{"id":2094,"date":"2014-09-02T18:01:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T22:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2023-07-18T21:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T01:10:46","slug":"william-wilberforce-and-the-clapham-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/2014\/william-wilberforce-and-the-clapham-community\/","title":{"rendered":"William Wilberforce and the Clapham Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2094\" class=\"elementor elementor-2094\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-df3e5c5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"df3e5c5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>When his bill to abolish the slave trade was defeated in Parliament in 1789, William Wilberforce and his friend Henry Thornton called together an informal group of acquaintances who would become a company of friends in pursuit of a great cause.&nbsp; Many of the members moved to the village of Clapham, a prosperous suburb five miles from the heart of London.&nbsp; For 20+ years, they labored together to correct a great injustice\u2014by working first,&nbsp; to abolish England\u2019s participation in the slave trade and second, to abolish slavery as an institution in the British Empire.&nbsp; They became known as the Clapham Circle&#8212;or as&nbsp; opponents called them the Clapham Sect.&nbsp;<\/p><p><i>\u201cThe common bond that held these friends together was the desire to apply their faith in Jesus Christ to personal, social, political, national and international matters.&nbsp; Making no claim to be theologians, they worshiped together, prayed together and studied the Bible seriously,\u201d believing that \u201cthey were representatives of God\u2019s kingdom on earth and faithful stewards of all God had given them.\u201d\u2014Richard Gathro<\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-18ce8f9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"18ce8f9\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fe97d1b\" data-id=\"fe97d1b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap 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James Davidson Hunter calls such groups, can help change the world when they promote the common good.\u00a0 Faculty communities of Christ-followers can become places of grace, civility, and respect, as well as deep fellowship.\u00a0 Such circles can also become not only one of the best communities on the university, but also one the best communities for the university.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3df0b32 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3df0b32\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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Each might well have made a mark for themselves had any chosen to act alone. But because they acted in concert, they exercised a powerful influence and achieved a lasting legacy . . . but they did not act in lockstep. Sometimes they disagreed. But they always did so civilly. 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