For almost 200 years, the city of Birmingham has been a key
location for the training of clergy. From 1828 Anglican clergy
studied at the Queen's College and in 1881 the Methodist Church
developed their own training facility at Handsworth College. In
this book, Andrew Chandler tells the tale of these two colleges.
This is a history not simply of the creation and evolution of these
two religious institutions, but a study full of significance for
the wider history of Christianity in British society across the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The foundation of both colleges
occurred in a confident age of civic progress and reform and their
subsequent histories reveal much that was at work in the experience
of the British churches at large. They were at first expressions of
denominational identity and a determination to educate a class of
clergy. In time they found themselves negotiating new prospects
within the ecumenical currents of a later age and the deepening
realities of secularization. In 1970 they united. This is a book
which blends local, national and international dimensions and also
shows how the two theological colleges came to embrace all kinds of
intellectual, cultural, social and political history in a period of
restless change.
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