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Scripture, Satan and the sacrament: the Clifton Excommunication Case of 1874-76
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In 1874 Flavel Cook, the evangelical vicar of Christ Church, Clifton, barred one of his parishioners, Henry Jenkins, from receiving holy communion after a dispute over the personality of Satan and the reality of eternal punishment. Jenkins sued Cook through the courts, and eventually won his case in 1876 on appeal to the judicial committee of the privy council, leading to Cook’s resignation. The controversy stimulated wide debate on church discipline, the rights of the laity, and whether Chri...
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- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Journal of Theological Studies More from this journal
- Volume:
- 73
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 233–256
- Publication date:
- 2022-02-18
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-10-23
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1477-4607
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0022-5185
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English
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1140655
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pubs:1140655
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2020-11-06
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- Andrew Atherstone
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- 2022
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- © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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