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Clapham Sect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Clapham Sect was an influential group of like-minded Church of England social reformers in England at the beginning of the nineteenth century (active c. 1790 – 1830). Its members were chiefly pr...
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Henry Venn (Clapham Sect) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Clapham Sect acquired its name because its leading members lived in Clapham. They included Henry Thornton, M.P. for Southwark; Zachary Macaulay, James Stephen; Lord Teignmouth, Charles Grant, Charles Simeon and John Venn.
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and it was to that part that the so-called Clapham Sect belonged. The Sect stands in the tradition of convinced and devoted Churchmen such as William Romaine (1714-95), the scholarly preacher of St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street, and St. Andrew's, Blackfriars;
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The Clapham Sect was an informal group of evangelicals in England who lived and worked near Clapham. Among its members are Charles Grant, Zachary Macaulay (governor of Sierra Leone from 1792 to 1799), Granville Sharp, James Stephen (ancestor of Virg ... The sect has recently come to light in a major motion picture,
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Clapham Sect: Phase II is a community of student abolitionists. CSP2 is working to help end modern day slavery. ... Clapham Sect: Phase II is a community of young abolitionists who are passionate about ending slavery. We want to help equip you with the tools necessary to start your own crusade against oppression. So,
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From the Clapham Sect came the Christian Socialist movement with many convinced that Jesus was the first Socialist, a Communist. That belief gave them the impetus to try to reconstruct and control the direction of society in a bid for the kingdom of God on earth.
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The Clapham Sect founded many missionary organizations including, "...The Church Missionary Society (1799), the British and Foreign Bible Society (1804), The Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor (1796), The Society for the Reformation of Prison Discipline and many more." 40...
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John Venn and the Clapham Sect; By Michael Murray Hennell ... As Rector of Clapham, Venn was the prototypically effective nineteenth-century town parson, but through his role as first Chairman of the Church Missionary Society and as Chaplain to the Clapham Sect his influence was felt on the wider Church.
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