Anglican Church

She dated her prefatory material February 1934.She explains in her second chapter the background to this war: the ancient custom of devoting one tenth of each year's produce to religious purposes. From the...

FPC waded into High Church debates over the Bible, challenging institutionalised forms of Christianity and the dogma of Infallible Inspiration, in her theological treatise Broken Lights, An Inquiry into the Present Condition and...

Matthew Parker , Archbishop of Canterbury, published at her own request AB 's An Apologie in Defence of the Churche of Englande, translated from the Latin church settlement written by John Jewel , Bishop...

The Burges children's father, though he is against Pusey ism, is broad-minded about Puseyites as he is in other respects: visitors to their house include not only Anglicans but Moravians , a Baptist ...

In this remarkably self-assured letter SH takes a challenging, uncompromising tone. She urges Geers to leave the mainstream (schismatic) Anglican Church , now it has vowed loyalty to William and Mary , and to enter...

In the second half of her essay, DG calls for the creation of a women's Order within the Church of England to enable women to make a positive contribution to social good while still operating...

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...

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...

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...

Having Cyras seek his fortune in New Zealand gives EW occasion to comment on the apparent vulgarity of the English born in the colonies. When he goes to the Haymarket Theatre with one such woman...

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.

Each writer distinguishes sharply between the way Quaker s live in love, employing ministers chosen by God, and the way Anglican s and others live in the world, under ministers chosen by man. MF writes...

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...

Naomi Royde-Smith noted that almost all of its characters have names, pseudonyms and aliases, and that it makes some criticism of the Church of England as well as the Catholic Church (but not of...

The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan , William Lovett