What is New Jerusalemite?

[josephinemary]

Stand Lane New Jerusalemite,Pilkington
My Bradshaw ancestors have baptisms in the above. What exactly is this religion please?
Tabitha Bradshaw
Birth    4 Jul 1797 - Stand Lane New Jerusalemite,Pilkington,Lancashire,England
Many thanks,
Josie.

[PaulineJ]

From genuki.

Doesn't seem to show any affiliation
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Radcliffe/StandLaneNewJerusalem

Methodist.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/churchentry?CCC=LAN,ID=3903,FT=Radcliffe%20Stand%20Lane%20Wesleyan%20Methodist

[Mary8]

Link to explain

Mary

[stanmapstone]

Stand Lane New Jerusalemite,Pilkington
What exactly is this religion please?

It is a Christian Denomination, the religion is Christianity.

Stan

[Mary8]

Posted the wrong link above, i think this should be the one Link

Mary

[stanmapstone]

The New Jerusalem Church, rebuilt 1879/1880, still there https://goo.gl/maps/8UBmZkeg1Jm

Stan

[josephinemary]

Many thanks Stan. My family were really religious so that explains why they had to be baptised in two different churches/faiths.
Great grandpa Lee was into Baptism and built a Baptist Chapel.

[Rena]

Jerusalemites attend the Jerusalem Church.

It is a Christian church, not Church of England but a type of Methodist church.  This teaching was brought over to England from Sweden.

I've found a paper on the subject but it's a bit too "heavy" for me to read all the way through.

https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:1m2202&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS-DOCUMENT.PDF


At the time there were "dissenters" in the Scottish Presbyterian Church (such as John Knox) and the Church of England. One of the English dissenters was William Blake and a BBC  website has a piece about him.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/blake_william.shtml

[stanmapstone]

Among the earliest disseminators of the teaching of Emanuel Swedenborg were two C of E clergymen, but the formal creation of a separate body known as the New Jerusalem Church was the work of five ex-Wesleyan Preachers  in London in 1787.
The basis of Swedenborg's system was a 'doctrine of correspondence' between the physical and spiritual worlds. Just as an aside in 1878 there were 145 different non-conformist Christian Denominations certified to the Registrar-General.

Stan