What Is The Role Of The Church In The Edwardian Era

Georgian Era, Victorian Era and the Edwardian Era Firstly the Georgian Era began at 1714 to 1830, then there is the Victorian Era that lasted from 1837 to 1901, and lastly the Edwardian Era which lasted from 1901 to 1910. The movements of churches rose in the Georgian Era because of the Church of England started gaining strength in the 18th and early 19th century. In the Victorian Era the rise of Nonconformist conscience, which was the moralistic influence of the nonconformist churches in British politics. This started in the 19th and early 20th century. In the Edwardian Era the rising status for women began. This was started by Emmeline Pankhurst, who founded the Women’s Social and Political Union. Which started in 1903. John Wesley, from 1703 - 1791, along with his followers preached the revivalist religion. John’s goal was to convert individuals to a personal relationship with Christ through Bible reading. This also included regular praying and especially revival experiences. Wesley always operated inside the Church of England, Wesley himself preached 52,000 times. He called

Methodists, a historian group, with other Protestant groups as “Nonconformists” standing in opposition to the established Church of England. Dissenters who went to the chapel comprised half of the people who actually attended services on Sunday. Dissenters were based in the fast growing urban middle class. Their moral “Nonconformist conscience”; in which they tried to implement in British politics even though they suffered from political disabilities that reduced their political power until the 1830s. There was in fact two types of Dissenters, or Nonconformists. Old Dissenters dating from the 16th and the 17th centuries. Old dissenters included Baptists, Congregationalists, Quakers, Unitarians, and Presbyterians outside Scotland. New Dissenters, which were mainly Methodists, emerged in the 18th