Anglican Church

This was written in answer to a specific sermon by Smallwood , in which he defended the swearing of formal oaths. MF saw him as a misleader of others, an actual Antichrist, and seized the...

MF herself supplies an introduction explaining the book's intention to address the narrower question of women's ordination and the broader question of the full evaluation of women within the Christian community. She deals briefly...

AA , it appears, was willing to enforce her condemnation of fashionable society to the bitter end, and to add to it an informed critique of current trends in the Anglican Church .

Both these novels feature French and Latin tags in their text, but lack epigraphs at the head of chapters. The Quakers, which Garside calls Opie -esque, is written in a confident, literary style and...

The introductory essay named in the title is a history and an analysis of (in Burke 's phrase a philosophical enquiry into) Dissent in Britain. Its topics include the loss of status for ministers who...

It tells in autobiographical style of the dangerous alternative seductions of loss of faith and of conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism .

She strikes a newly bold, almost an insurrectionary note here, calling upon revolutionary France, indeed, to provide a model. [W]hatever is corrupted must be lopt away, she writes, as people assert their long forgotten...

MF argues here that the Act, with its provision for separate progressive and reactionary streams within the Church , was a disaster, a legalisation of schism, damaging to the church's work and to its image.

PA celebrates recent military victories, and praises Anne for completing Queen Elizabeth 's work in assuring the strength of the Church of England . She provides lavish panegyric for every Stuart monarch, as her ravish'd...

She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...

The date it bears, 1652, may refer to an old-style year that ended on 25 March 1653, since the pamphlet was printed in time for circulation at Aldam's trial in March 1653. It is...

This pamphlet combines a wealth of scripture reference with a fighting political, anti-Anglican message. It opens with the statement that in the past all holy men of God spoke freely and not for hire: preaching...

The title poem of Ellen comes from a story lately reported by newspapers. Other pieces (several of them ballads) deal with historical figures like Queen Elizabeth , Cardinal Wolsey , an anonymous monk, and the...

Her vindication of unmarried women drawing intellectual and social authority from their relationship with the Church of England brings to mind Mary Astell . She appears to have learned from women writers like Sarah Trimmer

Having grown up in London and at an English boarding school (where his interest in oriental culture was already remarked on), Watts married a wealthy American and became a highEpiscopalian priest in the USA...