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Sydney Anglicans and the Threat to World Anglicanism
Sydney Anglicans, always ultra-conservative in terms of liturgy, theology and personal morality, have increasingly modelled themselves on sixteenth century English Puritanism. Over the past few decades, they have added radical congregationalism to the mix. They have altered church services, challenged church order, and relentlessly opposed all attempts to ordain women as priests, let alone bishops. Muriel Porter unpacks how Australia's largest and, until recently, richest diocese developed its ideological fervour, and explores the impact it is having both in Australia and the Anglican Communion.
Muriel Porter is a leading lay Anglican in Australia (member of General Synod since 1987; member of GS Standing Committee since 1989; member Melbourne Synod since 1984; member Melbourne Diocesan Council since 1985, formerly member of General Synod Doctrine Commission); she is the author of numerous books and journal articles on contemporary church issues, the most recent being Sex, Power and the Clergy, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2003; The New Puritans: The Rise of Fundamentalism in the Anglican Church, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2006;and Women in Purple: Women Bishops in Australia (Voices: Quarterly Essays on Religion in Australia), John Garratt Publishing, Melbourne, 2008. She is also an occasional commentator/opinion writer in mainstream and Anglican press, and a professional journalist and journalism academic, formerly senior lecturer in journalism at RMIT University, Melbourne, and for the past 20 years, Australia correspondent for Church Times (UK).
Contents: Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Anglicanism in Sydney today; Sydney Anglicans; how it came to this; Tensions: Sydney and the Anglican communion; Tensions: Sydney and the Australian church; Women: equal but different; Current challenges; Conclusion: the end of the experiment?; Select bibliography; Index.
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Costly Communion
Costly Communion explores a variety of twentieth century Anglican theological responses to concerns regarding Eucharistic doctrine and church order in both English and African contexts and seeks to provide insight into the current divisions confronting the Anglican Communion.
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The Christian Monitors
This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlining the Church of England's key role in the increase of voluntary, charitable, and religious societies, Brent Sirota examines how these groups drove the modernization of Britain through such activities as settling immigrants throughout the empire, founding charity schools, distributing devotional literature, and evangelizing and educating merchants, seamen, and slaves throughout the British empire-all leading to what has been termed the \"age of benevolence.\"
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Christian Law
Christian Law: Contemporary Principles offers a detailed comparison of the laws of churches across ten distinct Christian traditions worldwide: Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, Reformed, Presbyterian, United, Congregational and Baptist. From this comparison, Professor Doe proposes that all denominations of the faith share common principles in spite of their doctrinal divisions; and that these principles reveal a concept of 'Christian law' and contribute to a theological understanding of global Christian identity. Adopting a unique interdisciplinary approach, the book provides comprehensive coverage on the sources and purposes of church law, the faithful (lay and ordained), the institutions of church governance, discipline and dispute resolution, doctrine and worship, the rites of passage, ecumenism, property and finance, as well as church, State and society. This is an invaluable resource for lawyers and theologians who are engaged in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue, showing how dogmas may divide but laws link Christians across traditions.
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Wesley and the Anglicans
Why did the Wesleyan Methodists and the Anglican evangelicals divide during the middle of the eighteenth century? Many would argue that the division between them was based narrowly on theological matters, especially predestination and perfection. Ryan Danker suggests, however, that politics was a major factor throughout, driving the Wesleyan Methodists and Anglican evangelicals apart. Methodism was perceived to be linked with the radical and seditious politics of the Cromwellian period. This was a charged claim in a post-Restoration England. Likewise Danker explores the political force of resurgent Tory influence under George III, which exerted more pressure on evangelicals to prove their loyalty to the Establishment. These political realities made it hard for evangelicals in the Church of England to cooperate with Wesley and meant that all their theological debates were politically inflected. Rich in detail, here is a book for all who seek deeper insight into a critical juncture in the development of evangelicalism and early Methodism.
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Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans
Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans is the first sustained
study of inter-Orthodox relations, the special role of the Anglican
Church, and the problems of Orthodox nationalism in the modern age.
Despite many challenges, the interwar years were a time of intense
creativity in the Russian Orthodox Church. Russian émigrés, freed
from enforced isolation in the wake of the Russian Revolution,
found themselves in close contact with figures from other Orthodox
churches and from the Roman Catholic Church and all varieties of
Protestant confessions. For many reasons, Russian exiles found
themselves drawn to the Anglican Church in particular. The interwar
years thus witnessed a concentrated effort to bridge the gap
between Orthodox and Anglican. Geffert's book is a detailed history
of that effort. It is the story of efforts toward rapprochement by
two churches and their ultimate failure to achieve formal unity.
The same political, diplomatic, historical, personal, and religious
forces that first inspired contact were the ones that ultimately
undermined the effort. Bryn Geffert recounts the history of an
important chapter in the history of Christian ecumenism, one that
is relevant to contemporary efforts to achieve meaningful
interfaith dialogue.
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