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The SPCK in Defence of Protestant Minorities in Early Eighteenth-Century Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2005

SUGIKO NISHIKAWA
SUGIKO NISHIKAWA
Affiliation:
4-18-9 Kirigaoka, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-0016, Japan; e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the SPCK, has been much discussed as the epitome of Anglican evangelistic zeal and is well known for its dedicated work in the distribution of Christian literature. Whereas the fact that continental Protestants were in regular contact with the SPCK has been noted, few attempts have so far been made to examine SPCK relations with continental Protestants. In fact, the SPCK emerges as more and more concerned with its responsibilities towards its persecuted foreign brethren. Thus it is important to place the SPCK in the context of the Europe-wide Protestant Reformation.

Type
Research Article
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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 730 - 748
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

BPU=Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, Geneva; MAB=Central Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Science, Vilnius; NMMB=Nacionalinė Martyno Mažvydo Biblioteka, Vilnius
My research visits to Europe in 2002 were funded by a research grant in the humanities from the Mitsubishi Foundation of Japan. A preliminary study on this subject was published in the Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland xxvii (2002), 659–70, and an earlier version of this paper was read to the seminar on ‘The religious history of Britain from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries’ at the Institute of Historical Research, London, in October 2002. I am grateful to the late Revd Dr Gordon Huelin and other staff at the SPCK, London, and to Mrs Victoria Hutchings and Ms Barbara Sands at Hoare's Bank Archives, London, for allowing me to consult their records. The SPCK archive has now been transferred to Cambridge University Library.