Reading in Christian Communities
The essays in this book honor and extend the work of Rowan A. Greer, Walter H. Gray Professor Emeritus of Anglican Studies at Yale University Divinity School, by exploring the connections between textual interpretation and the formation of religious identity. A diverse and prestigious group of biblical scholars, church historians, and theologians studies the role that scripture plays in the creation and maintenance of faith communities and the ways that communal locations in turn shape the inter...
Canterbury Studies in Anglicanism This new volume offers some of the most recent, richest and cutting edge reflection on the nature of Anglican identity at the beginning of the 21st century. Originating from The Society for the Study of Anglicanism, it includes contributions from leading international scholars, including: Katherine Grieb (Virginia Theological Seminary), Robert Hughes (School of Theology, Sewanee), Thomas Hughson (retired, Marquette University), Gerard Mannion (University of San...
Patrons of the Priests (Beitraege Zur Kirchen- Und Kulturgeschichte, #28)
by Heike Bormuth
Die sozialhistorische Studie behandelt ein Thema der Reformation. Sie widmet sich der Identifizierung der verschiedenen Akteure des kirchlichen Patronagesystems und der detaillierten Aufarbeitung ihrer unterschiedlichen und unterscheidbaren Absichten und Handlungsweisen bei der Bestimmung von Glaubensvermittlern. Um dabei die Zusammenhange mit den unterschiedlichen konfessionellen Milieus sichtbar zu machen, wurden die stark katholisch verhaftete Grafschaft Yorkshire und das protestantische Shir...
How the Anglican Communion Came to Be and Where It Is Going (Latimer Briefings)
by Michael Nazir-Ali
A study of the role of women in the Church of England, tracing the origins of the present controversy over their position in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. There are two parts to the book. The first part sets out the various roles played by women in the Church which assigned to them subordinate positions. Through chapters on the image of women in the Church, female volunteer workers and the gradual recruitment of a cadre of paid and professional workers, the author describ...
Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England
by Lecturer in History Matthew Grimley
Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a distinguished scholar of medieval and Renaissance literature who taught at both Oxford University and Cambridge University. After his conversion to Christianity, Lewis began writing Christian apologetic works aimed at a popular audience. It is for these works that Lewis is now best remembered; especially in the U.S., where his books have sold in the millions and continue to be popular today. Perhaps because of this popularity, however, Lewis's Christian writ...
Making Italy Anglican (Oxford Stu in Historical Theology)
by Stefano Villani
For almost three hundred years there were those in England who believed that an Italian translation of the Book of Common Prayer could trigger radical change in the political and religious landscape of Italy. The aim was to present the text to the Italian religious and political elite, in keeping with the belief that the English liturgy embodied the essence of the Church of England. The beauty, harmony, and simplicity of the English liturgical text, rendered into Italian, was expected to demonst...
This text looks at the high performance standards of English choirs and explores how they developed such standards from the early decades of the 19th century, when musical excellence was the exception rather than the rule. The book traces this development back to the formation of the Cambridge Camden Society in 1839. This group dedicated itself to the revival of Anglican worship, determined to recapture the deep aura of spirituality which they perceived to be exemplified in medieval art and arch...
Guenther uses the images of the spiritual director as host, teacher, and midwife to describe the ministry of spiritual direction today. She pays particular attention to spiritual direction for women, and addresses such down-to-earth questions as setting, time, and privacy. The stories of real people bring the practice of spiritual direction alive. "In the pages that follow, I will attempt to describe the shape that spiritual direction might take for people of our time, aware that the subject...
An enjoyable account of John's life story through which we also look at the topic of suffering and how God works to sanctify us and put new threads into our lives, mostly through difficult times. The emphasis is on being hope-filled and positive about God, rather than negative about suffering. John's thesis is that it makes hard times easier to bear if a) we can understand that God is working on us through them, and b) we can learn to co-operate with him rather than being resentful and sulkin...
In this Cowley Cloister Book, Sam Portaro explores questions of discernment and vocation through meditations on the life and unfolding vocation of Jesus. Rather than seeing vocation as a single goal to obtain once and for all, Portaro includes all the many dimensions of life experience, heredity, family roots, relationships, and personal maturity in his consideration of how we as Christians discern who we are called to become. Who am I, where am I going, and how do I find a life of my own? What...
Memorial Services (Analecta Gorgiana)