the national church, and the authority of tradition. This lecture focuses on the most sustained campaign to demote the Creed's status in the 1870s. The effort suffered a surprising failure, yet its dynamics pointed to the decline of a textual and patristic approach to apologetics, in favour of a more interior and experiential approach to religious authority, anticipating the Creed's more thoroughgoing eclipse in twentieth-century Anglicanism.
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When:

6 March 2024

4:00 pm

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