Editing Ancient British Church (section)

== Ideology ==
Morgan and Ferrette planned the movement as an attempt to restore a form of [[Christianity]] in Britain that they called [[Neo-Celtic Christianity]].<ref name="Thomann2001">{{cite book|author=Günther H. Thomann|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2PXicQAACAAJ|title=A Short Biography of the Reverend Richard Williams Morgan (c.: 1815-1889), the Welsh poet and re-founder of the Ancient British Church: An enquiry into the origins of neo-Celtic Christianity, together with a reprint of several works by Richard Williams Morgan and Jules Ferrette, etc|publisher=St. Ephrem's Inst.|year=2001|access-date=9 November 2012}}</ref> Morgan claimed that Christianity in Britain existed in a [[syncretistic]], [[druid]]ic form prior to the entry of [[Augustine of Canterbury]].<ref name="Pearson20075">{{cite book|last=Pearson|first=Joanne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Au_paUclEZkC&pg=PA166|title=Wicca and the Christian Heritage: ritual, sex and magic|date=27 June 2007|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-25413-7|pages=35|access-date=9 November 2012}}</ref>

The publications of [[John Williams (Ab Ithel)]],<ref name="Pearson2007" /> [[Iolo Morganwg]],<ref name="Löffler2007">{{cite book|author=Marion Löffler|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TIBnAAAAMAAJ|title=The literary and historical legacy of Iolo Morganwg, 1826-1926|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-7083-2113-3|access-date=10 November 2012}}</ref> Morgan and Ferrette influenced the movement.<ref name="Thomann2001" />