Nazarene fellowship

The Nazarene fellowship were an offshoot from Christadelphians from 1873 to 1881, led by Edward Turney (1820–1879) of Nottingham and David Handley (1822–1886) of Maldon. They were sometimes called "renunciationists" and their teaching called "free life" and "clean flesh".[1][2] They separated over the atonement. The division was relatively short-lived, with most of the 200 people who had left returning within the next few years.[3] Following his death in 1879, Turney's most active supporter, Handley, returned to the main grouping.[4] The group gradually died out. In the 1950s Ernest Brady revived Turney's cause and the name of the group.[5]

  1. ^ Charles H. Lippy The Christadelphians in North America 1989 "Renunciationism took its name from a phrase in a statement by Turney "
  2. ^ Edward Turney "Sacrifice of Christ," p.34 "I have renounced the Papal myth of "sin in the flesh" by which Mr. Roberts is yet bewitched..."
  3. ^ Wilson, B., Sects and Society, p. 243
  4. ^ Christadelphian Magazine 1881
  5. ^ "Introduction". Retrieved 2008-02-09.