This “amusing and elegantly written” romp takes readers on a wild ride through the life of Robert Parkin Peters (The New York Times Book Review)—a liar, bigamist, and fraudulent priest who tricked some of the brightest minds of his generation. One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor–Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford. Cu...
Service of Healing (Patterns of Worship Service Cards)
Blends sound psychological principles with Christian compassion and prudence, offering numerous tips for carrying out a caring ministry while observing hospital protocol. Wise and practical advice for hospital visitors, whether lay or clergy.
Calling on the Spirit in Unsettling Times - eBook [epub ] (Canterbury Studies in Anglicanism)
by L. William Countryman
Book of Alternative Services of the Anglican Church of Canada
The Promise of His Glory
The Promise of His Glory
'It's a big book, full of big stories with big characters. They have big ideas (not least about themselves) and make big mistakes. It's about God, and greed, and grace; about life, lust, laughter and loneliness. It's about birth, beginnings and betrayal; about siblings, squabbles and sex; about power and prayer and prison and passion ...And that's only Genesis.' Tom Wright unpacks the contents of the Bible and explains the meaning of its inspiration, impact and authority. A book for all who ar...
The Anglican Church in Nineteenth Century Britain (Text & Studies in Religion, #40)
by Susan Drain
The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (Lect.).
by Renn Dickson Hampden
The Oxford Movement was one of the most influential trends of the 19th century and paved the way for enormous changes in both theology and liturgical practice within the Church of England. It began as an intellectual movement at Oxford University and became the inspiration for a new way of "being church" and was behind a renaissance of church building, particularly in inner-city slums. This work is an introduction to the movement, written at an accessible level, which should be of interest to st...
Ministry with the Sick, Ministry with the Dying, Reconciliation of a Penitent