SecondReformation

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FortheScottishSecondReformation,seeCovenanter.
TheSecondReformationwasanevangelicalcampaignfromthe1820sonwards,organisedbyfundamentalistsin
theChurchofIrelandandChurchofEngland.

Contents
1History
2Othermeanings
3Notes
4References
5Notes

History
Evangelicalclergymenwereknownas"Biblicals"or"NewReformers".TheSecondReformationwasmost
zealouslyprosecutedinConnachtwhereitwasencouragedbyThomasPlunket,2ndBaronPlunket,[1]theAnglican
BishopofTuam,KillalaandAchonry.OppositioninthewestwasledbytheRomanCatholicArchbishopofTuam,
JohnMacHale.Themovementendeavoured(unsuccessfully)andinecumenicaltermsdisastrously,toproselytise
amongsttheRomanCatholicpopulationofIreland,frequentlybyhighlydubiousmeansinwhichmaterialbenefits
wereofferedasarewardforconversion.[2]TheoccasionoftheGreatFamine(Ireland)wasalsoseizeduponby
the"newReformers".Togetfood,starvingCatholicswereobligedtoapplytotheworkhouseofthelocalPoor
Lawunion.Conversionwasexpecteduponadmittance.QuakerandIrishpoliticianAlfredWebblaterwrote:
"Uponthefaminearosethewidespreadsystemofproselytism...andanetworkofwellintentioned
Protestantassociationsspreadoverthepoorerpartsofthecountry,whichinreturnforsoupandother
helpendeavouredtogatherthepeopleintotheirchurchesandschools...Themovementleftseedsof
bitternessthathavenotyetdiedout,andProtestants,andnotaltogetherexcludingFriends,sacrificed
muchoftheinfluenceforgoodtheymighthavehad..."[3]
Conversionsexactedundertheduressofthosecircumstanceswereoftennotlonglivedastheconvertmaynothave
beenactingoutofpersonalconviction.
"Atthetimethosefamilieswhotookthe"soup"becameknownforgenerationsas"soupers"afterthe
FaminemanyreconvertedbacktobeingRomanCatholicsandinturntheybecameknownas
"jumpers",soonecouldhavethe"souperDoyles"or"souperMurphys"andlater,afterthefaminewas
over,the"jumperDoylesor"jumperMurphys".[4]

TheSecondReformationwasalsoopposedbymoderatesintheChurchofIreland.Itpeteredoutduringthe
1860s.

Othermeanings
Theterm'SecondReformation'hasbeenusedinanumberofcontextsinProtestantism,andcontinuestobeused
bysometorefertocontemporaryevents.InGermanyandNorthernEuropegenerallyitislikelytorefertoaperiod
ofCalvinistpressureonLutheranismfromabout15601619.[5]The"DutchSecondReformation"orNadere
Reformatie("AnotherReformation")isusuallyplacedratherlater,fromabout1600onwards,andhadmuchin
commonwithEnglishPuritanism.

Notes
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5.

ThomasPlunket(http://www.ricorso.net/rx/azdata/index.htm)
Search,AChurchofIrelandJournal,Summer2008,p.151
AlfredWebb,unpublishedbiography,c.1868,pp.120122
Purcell,Michael,TheCursedFamine(18451848),July2006.
Michalski,84

References
Michalski,Sergiusz.ReformationandtheVisualArts:TheProtestantImageQuestioninWesternand
EasternEurope,Routledge,1993,ISBN020341425X,9780203414255GoogleBooks
(http://books.google.co.uk/books?
id=lQjGmEUtbPMC&pg=PA84&dq=Iconoclasm+1566&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=CQzZSaWXApKKNa6ztZI
N#PPA84,M1)
IreneWhelan(2005),TheBibleWarinIreland:TheSecondReformationandthePolarizationof
ProtestantCatholicRelations,18001840
DesmondBowen(1978),"TheProtestantCrusadeinIreland,180070"

Notes
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