Fifth Business
Find references to two kinds of religious information, form and spirit. Form includes references to established churches and faiths; spirit includes matters of personal conviction and belief.
Part III
Chapter 6
Part III
Chapter 6
Many people, like Boy, joined or followed the church for social standing,
During this uproar a few sensitive souls fled to the embrace of Anglicanism; the envious and disaffected said they did it because the Anglican Church was in some way more high-toned than the evangelical faiths, and thus they were improving their social standing.
We can juxtapose this with people like Joel Surgeoner who joined the church from a spiritual revelation born out of trauma and redemption.