# Rebuke

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{{Short description|Censure of a member of the clergy}}
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In [English law](/source/English_law) and the [canon law](/source/canon_law) of the [Church of England](/source/Church_of_England), a '''rebuke''' is  a [censure](/source/censure) on a member of the [clergy](/source/clergy).<ref>[Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963](/source/Ecclesiastical_Jurisdiction_Measure_1963), [http://www.uk-legislation.hmso.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/Acts/ukcm/1963/cukcm_19630001_en_8#pt8-l1g50 art.49(1)(e)]</ref><ref name="Doe">{{ cite book | pages=216–217 | title=The Legal Framework of the Church of England: A Critical Study in a Comparative Context | author=Doe, N. | year=1996 | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Oxford | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vOJ2_grV8y4C&q=bishops+in+foreign+countries+act&pg=PA216 | isbn=978-0198262206 }} ([Google Books](/source/Google_Books))</ref> It is the least severe censure available against clergy of the Church of England, less severe than a [monition](/source/monition).<ref name="Doe"/> A rebuke can be given in person by a [bishop](/source/bishop) or by an [ecclesiastical court](/source/ecclesiastical_court).<ref name="Doe"/>

In the [Church of Scotland](/source/Church_of_Scotland) a rebuke was necessary for moral offenders to "purge their scandal". This involved standing or sitting before the congregation for up to three Sundays and enduring a rant by the minister. There was sometimes a special repentance stool near the pulpit for this purpose. In a few places the subject was expected to wear [sackcloth](/source/sackcloth). From the 1770s private rebukes were increasingly administered by the [kirk session](/source/kirk_session), particularly for men from the social elites, while until the 1820s the poor were almost always given a public rebuke.<ref>Callum G. Brown, ''Religion and Society in Scotland Since 1707'' (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), {{ISBN|0748608869}}, p. 72.</ref>

Reproof was historically a censure available before culminating in a rebuke.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/17044|title=10.06.06, Booker, Past Convictiona|first=Kevin|last=Uhalde|date=1 June 2010|journal=The Medieval Review|via=scholarworks.iu.edu}}</ref>

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* {{cite journal|first=Kevin|surname=Uhalde|title=Proof and Reproof: The Judicial Component of Episcopal Confrontation|volume=8|issue=1|pages=1–11|date=1999|journal=Early Medieval Europe|doi=10.1111/1468-0254.00036|s2cid=162210860 }}

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