In Anglican Christianity, the term low church refers to those who give little emphasis to ritual, often having an emphasis on preaching, individual salvation, and personal conversion. The term is most
1709 satirical broadside with an engraving showing a Janus figure preaching, the left half showing a bishop in a pulpit, the right half a puritan in a tub.
"Low Church Devotion" (Adolph Tidemand, 1852)
A contemporary Low church Lutheran mass within the Swedish Evangelical Mission in Klara Church in Stockholm. Electronical screens, contemporary music and praise bands, lay preachers, and a more unreserved body language is much more common in low church contexts than in the rest of the Church of Sweden.
Anglo-Catholicism comprises beliefs and practices that emphasise the Catholic heritage, especially pre-Reformation roots, of the Church of England and other churches within Anglicanism. Anglo-Catholic
Low church
…conversion. The term is most often used in a liturgical sense, denoting a Protestant emphasis, whereas high church denotes an emphasis on ritual, often Anglo-Catholic (with respect to Anglicanism) and Evangelical Catholic (with respect to Lutheranism). The term was initially pejorative. During the series of doctrinal…
High Mass at Pusey House, Oxford
John Keble, priest and poet, was a prominent leader in the Oxford Movement, promoting Anglo-Catholic theology.
High altar and reredos, Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania)
The Anglican Missal sitting on an altar desk