The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow, Vol. 1 of 8 (Classic Reprint)
by Isaac Barrow
This study examines the nexus between sexuality and religiosity in the career of nineteenth-century Calcutta's famous Bengali saint Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836-86). Dr. Sil's pioneering psychological study (""Ramakrishna Paramahamsa: A Psychological Profile"", 1991) of this personality was followed by another book on Ramakrishna, published in 1998, which strongly argued against the saint's widely publicized homosexual orientation in the Anglo-American academe. The present book argues that...
The Ordination of Women to the Priesthood
The Words of Desmond Tutu (Newmarket Words of...)
by Naomi Tutu and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
This is a collection of the words of Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, and arguably one of the great inspirational leaders of our time. Selected and introduced by his daughter Naomi, the book contains excerpts from his most memorable speeches, exploring such topics as faith and responsibility, apartheid, family, nonviolence and violence, and community, as well as his vision of a new South Africa.
"In the Words of Desmond Tutu" is a collection of some of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu's most famous and inspiring quotes and it conveys the intelligence, dignity, steadfastness and much admired wit with which he goes about his work. In doing so it shows how he has come to symbolise and indeed mould a growing movement for global justice. The words collected here promise to provide inspiration in confronting challenges of discrimination and moral uncertainty which we a...
Lectionary (Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England)
This is the first study to consider the meaning of Anglicanism for ordinary people in nineteenth-century England. Drawing extensively on unpublished sources, particularly those for rural areas, Frances Knight analyses the beliefs and practices of lay Anglicans and of the clergy who ministered to them. Building on arguments that the Church of England was in transition from state church to denomination, she argues that strong continuities with the past nevertheless remained. Through an examination...
In 1588, the Spanish Jesuit Pedro de Ribadeneyra published a history of the English Reformation, which he continued to revise until his death in 1611. Spencer J. Weinreich's translation is the first English edition of the History, one fully alive to its metamorphoses over two decades. Weinreich's introduction explores the text's many dimensions-propaganda for the Spanish Armada, anti-Protestant polemic, Jesuit hagiography, consolation amid tribulation-and assesses Ribadeneyra as a historian. The...
The Anglican Communion is in turmoil. One of the great historic pillars of Christianity, embraced by 70 million people in 164 countries, faces the real and immediate possibility of dismberment, as the spectre of schism looms ever closer. Yet why is gay sexuality the tinderbox that could rip the Anglican Communion apart, and put an end to a century-old and hugely-prized international unity, when such contentious issues as the ordination of women, or unity discussions with other churches, failed t...
Get to know the first five Black women to be elected diocesan bishops within the Episcopal Church. During this moment, with the #metoo movement, Black Lives Matter, and the increased feelings of division in our country, Black women clergy in the Episcopal Church have voiced a need to come together, believing that their experiences and concerns may be very different than those of other clergy. That need is answered here in This Band of Sisterhood. The five Black women bishops featured in this...
Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Ugandasheds critical light on the complex and unstable relationship between Christianity and politics, and peace and war. Drawing on long-running ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda’s largest religious communities, it maps the tensions and ironies found in the Catholic and Anglican Churches in the wake of war between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. It shows how churches' responses to the war were enabled by their embeddedn...
Living in Love and Faith (LLF) is a set of resources produced by the bishops of the Church of England to help Christians discern God's will on the issues of 'identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage.' As those in the Church of England engage with these resources, they need to know the answers to two key questions about them. What do the LLF resources contain? What are we to make of them theologically? This book gives a detailed answer to both questions. It explains the background and...