The Re-establishment of the Church of England 1660-1663 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
by I. M. Green
Black Atlantic Writers of the Eighteenth Century
by Olaudah Equiano, Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, John Marrant, and Ottobah Cugoano
This important book brings together for the first time major works by four black writers who published between 1770 and 1793: Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, John Marrant, Ottobah Cugoano, and Olaudah Equiano. Crisscrossing the Atlantic ocean from West Africa to the West Indies, from the American mainland to the British isles, these men share a dramatic story of captivity and liberation, wayfaring and adventure. They also share a story of spiritual salvation, of adapting the christian faith to their own her...
Los Treinta Y Neuve Articulos: Su Lugar Y Uso Hoy
by J. I. Packer and R.T. Beckwith
By describing the Anglican ethos in historical context, with its emphasis on reason, moderation, liturgy and culture, readers can more easily see the grounding from which this faith tradition emerges.
Hooker's Theology of Common Prayer
by John S. Marshall and Richard Hooker
Children are equal members of the Church by virtue of their baptism', writes Stephen Lake 'and therefore should have full access to the sacraments, the signs of God's love, and most especially to the bread and wine of the Eucharist.' This valuable resource book will assist all parishes in welcoming children to communion now that the Church of England has approved new Regulations. Let the Children Come to Communion: encourages the admission of baptized children to communion; summarizes in one pla...
He describes the life and work of five leaders in the Anglican Church in Canada and the Episcopal Church in the United States who came of age in the late nineteenth century and served their religious communities until the mid-twentieth century. As clergy and educators they hoped to root the faith of modern Anglicans/Episcopalians in past traditions to provide a compelling spiritual purpose and identity for the present and the future. Their attempts to articulate a historical basis for Anglican u...
Christ and Satan is the title of the last of four poems in the eleventh-century Junius XI manuscript of Anglo-Saxon poetry. This critical edition contains text, glossary, textual and explanatory notes, and an essay surveying former criticisms and setting forth the authors ideas on the poems principle of unity. Of particular value to students and scholars of Old English, Christ and Satan makes an important contribution to the understanding of this fine and interesting poem.
Faith by Statute Parliament and the Settlement of Religion 1559 (Royal Historical Society Studies in History)
by N. Jones
This text seeks to show how evangelism can be found everywhere, from one-on-one relationships, preaching and small prayer groups to healings, miracles, church-planting and the catechumenate. It also analyzes the challenges to Christian evangelism, including apathy, the rise of militant Islam, secularization and the youth culture. The book provides a renewed vision for reaching those in the world who have not yet heard of Jesus Christ.
Listening Hearts
by Suzanne G. Farnham, Joseph P Gill, R Taylor McLean, and Susan M Ward
This 20th anniversary edition introduces the unique approach of Listening Hearts to the spiritual practice of discernment for a new generation. Written to make the often elusive and usally clergy-centered spiritual practice of discernment accessible to all people, Listening Hearts features simple reflections and exercises drawn from scripture and from Quaker and Ignatian traditions. The seminal work in the Listening Hearts Series, this book has been a beloved resource for tens of thousands of in...
The Private Devotions of Dr. William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury and Martyr
by William Laud
Torn from his parents as a small child in the 1870s, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at the Missionary College in Canterbury and then returned to southern Africa's Cape Colony to be a preacher. He is a brilliant success, but troubles stalk him: his unresolved relationship with his family and people, the condescension of church leaders towards their own native pastors, and That Woman-seen once in a photograph and never forgotten. And now he has to find his mother and tak...
When God is Silent (Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching)
by Barbara Brown Taylor
"Reading of God's silence in the Bible gives me courage to explore the practice of restraint in preaching-not as a deliberate withholding of God's word nor, I hope, as a rationale for my own reticence, but as a sober reaching for more reverence in the act of public speaking about God." In these 1997 Lyman Beecher Lectures in Preaching delivered at Yale Divinity School, Barbara Brown Taylor focuses on the task of those who preach and those who hear sermons in a world where people thirst for a wo...
First published in 1921, this handbook has sold over a million copies and has become the standard guide for churchwardens. An indispensable handbook for churchwardens, PCC members and clergy, it cuts a clear path through the complexities of modern legislation and explains the rules and extent of their responsibility as elected Church officers. This new edition has been fully updated to take into account several new developments including: * the Clergy discipline Measure 2003 * Disability discrim...