The terms Low Church and High Church refer to parties within the Church of England and the Anglican communion worldwide (Anglicanism) that represent either a “low” or a “high” perspective on the Church as an institution. The term Low Church first appeared in the aftermath of England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688, when the new Whig government appointed latitudinarian bishops. These bishops emphasized reason and moderation instead of the authority of the apostolic tradition, as their predecessors had, and made efforts to bring about reconciliation with the Protestant Dissent…