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The Oxford Movement transformed the nineteenth-century Church of
England with a renewed conception of itself as a spiritual body.
Initiated in the early 1830s by members of the University of
Oxford, it was a response to threats to the established Church
posed by British Dissenters, Irish Catholics, Whig and Radical
politicians, and the predominant evangelical ethos - what Newman
called 'the religion of the day'. The Tractarians believed they
were not simply addressing difficulties within their national
Church, but recovering universal principles of the Christian faith.
To what extent were their beliefs and ideals communicated globally?
Was missionary activity the product of the movement's distinctive
principles? Did their understanding of the Church promote, or
inhibit, closer relations among the churches of the global Anglican
Communion? This volume addresses these questions and more with a
series of case studies involving Europe and the English-speaking
world during the first century of the Movement.
Amidst a world of seemingly endless movement and change many of us
feel a longing to be rooted. It is this instinct that has led many
to value the parish system, and to question the place of new
churches, be they fresh expressions or church plants. This book is
about the instinct to form churches that are of and for a
particular place, and what this might mean in a world where place
is contested, interconnected, and ever-changing. Above all it is an
attempt to move the conversation beyond the binary choices of
parish or non, new or inherited. It offers a powerful and
persuasive vision for a Church that is national only by being
local; a vision that can only be realised as churches continually
become present to their places.
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Purity
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Addie Whittaker, Lacey Whittaker; Cover design or artwork by Kristina Conatser
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Bishop John Shelby Spong, author of Jesus for the Non-Religious,
Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Sins of Scripture, and many
other books, is known for his controversial ideas and fighting for
minority rights. In Eternal Life: A New Vision, a remarkable
spiritual journey about his lifelong struggle with the questions of
God and death, he reveals how he came to a new conviction about
eternal life. God, says spong, is ultimately one, and each of us is
part of that oneness. We do not live on after death as children who
have been rewarded with heaven or punished with hell but as part of
the life and being of God, sharing in God's eternity, which is
beyond the barriers of time and space. spong argues that the
discovery of the eternal can be found within each of us if we go
deeply into ourselves, transcend our limits and become fully human.
By seeking God within, by living each day to its fullest, we will
come to understand how we live eternally.
Always compelling and controversial, Spong, the leading
Christian liberal and pioneer for human rights, wrestles with the
question that all of us will ultimately face. In his final book,
Spong takes us beyond religion and even beyond Christianity until
he arrives at the affirmation that the fully realized human life
empties into and participates in the eternity of God. The pathway
into God turns out to be both a pathway into ourselves and a
doorway into eternal life. To Job's question "If a man (or a woman)
dies, will he (or she) live again?" he gives his answer as a
ringing yes
This is a study of the 66 bishops of James I. Kenneth Fincham
surveys the range of their activities and functions, including
their part in central politics, their role in local society, their
work as diocesan governors enforcing moral and spiritual discipline
and their supervision of the parish clergy. Dr Fincham argues that
the accession of James I marked the restoration of episcopal
fortunes at court and in the localities, seen most clearly in the
revival of the court prelate. The Jacobean episcopate as a group
were active pastors, working under the watchful eye of an informed
supreme governor. During these years, the image of the bishop as
preaching pastor won widespread acceptance and evangelical
churchmanship flourished, to be challenged in the second half of
the reign by Arminian prelates. Dr Fincham's analysis of the early
17th-century episcopate, grounded in contemporary sources, reveals
much about the church of James I, the doctrinal divisions of the
period and the origins of Laudian government in the 1630s. "Prelate
as Pastor" offers a new perspective on the controversies of early
Stuart religious history.
The plays of Shakespeare, the Authorized version of the Bible and
the Book of Common Prayer, all produced in the late 16th/early 17th
centuries, are the three dounding texts of the English nation and
its language. Not only do they share a beauty and a power of style
which have never been equalled: their influence on Anglophone
culture remains profound. Originally produced by Archbishop Cranmer
and his allies to bolster the Tudor secession from Catholicism, the
Pray Book rapidly took on a life of its own. Until the present
century, most Anglicans knew long stretches of the text by heart.
It invaded the style of 17th-century p oets and even 19th century
novelists like George Elliot. It still colours our language and our
way of feeling today, though we hardly know it. In recent years the
Prayer Book has been under attack by modernizers and radicals
within the church itself. On the 450th anniversary of its first
appearance, the time has come to proclaim the value of this work
once more and to recognize it for what it is: a liturgical and
literary masterpiece.
The Anglican conflict over homosexuality has drawn worldwide
interest and divided the church. However, conflict within
Christianity is not new. This book traces the steps by which the
crisis emerged, and reveals the deeper debates within the church
which underlie both the current controversy and much earlier
splits. William L. Sachs contends that the present debate did not
begin with opposition to homosexuality or in advocacy of it. He
argues that, like past tensions, it originates in the diverging
local contexts in which the faith is practiced, and their differing
interpretations of authority and communion. In the aftermath of
colonialism, activists and reformers have taken on prominent roles
for and against the status quo. The crisis reveals a Church in
search of a new, global consensus about the appropriate forms of
belief and mission.
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Impressions of the Heart
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Lacey Whittaker, Justin Whittaker; Cover design or artwork by Kristina Conatser
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In 11 essays by leading Anglican scholars, this book clarifies what
sets Anglicanism apart from other denominations and offers clarity
for the future of the communion.
Between 1700 and 1850 the Church of England was the among the most
powerful and influential religious, social, and political forces in
Britain. This was also a momentous time for the British Empire,
during which it developed and then lost the North American
colonies, extended into India, and settled the colonies of
Australia and New Zealand. Public understanding of this expanding
empire was influentially created and promulgated by the Church of
England as a consequence of its missionary engagement with these
colonies, and its role in providing churches for British settlers.
Rowan Strong examines how that Anglican Christian understanding of
the British Empire shaped the identities both of the people living
in British colonies in North America, Bengal, Australia, and New
Zealand during this period - including colonists, indigenous
peoples, and Negro slaves - and of the English in Britain.
This book examines the various contexts - historical, social, cultural, and ideological - which have shaped the modern efforts of the Anglican tradition at self-understanding. The author’s thesis is that modernity and world mission have changed Anglicanism in ways that are deep and pervasive, just as other Christian traditions have also been profoundly affected by worldwide extension. In the case of the Anglican tradition, however, a distinctive way of relating Christianity to local culture and a distinctive kind of indigenous leader produced a church identity different from other forms of Christendom. Dr Sachs’ aim is to contrast Anglicanism both with the style of Roman Catholicism and with the characteristically Protestant emphasis upon individual conversion apart from concern for the Church and its tradition.
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Created For More
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Lacey Whittaker; Edited by Justin Whittaker; Cover design or artwork by Kristina Conatser
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This book explores the culture of conformity to the Church of England and its liturgy in the period after the Reformation and before the outbreak of the Civil War. It provides a necessary corrective to our view of religion in that period through a serious exploration of the laypeople who conformed, out of conviction, to the Book of Common Prayer. These "prayer book Protestants" formed a significant part of the spectrum of society in Tudor and Stuart England, yet until now they have remained an almost completely uninvestigated group.
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The Keys To The Kingdom
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Lacey Whittaker, Rita Krone; Cover design or artwork by Kristina Conatser
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