Frere James Hatley, Esq. Prophecy. Dan. Rev,etc. Irvingism. 19th Cent

Frere James Hatley, Esq. Prophecy. Dan. Rev,etc. Irvingism. 19th Cent

Author: Edward Irving, Catholic Apostolic Church, etc

Year: 1840

Edward Irving. Works. Irvingism. Catholic Apostolic Church. 19thCent "Edward Irving, (born August 4, 1792, Annan, Dumfries [now in Dumfries and Galloway], Scotland—died December 7, 1834, Glasgow, Strathclyde [now in City of Glasgow council area]), Church of Scotland minister whose teachings became the basis of the religious movement known as Irvingism, later called the Catholic Apostolic Church. After working as a mathematics teacher and studying theology part time, Irving was called in 1822 to the Caledonian chapel in London as a preacher. His chapel congregation grew so rapidly that in 1827 a new and larger church was built for him in Regent Square. His popularity waned, however, because of his increasing stress on apocalypticism and eschatology, including his prediction in 1825 that the Second Coming of Christ would occur in 1864. From 1826 he was the centre of a “school of the prophets,” which published the Morning Watch, or Quarterly Journal of Prophecy periodically from 1829 to 1833. In 1828 his Doctrine of the Incarnation Opened aroused opposition for its denigration of the human side of Christ’s nature. After a similar work by him appeared in 1830, he was charged in ecclesi