The spiritual temper that characterised many Orthodox as well as latitudinarian churchmen has been called 'Tillotsonian' ... A better epithet ... might be that of 'Warbutonian' - Peter Nockles, The Oxford Movement in Context , p.185. Despite the caution shown by Nockles, it does seem appropriate to describe a significant stream of late 18th and early 19th century High Church thought as 'Tillotsonian', with 'Warbutonian' standing within this tradition. Nockles identifies the 1807 Bampton Lectures of High Churchman Thomas Le Mesurier as giving expression to this ethos, with its robust critique of asceticism and enthusiasm. This is particularly evident in Le Mesurier's description of the Apostles, challenging both Roman Catholic and Evangelical accounts of piety which emphasised ' the Weird ', the former with its focus on "excess of mortification and severity of penance", the latter with its "peculiar opinions" and ...
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