Cameronian movement

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The Cameronian movement was a radical 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian faction that upheld strict Covenanter principles, rejecting state interference in the church and often facing severe persecution for its stance.

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Cameronian movement canonical 1
Covenanter movement 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Covenanter faction
Presbyterian movement
characterizedBy armed self‑defence at worship meetings
field conventicles
refusal to take oaths acknowledging royal ecclesiastical supremacy
country Scotland
doctrine Christ alone is head of the Church
binding obligation of the Covenants
exclusive Presbyterian church government
faced severe persecution
foundedBy Richard Cameron
hasNotableDocument Queensferry Paper
Sanquhar Declaration
hasNotableMember Alexander Peden
Donald Cargill
Richard Cameron
hasPart Cameronians
historicalContext Glorious Revolution era
Restoration
surface form: Restoration Scotland
historicalPeriod Killing Times
surface form: The Killing Times
ideology Covenanter principles
radical Presbyterianism
influenced Reformed Presbyterian Church
surface form: Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland

Reformed Presbyterian Church
surface form: Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America

Reformed Presbyterian Church
surface form: Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland
language Scots
Scottish English
legacy formation of the Cameronian regiment (26th Regiment of Foot)
namedAfter Richard Cameron
opposedTo Erastianism
Restoration episcopacy in Scotland
Royal Supremacy over the Church
state interference in the church
persecutedBy Privy Council of Scotland
surface form: Scottish Privy Council

Stuart period
surface form: Stuart monarchy

government dragoons
positionOnMonarchy rejected the authority of Charles II as unlawful
rejected the authority of James VII and II as unlawful
relatedTo United Societies
religion Presbyterian
surface form: Presbyterianism
religiousTradition Reformed Christianity
significantEvent Battle of Airds Moss
Battle of Bothwell Bridge
Killing Time
startTime 1679
supported National Covenant
surface form: National Covenant of 1638

Solemn League and Covenant

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Scottish Covenanters influenced Cameronian movement
Scottish Reformation influenced Cameronian movement
this entity surface form: Covenanter movement