Sydney Anglicans, always ultra-conservative in terms of liturgy, theology and personal morality, have increasingly modelled themselves on sixteenth century English Puritanism. Over the past few decades, they have added radical congregationalism to the mix. They have altered church services, challenged church order, and relentlessly opposed all attempts to ordain women as priests, let alone bishops. Muriel Porter unpacks how Australia's largest and, until recently, richest diocese developed its i...
"Straw for the Bricks" explores theological reflection as a tool for ministerial training and development. The book offers a new resource for theological conversation at the beginning of the 21st century: it breaks new ground in exploring how a model of conversation can be used to lay a foundation for learning which provides a new architecture for both academic curriculum and personal formation. In addition, this book offers a practical guide to good practice supported by the lived experience...
Eucharist & Institution Narrative (Alcuin Club Collections, #58)
by Richard F Buxton
Lay Activism and the High Church Movement of the Late Eighteenth Century: The Life and Thought of William Stevens, 1732-1807, by Robert M. Andrews, is the first full-length study of Stevens' life and thought. Historiographically revisionist and contextualised within a neglected history of lay High Church activism, Andrews presents Stevens as an influential High Church layman who brought to Anglicanism not only his piety and theological learning, but his wealth and business acumen. With extensive...
From Easter to Holy Week (Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History, #5)
by Laura Moore
The story of the twentieth-century Liturgical Movement is, more than anything else, about the rediscovery and renewed understanding of the fundamental reality of the Paschal Mystery and of the Paschal identity of the Church. This identity is expressed and celebrated whenever the Body of Christ - every member - welcomes new members in the waters of baptism and feasts with them in the Eucharist, especially as these are celebrated during Holy Week. This book explores this rediscovery, first in t...
The alternative Service Book is the Church of England's Authorized modern language alternative to the Book of Common Prayer and is now in wide-spread use throughout the denomination. The Oxford Pew editions are well established and the publication of the gift edition once again completes the Oxford range with a high quality book. This editon is bound in blue bonded leather and reflects the traditional high quality associated with Oxford fine bindings. This book is intended for all members of the...
The Most Rev Dr George Carey writes to redress two alarming trends. The first is the low priority of the Cross in modern thinking, the second is the multiplication of interpretations of the Cross in an ecumenical age. The author points to the common ground represented by the Cross to correct unnecessary division and controversy among Christian people. "The Gate of Glory" strongly contends that to lose the Cross is to lose everything. To shift it to the circumference of faith is to water down the...
The Anglican parish is uniquely embedded in English culture and society, by virtue both of its antiquity and close allegiance with secular governance. Yet it remains an elusive and surprisingly overlooked theme, whose `place', theologically, is far from certain. Whilst ecclesiastical history has long formed a pillar of academic training for ordained ministry, ecclesiastical geography has not contributing to the often uninformed assumptions about locality in contemporary church debate and mission...
Gregory of Nazianzus on the Trinity and the Knowledge of God
by Christopher Beeley
Gregory of Nazianzus, a 4th-century bishop of Constantinople, receives relatively little attention from modern Western scholars, yet he is one of the most influential theologians in the history of Christian doctrine. Many modern Christians understand their religious beliefs through ideas originally expounded by Gregory, yet probably would not recognize his name. As an advocate for the conceptual understanding of the Trinity, Gregory set precedents for the way his fellow and future Christians wou...
Part of the well-established Welcome to... series from Morehouse Publishing, this book addresses church history from the grassroots perspective of how Anglicans have prayed, thought about, and lived out their faith through the centuries.
David Capron traces his family roots back to Huguenot times and then into West Somerset and Devon where an ancestor made a name for himself as a Poet. The family has always had strong connections with the Fire Brigade, especially in the West Country, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. The move to Rugby where David went to the famous School was instrumental in the initial sowing of the seeds of vocation to become a priest. The struggles at college and then finally ordination in Coventry Cathedral led...
An informative portrait of the modern Church of England, this book traces the process by which the Church grew more independent of the State, stronger in its relations with other Churches, more flexible in its worship, and more democratic in its government and ministry. Whether it is the reorganization of city and country parish life after the war, or the more sensational moral and theological problems of the '60s, or the heart-searching discussions over the ordination of women, Welsby recounts...
In the past decade, cathedrals have blossomed as signs of growth for the Anglican Church in England and Wales. They have opened their doors to growing congregations, to widening participation at the major Christian festivals, and to visitors, pilgrims, and tourists on a changing quest for religious experience and for spiritual fulfilment. In this thought-provoking volume Leslie J. Francis' research group presents ten focused empirical studies that illuminate what is really going on in these cat...