The Church of England in Industrialising Society

The Church of England in Industrialising Society
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Publisher : Boydell Press
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 1843830140
ISBN-13 : 9781843830146
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis The Church of England in Industrialising Society by : Michael Francis Snape

The Church of England in the 18th century is seen as failing its congregation in the industrialising areas; specific issues are set out. Was the Church of England an ailing or a healthy institution in the eighteenth century? Responding to the slings and arrows of its Victorian critics, ever since the publication in the 1930s of Norman Sykes' Church and State inEngland in the Eighteenth Century, modern scholarship has tended to stress the competence of the Church's leadership at a national and diocesan level and its importance and popularity for the nation at large. Moreover, in recent years, several studies have emerged which argue a strong case for the multi-faceted appeal of the Church of England at the local level. However, although this revisionist scholarship helps to underline the importance of religion for eighteenth-century English society, it fails to account for the haemorrhaging of support which the Church of England experienced in the first half of the nineteenth century. With reference to the situation in England's largest parish, this new study of the Church of England's fortunes in the eighteenth century demonstrates its long-term failure to retain the loyalty and affections of many men and women in the country's industrialising areas. In drawing attention to hitherto neglected issues such as the situation of the Church of England's non-graduate clergy and the failure of its ecclesiastical courts, it presents a post-revisionist case which challenges the existing academic consensus on the situation and success of this faltering institution. Dr M.F. SNAPE teaches in the Department of Theology at the University of Birmingham

The Diocesan Revival in the Church of England c.1800-1870

The Diocesan Revival in the Church of England c.1800-1870
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Publisher : Clarendon Press
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 9780191542961
ISBN-13 : 0191542962
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Diocesan Revival in the Church of England c.1800-1870 by : Arthur Burns

This book provides the first account of an important but neglected aspect of the history of the nineteenth-century Church of England: the reform of its diocesan structures. It illustrates how one of the most important institutions of Victorian England responded at a regional level to the pastoral challenge of a rapidly changing society. Providing a new perspective on the impact of both the Oxford Movement and the Ecclesiastical Commission on the Church, The Diocesan Revival in the Church of England shows that an appreciation of the dynamics of diocesan reform has implications for our understanding of secular as well as ecclesiastical reform in the early nineteenth century.

The Church of England and Victorian Oxford

The Church of England and Victorian Oxford
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781666938791
ISBN-13 : 1666938793
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis The Church of England and Victorian Oxford by : Michael J. Turner

Drawing together themes in Church of England history, the activity of second-generation leaders of the Oxford Movement, social change, secularization, and Victorian recreation, The Church of England and Victorian Oxford explains the difficulties faced by Churchmen who tried to use self-improvement and leisure to accomplish religious goals.

The Nineteenth-Century Church and English Society

The Nineteenth-Century Church and English Society
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 0521657113
ISBN-13 : 9780521657112
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis The Nineteenth-Century Church and English Society by : Frances Knight

The first study of lay people and parish clergy in the nineteenth-century Church of England.

The Prevenient Piety of Samuel Wesley, Sr

The Prevenient Piety of Samuel Wesley, Sr
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 9780810860582
ISBN-13 : 0810860589
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Prevenient Piety of Samuel Wesley, Sr by : Arthur Alan Torpy

For the better part of two centuries, Wesley scholars have been given a picture of the family of John Wesley that focuses positively upon the relationships of John and his brother Charles and his mother Susanna. What has come down to us about John Wesley's father--Samuel Wesley, Sr.--is a mixture of good and bad character traits, mostly seemingly inconsequential with respect to the making of Methodism under John and Charles. Now with Arthur Torpy's work, we have reason to think differently. Samuel Wesley, Sr. was a complex person whose thoughts, actions, and convictions were based on his understanding and practice of his tradition, experience, scripture, and reasoning. The Prevenient Piety of Samuel Wesley, Sr. examines the life of Samuel Wesley, exploring the influences of his early Dissenting upbringing, his Oxford education, subsequent published writings, and post 1709 sermons.

A People's Church

A People's Church
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Publisher : Profile Books
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : 9781782830535
ISBN-13 : 1782830537
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis A People's Church by : Jeremy Morris

'A masterly, vivid and original sketch, not just of the history but of the culture (or cultures) of the Church of England across nearly five centuries.' Rowan Williams, poet and former Archbishop of Canterbury It is hard to comprehend the last 500 years of England's history without understanding the Church of England. From its roots in Catholicism through to the present day, this is the extraordinary history of a familiar but much-misunderstood institution. The Church has frequently been divided between high and low, Evangelical and Anglo-Catholic. For its first 150 years people sacrificed their lives to defend it; the Anglican Church is and has always been defined by its complicated relationship to the state and power. As Jeremy Morris shows, the story of the Church - central to British life - has never been straightforward. Weaving social, political and religious context together with the significance of its music and architecture, A People's Church skilfully illuminates a complex and pre-eminent institution.

Mighty England Do Good

Mighty England Do Good
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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages : 527
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ISBN-10 : 9780802869463
ISBN-13 : 0802869467
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Mighty England Do Good by : Steven S. Maughan

In late Victorian and Edwardian England, says Steven Maughan, foreign missions had a broad resonance and significance not adequately explored by historians of English culture. Mighty England Do Good fills that lacuna by examining the rapid growth of foreign missions in the Church of England between 1850 and 1915, culminating at the height of the missionary enterprise in Britain. Maughan's book bridges the gaps between religious, cultural, and imperial history to give a full picture of the movement's importance. Maughan explores Anglicanism as a microcosm of the larger religious culture of Britain, particularly in light of the expanding British empire. This book provides a multidimensional reassessment of the power that foreign missions had to shape belief, institutions, culture, and practice not only within the Church of England but also in the broader culture of the time.

The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History

The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 1060
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ISBN-10 : 9780191044939
ISBN-13 : 0191044938
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History by : David Hey

The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History is the most authoritative guide available to all things associated with the family and local history of the British Isles. It provides practical and contextual information for anyone enquiring into their English, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh origins and for anyone working in genealogical research, or the social history of the British Isles. This fully revised and updated edition contains over 2,000 entries from adoption to World War records. Recommended web links for many entries are accessed and updated via the Family and Local History companion website. This edition provides guidance on how to research your family tree using the internet and details the full range of online resources available. Newly structured for ease of use, thematic articles are followed by the A-Z dictionary and detailed appendices, which includefurther reading. New articles for this edition are: A Guide for Beginners, Links between British and American Families, Black and Asian Family History, and an extended feature on Names. With handy research tips, a full background to the social history of communities and individuals, and an updated appendix listing all national and local record offices with their contact details, this is an essential reference work for anyone wanting advice on how to approach genealogical research, as well as a fascinating read for anyone interested in the past.

Victorian Class Conflict?

Victorian Class Conflict?
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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9781837641918
ISBN-13 : 1837641919
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Victorian Class Conflict? by : John T Smith

Villages and towns in the Victorian era saw an expansion in educational provision, and witnessed the rise of the elementary teaching profession, often provided by local clergymen. This book investigates the social and economic relationships of such clergymen and teachers who worked co-operatively and at times in competition with each other.

A Century of Theological and Religious Studies in Britain, 1902-2002

A Century of Theological and Religious Studies in Britain, 1902-2002
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 0197263054
ISBN-13 : 9780197263051
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis A Century of Theological and Religious Studies in Britain, 1902-2002 by : Ernest Nicholson

The essays in this volume give an account of how the agenda for theology and religious studies was set and reset throughout the twentieth century - by rapid and at times cataclysmic changes (wars, followed by social and academic upheavals in the 1960s), by new movements of thought, by a bounty of archaeological discoveries, and by unprecedented archival research. Further new trends of study and fresh approaches (existentialist, Marxian, postmodern) have in more recent years generated new quests and horizons for reflection and research. Theological enquiry in Great Britain was transformed in the late nineteenth century through the gradual acceptance of the methods and results of historical criticism. New agendas emerged in the various sub-disciplines of theology and religious studies. Some of the issues raised by biblical criticism, for example Christology and the 'quest of the historical Jesus', were to remain topics of controversy throughout the twentieth century. In other important and far-reaching ways, however, the agendas that seemed clear in the early part of the century were abandoned, or transformed and replaced, not only as a result of new discoveries and movements of thought, but also by the unfolding events of a century that brought the appalling carnage and horror of two world wars. Their aftermath brought a shattering of inherited world views, including religious world views, and disillusion with the optimistic trust in inevitable progress that had seemed assured in many quarters and found expression in widely influential 'liberal' theological thought of the time. The centenary of the British Academy in 2002 has provided a most welcome opportunity for reconsidering the contribution of British scholarship to theological and religious studies in the last hundred years.