''The Orthodox Churchman's Magazine'' was an English
High Church
A ''high church'' is a Christian Church whose beliefs and practices of Christian ecclesiology, Christian liturgy, liturgy, and Christian theology, theology emphasize "ritual, priestly authority, ndsacraments," and a standard liturgy. Although ...
monthly, appearing from 1801 to 1808. It was launched in March 1801, as
William Pitt the younger
William Pitt (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British statesman who served as the last prime minister of Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800, and then first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, p ...
resigned from government over
Catholic emancipation, and took an anti-Catholic editorial line. It was initially edited by
William Hamilton Reid. The ''Magazine'' was hostile to
deists,
Latitudinarians,
Methodists and
Unitarians, and its tone was set from the first issue by the High Church views of
William Stevens.
Contributors
Contributors included:
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William Hales, writing as "Inspector";
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Edward Pearson;
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Richard Polwhele
Richard Polwhele (6 January 1760 – 12 March 1838) was a Cornish clergyman, poet and historian of Cornwall and Devon.
Biography
Richard Polwhele's ancestors long held the manor of Treworgan, 4 3/4 miles south-east of Truro in Cornwall, w ...
;
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John Rendle; and
*
Thomas Thirlwall.
Notes
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Defunct Christian magazines published in the United Kingdom
1801 establishments in England
1808 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Anglican newspapers and magazines
Anglo-Catholicism