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Encyclopedia of Religion entry forCambridge Camden SocietyA Society founded in 1839 " to promote the study of ecclesiastical architecture and antiquities, and the restoration of mutilated architectural remains." W. Walsh (.Prot. Dict., s.v. " Oxford Movement ") quotes Francis Close (1797-1882), afterwards Dean of Carlisle, as saying in 1844 in a sermon that " as Romanism is taught Analytically at Oxford, it is taught Artistically at Cambridge—it is inculcated theoretically, in tracts, at one University, and it is sculptured, painted, and graven at the other. The Cambridge Camdenians build churches and furnish symbolic vessels, by which the Oxford Tractarians may carry out their principles." CAMBRIDGE PLATFORM OF CHURCH DISCIPLINE. The Cambridge (New England) Platform of Church Discipline was drawn up by the Cambridge Synod in 1648 A.D. as a supplement to the Westminster Confession (q.v.) of 1646 A.D. The new Platform takes the place of the doctrine of Church government and discipline in chapters xxv., xxx., and xxii. of the Westminster Confession. W. A. Curtis speaks of it as " a careful and minute application of Congregational principles to the details of the Puritan doctrine of the Church." See William A. Curtis. citations: Encyc. of Rel., Canney
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