Christian anarchism: Encyclopedia II - Christian anarchism - Other trends towards anarchism

Christian anarchism - Other trends towards anarchism

Christian anarchism - Nonconformism

In 1533, Anglicanism was formed after Henry VIII opposed certain Vatican decisions and directives, including Pope Clement VII's refusal to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon and England's obligation to pay taxes in the form of Peter's Pence. Then over the 17th and 18th centuries several English Dissenters, such as George Fox, Isaac Watts and John Bunyan, criticised the Church of England and split away from Anglicanism. Nonconformist organisations include the Religious Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers.

Christian anarchism - Restorationism

Restorationism saw itself as a rediscovery of the original form of Christianity. In the 19th century, two Latter Day Saint sects with Restorationist and Anabaptist affinities grew up, the Community of Christ and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, both of which attempted to live by what is known as the Law of Consecration and Stewardship and United Order of Enoch. Communitarian in nature and sharing some aspects of anarchism, the Law of Consecration was administered both on a local and church wide basis.

Then in the early 20th century, the Community of Christ, under the leadership of Frederick Madison Smith, grandson of Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr., laid the basis for research and development efforts toward gathering members of the Community of Christ to the Kansas City Missouri region (the Centerplace) to build a cooperative commonwealth (Zion) networking the cooperative economies of its federated local jurisdictions organised as stakes. Raymond Zinser and Wilford Winholtz are notable Latter Day Saint advocates of the Cause of Zion.

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