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A moderate form of socialism which prescribes the integration of the Christian (specifically Protestant) principles of peace, brotherhood and non-hierarchical power structure with the socialist principles of equality, communality and non-competitiveness. Inspired by the work of Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) the term was first used by members of the Anglican Church in support of aspects of the Chartist movement of the late 1830s. Although primarily a product of progressive Protestantism, similar movements have been inspired by radical clerics from the Catholic Church in France, the Netherlands and especially Latin America. BO\'L
Further reading J. Marsden, Marxian and Christian Utopianism: Towards a Socialist Political Theology; , E. Norman, The Victorian Christian Socialists. |
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