" This is an important study in two respects. First, it completes the overthrow of what has been the dominant interpretation of early Stuart ecclesiastical politics. At the same time, it is an exempla...
Called "an amazing book" by Jurgen Moltmann, this volume reveals the Protestant background of Anglican Christianity -- a background that is virtually unknown today. Paul Zahl shows how present day Ang...
Jonathan Edwards lived in an age in which the doctrine of the Trinity was sometimes openly repudiated and more often quietly ignored. But as this important book shows, Edwards in fact took care to cre...
Standing in stark contrast to the conservative churchmen of Victorian Britain, the Anglican clergyman Stewart Headlam was a passionately progressive reformer, a champion of the working poor---especial...
Edited extracts from the writings of Thomas Cranmer, creator of The Book of Common Prayer, and Tudor martyr. Thomas Cranmer was a notable ecclesiastical statesman and much involved in the separatio...
In the late 18th and 19th centuries English dioceses were large and bishops few. Most, aristocratic high churchmen, many from academia, were rarely seen in their dioceses and had little connection to ...
Barry Spurr's eagerly-awaited, definitive study of T.S. Eliot's Anglo-Catholic belief and practice shows how the poet's religion shaped his life and work for almost forty years, until his death in 196...
As the world grows increasingly complex, as society becomes more and more fractured, as from day to day and even moment to moment basic attitudes and convictions shake and personal loyalties shift, hu...
"Other scholars have addressed the liberal-conservative dynamics in American religion, but few have addressed the issue on a more global scale. This is an impressive book."--Randall Balmer, author of ...
Today, the statement that Anglicans are fond of the Fathers and keen on patristic studies looks like a platitude. Like many platitudes, it is much less obvious than one might think. Indeed, it has a l...
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