Bush Brotherhood

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All Saints Chapel, the so-called "Bush Brotherhood of St Paul", Charleville 1933.
Reverend Harold Victor Hodson, a Bush Brother from England in Richmond , Queensland 1913–1916.

The Bush Brotherhood (German: Buschbruderschaft) was a group of clerics from the Anglican Church of Australia who served as traveling priests in the sparsely populated rural areas of Australia. They have been described as a "band of men", "who preach like the apostles , ride like the cowboys, and, as long as they have food and clothes, are content with it" ( English "For a band of men that will preach like apostles, ride like cowboys, and, having food and raiment, will therewith be content ” ).

The “Bush Brotherhood” was a special form of church care for the Anglicans : Young, unmarried pastors went in pairs for five years as pastors in the lonely areas and returned every three months for a couple of weeks to the mother house of the brotherhood to recover mentally .

story

The "Bush Brotherhoods" were formed after the Lambeth Conference of 1897 at the suggestion of Nathaniel Dawes as a practical and flexible response to the need for a committed clergyman to work on the border of the colonial empire . Thereafter, seven "bush brotherhoods" emerged in Australia, which had an important influence on the colonial church. The first brotherhood was that of St. Andrew, founded in Longreach, west Queensland, in 1897. Four more were founded by 1914. Between the two world wars, almost every rural diocese tried to found a brotherhood; but none of the twenty brotherhoods survived long - the last ended in 1980. In the first two decades of the 20th century, 90 percent of the brothers came directly from Great Britain; two-thirds of them were university graduates, mostly from Oxford or Cambridge. The proportion of Australians later increased while the number of British graduates decreased.

In the first half of the 20th century, the “Bush Brotherhoods” had a major impact on the Australian Church. Almost all of the brothers were Anglo-Catholics and anchored the Anglo-Catholic tradition of worship, piety, and church decoration in the areas in which they served.

Anglo-Catholic Influences in Australia

At the local level, the influences of the Anglo-Catholic “Bush Brotherhoods” in these rural dioceses were the most important. Her way of providing regular service in the sparsely populated area known as the "bush" was unique in the Australian Church.

The brotherhood movement grew out of a number of ideals in the late Victorian Church: Enthusiasm for university settlements and brotherhoods as a means of coping with pastoral challenges that were not achievable by the existing parish system, a muscular Christianity or an "aggressive" piety, which the adventurous spirit of one young priests, and Imperial loyalty - a reputation for serving overseas and building the Church of England in the remotest corners of the British Empire . In Great Britain, church work in the Australian outback seemed romantic, but few young Australians saw it that way.

Each fraternity consisted of a community of unmarried priests who usually took temporary vows for five years and received a small stipend and support. They traveled across the vast area by horse or buggy or in a battered automobile.

Nineteen “Bush Brothers” became bishops in Australia, most of them from the upper class . In 1947 nine of the 24 diocesan bishops were former "Bush Brothers" and the dioceses they led were predominantly Anglo-Catholic. Under the influence of the “Bush Brothers”, the bush became the heartland of Australian Anglo-Catholicism, rather than the inner-city community.

List of Brotherhoods

The St Andrew's Bush Brotherhood was founded in Longreach , Queensland in 1897 by the Bishop of Stepney , Canons and the Bishop of Rockhampton , Nathaniel Dawes.

The first group of "Brothers" was led by Reverend George Halford .

The Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd was founded around 1903 in Dubbo , New South Wales . This brotherhood published The Bush Brother magazine from 1904 to 1980.

The Bush Brotherhood of St Boniface served in the Diocese of Bunbury in Western Australia from July 1911 to 1929.

The Bush Brotherhood of St Barnabas in North Queensland came to prominence in 1922 when Bryan Robin published The Sundowner about his experiences between 1914 and 1921. This book inspired other priests to join the Brotherhood.

The Brotherhood of St John the Baptist worked in Murray Bridge , South Australia.

The Bush Brotherhood of St Paul worked in Charleville and Cunnamulla in Queensland.

In popular culture

In the novel In the Wet by Nevil Shute , the narrator is a member of the Bush Brotherhood and gives a fictional account of the life of one of these wandering priest.

literature

Individual evidence

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  3. ^ Hilary M. Carey: God's empire: religion and colonialism in the British World, c.1801-1908 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, ISBN 978-0-521-19410-5 , pp. 106 (English).
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  6. ↑ Work Without Pay. . In: The Western Champion and General Advertiser for the Central-Western Districts , Nov. 18, 1901, p. 14. Retrieved September 25, 2015. 
  7. ↑ No title. . In: The Morning Bulletin , September 21, 1897, p. 5. Retrieved September 25, 2015. 
  8. ^ A b Religious News And Views. . In: The Advertiser , January 11, 1947, p. 12. Retrieved September 25, 2015. 
  9. ↑ Bush Mission Work. . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , September 3, 1903, p. 5. Retrieved September 25, 2015. 
  10. ^ Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd (Dubbo, NSW): The Bush brother: a quarterly paper. Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd 1904. [1] June 25, 2018
  11. ↑ COUNTRY. . In: The West Australian , July 13, 1911, p. 8. Retrieved September 26, 2015. 
  12. ^ Brotherhood of St Boniface. . In: Great Southern Herald , September 11, 1929, p. 6. Retrieved September 26, 2015. 
  13. ^ Robin Radford: Robin, Bryan Percival (1887–1969) . National Center of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra.