Anglican and Episcopalian Churches Books

Austin Farrer is often called the one genius the Church of England produced in the 20th Century. His innovative ideas crossed a host of theological disciplines.Assessing his continuing importance and introducing him to a new generation of readers, Austin...

Rodes examines the legal materials (cases, statutes, canons, and measures) used in the English experience of updating the medieval synthesis of church and state.

Where should one start in writing about the Spirituality of Anglicanism? Countryman makes an illuminating choice in beginning where Anglicanisn, spirituality and poetry meet.

You're wandering around lost through an endless forest full of beauty, darkness, and despair and you come upon a broken-down fishing boat. You are extremely exhausted from trying to find the path that leads you out so you take refuge on the broken-down...

This is both a lively introduction to the history and expression of the rich and diverse Anglican spiritual tradition and a strikingly original contribution to the issues that underlie its current crisis and threaten to tear it apart. Barlett suggests...

Clericalism is everywhere in the Christian life and perhaps not where you might expect. It elevates certain models, vocations, or ways of being Church in such a way as to diminish others. In Priesthood for all Believers, Fr Simon Cuff argues that a...

"Wright's book establishes, persuasively, that Coleridge's radicalism, both political and theological, was indeed fleeting and that Coleridge made a very significant contribution to what has been called 'the gathering forces of Toryism.' Further, the...

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...

Frequently described as Anglicanism's most creative twentieth century theologian, Austin Farrer’s impact on Anglican theology is considerable.Published to mark the 150th anniversary of Keble College, of which Farrer was Warden, this book brings...

Pre-Tractarian Oxford: A Reminiscence Of The Oriel Noetics is a historical book written by William Tuckwell in 1909. The book provides a detailed account of the intellectual and social climate of Oxford University during the early 19th century, prior to...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The Thirty-Nine Articles, together with the Book of Common Prayer, form the foundation of Anglican theology. Yet there are very few extended treatments of them. Oliver O'Donovan relates the Articles to the exhilarating and troubled century in which they...

Preface and Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction PART I: ANTI-CATHOLICISM AS A SOCIOLOGICAL PROCESS IN IRISH HISTORY Plantation to the United Irishmen: 1600-1799 Union to Partition: 1800-1920 Northern Ireland: 1921-1997 PART II: SOCIOLOGICAL...

This short history of Christianity in England since the close of the Middle Ages was first published for the Religious Book Club in 1953• It was immediately welcomed. The Church Times called it `a miracle of accomplished comprehension', and the...

The Worthy Communicant: A Discourse Of The Nature Effects And Blessings Consequent To The Worthy Receiving Of The Lord�������s Supper is a book written by Jeremy Taylor. The book is a discourse on the nature, effects, and blessings that come with the...

""A Sketch Of The Life And Times Of The Rev. Sydney Smith: Based On Family Documents And The Recollections Of Personal Friends"" is a biographical book written by Stuart J. Reid. The book provides a detailed account of the life and times of the Rev...

The Curates of Riversdale V1: Recollections in the Life of a Clergyman, Written by Himself is a memoir written by Moses Margoliouth that chronicles his life as a clergyman in the town of Riversdale. The book is divided into several chapters that cover...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Thomas William Allies is a book written by Mary H. Allies in 1907. It is a biographical account of the life of Thomas William Allies, a prominent English theologian and historian of the 19th century. The book covers Allies' early life, education, and...

Ecclesiological Essays is a collection of essays written by J. Wickham Legg and originally published in 1905. The book delves into the study of ecclesiology, the branch of theology concerned with the nature and structure of the Christian Church. Legg's...

""A Pastoral Bishop"" is a memoir written by Thomas Isaac Ball about Alexander Chinnery-Haldane, who was a bishop of the Argyll and the Isles in Scotland. The book was originally published in 1907 and provides a detailed account of Chinnery-Haldane's...

The Life and Letters of William John Butler is a biographical work that details the life and accomplishments of William John Butler, who served as the Dean of Lincoln and Vicar of Wantage in the late 19th century. The book was written by Butler himself...

""Snapshots From The North Pacific: Letters Written By Bishop Ridley Of Caledonia (1904)"" is a historical book written by Alice J. Janvrin. The book is a collection of letters written by the Bishop of Caledonia, William Ridley, during his time in the...

The Recollections of a Bishop is a memoir written by G. F. Browne and published in 1915. The book provides an intimate look at the life and experiences of a bishop in the Church of England during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Browne covers a...

""Henry Nicholson Ellacombe: Honorable Canon Of Bristol, Vicar Of Bitton And Rural Dean, 1822-1916: A Memoir"" is a biography written by Arthur William Hill and published in 1919. The book is a tribute to the life and work of Henry Nicholson Ellacombe, a...

This book offers a fresh social-scientific analysis of how theologically conservative male clergy respond to the ordination of women to the priesthood and their consecration as bishops within the Church of England.

When it comes to baptism there is a profound disconnect between what churches and clergy understand it to mean and the understanding of those non-churchgoing families seeking the rite for their children.Clergy and regular churchgoers feel that the church...

Anglicanism is one of the largest and most widely dispersed of all religious traditions. How it reached this status is replete with irony and with conflict. The origins of Anglicanism lie in the Church of England, still its largest branch and arguably...

How language works in the worship of the church has been vigorously debated during the period of liturgical revision in the twentieth century coming at the end of what is known as the Liturgical Movement. Focussing upon the Church of England and the...

Throughout English history bishops have had a prominent role in both Church and State. They have been involved in the making and unmaking of monarchs; have played a leading part in national and local government; have sought to uphold spiritual values...

Trevor Beeson was Dean of Winchester Cathedr al for nearly 9 years. Over that period he kept a diary, whi ch provides a fascinating account of day-to-day events there . Through these pages readers can appreciate the work of the Dean himself. '

For those on the borderline of Christianity, attracted by its traditions, myth, ritual and community but wary of pietism or dogmatic narrow-mindedness.

Examines the controversial establishment of the first Anglican Church in Boston in 1686, and how later, political leaders John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Wilkes exploited the disputes as political dynamite together with taxation, trade, and the...

Since the onset of the global economic crisis, everyone has a view on how to fix capitalism - everyone, it seems, except the Church of England. Given the widespread diagnosis of moral malaise in the marketplace, one might have expected the established...