Abstract
The indigenous people had inhabited the Australian continent for tens of thousands of years, but the history of modern Australia began with the British settlers in 1788. When the convicts and freemen started to arrive in the Oceania region, the various denominations of Calvinism were transmitted into the colonial land of Great Britain in the nineteenth century. The Presbyterian is that was based on the Church of Scotland and European Reformed heritages was founded in the1820s.The Congregational Church was established by Charles Price in New South Walesin1833.The Wesleyan Methodist Church emerged in the region of Australasia (including New Zealand) in 1875. Each Calvinistic tradition denominationally witnessed its prosperity of unity at the turn of the twentieth century, but there was an interdenominational unity movement through the so-called, the Uniting Churchinthe1970s. Many local churches voluntarily re-joined the new religious organization from the Calvinistic denominations. Then, who are the Uniting Church? What do they believe and pursue? How are they innovative in comparison with the traditional churches? What kind of conflict or confusion exists between the old ones and the new one? This paper explores the religious figures of the new uniting movement in relation to the context of Euro-British Calvinism. The social liberalism of the Uniting Church is particularly regarded to depict an authentic identity of Australian Calvinism in the late twentieth century
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Reformed Churches Working Unity in Diversity: Global historical, theological and ethical perspectives |
Editors | Abraham Kovacs |
Place of Publication | Budapest |
Publisher | l'Harmattan |
Pages | 139-160pp |
Volume | 1 |
Edition | 1st |
ISBN (Print) | 9782343097947 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |