Church Society
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| Motto | 'Building on the Foundations.' |
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| Formation | 1950 (forebears: 1835) |
| Type | Evangelical Anglican charity; Campaigning, Publishing and Patronage. |
| Headquarters | Dean Wace House, Ground Floor, Centre Block, Hille Business Estate, 132 St Albans Road, Watford, WD24 4AE, UK |
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Key people
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J. C. Ryle, William Griffith Thomas, Philip Edgcumbe Hughes, Gerald Bray, Wallace Benn |
| Website | www |
Church Society is a conservative evangelical Anglican organisation, and registered charity, formed in 1950 by the merger of the Anglican Church Association (founded 1865) and National Church League (founded 1906 by amalgamation of two earlier bodies).
The journal of Church Society is Churchman (est 1879). Editors have included Henry Wace and Philip Edgecumbe Hughes. The editor as of 2014[update] was Gerald Bray.
Advocates of Protestant Anglicanism associated with the Society include J. C. Ryle, J. T. Tomlinson, W. H. Griffith-Thomas, Henry Wace, William Joynson-Hicks (Home Secretary), Geoffrey Bromiley, Philip Edgecumbe Hughes, J. I. Packer, Alan Stibbs, John Stott and Alec Motyer.
The original forebear of the Church Society was the Protestant Association (founded 1835). The forebears of the Society were established in the 19th Century to oppose the introduction of Anglo-Catholic doctrine into the Church of England through bodies such as the Oxford Movement and The Church Union.
The Church Association, founded in 1865 by Richard P. Blakeney, stated in its first annual report that the objectives of the Association were:
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