biography
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| (1792–1834)
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| biography:
| Church of Scotland clergyman, born in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, UK. He studied at Edinburgh University, then was invited to the Caledonian Church, Hatton Garden, London (1822), where for a while he enjoyed success as a preacher. In 1825 he began to announce the imminent second advent of Jesus Christ, and to elaborate his views of the Incarnation. Charged with heresy for maintaining the sinfulness of Christ's nature, he was convicted by the London presbytery (1830), ejected from his new church in Regent's Square (1832), and finally deposed (1833). The majority of his congregation adhered to him, and a new communion, the Catholic Apostolic Church, was developed, commonly known as Irvingite, though Irving had little to do with its development. |
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