"First published in 2002 by SCM Press. This paperback edition published in 2003". -- verso of t.-p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The purpose of this book is twofold. It provides brief portraits of forty-eight bishops who were in office from about the time of the 1832 Reform Bill, when the Church of England as well as the nation as a whole entered a period of continuous change, until the final years of the twentieth century." -- Intro., p. [1].
Beeson "ends by asking why such able and interesting bishops are now in short supply and wonders whether the hectically busy managerial role assumed by the bishops of the new millennium represents a betrayal of the Episcopal office and a consequent weakening of the Church's witness in an incredibly secularized society. Looking not far ahead, the likely impact of women bishops is also discussed". -- back cover.
Contents: Acknowledgements / TB -- Introduction -- The aristocrats and the courtiers -- The scholars -- The statesmen -- The prophets -- The pastors -- The controversialists -- The headmasters -- The church reformers -- The social reformers -- The missionaries -- The evangelists -- The odd men out -- The pioneers : looking ahead -- Bibliography -- Index.
OTCH Note: The bishops described are in order of discussion: Edward Stuart Talbot, William Cecil, Charles Sumner, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Robin Woods, Connop Thirlwall, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Mandell Creighton, Kenneth Kirk, Ian Ramsey, Archibald Campbell Tait, Randall Davidson, William Temple, George Bell, John Percival, Edward Lee Hicks, John A.T. Robinson, E.R. (Ted) Wickham, Edward King, William Walsham How, Edward Woods, Launcelot Fleming, Herbert Hensley Henson, Ernest William Barnes, Frederick Temple, George Ridding, Neville Gorton, Geoffrey Fisher, Edward Stanley, Charles James Blomfield, Samuel Wilberforce, Leslie Hunter, James Fraser, Brooke Foss Westcott, Charles Gore, George Augustus Selwyn, John William Colenso, Charles Mackenzie, Frank Weston, Joost de Blank, Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram, Walter Carey, Christopher Chavasse, Cuthbert Bardsley, Henry Phillpotts, T.B. Strong, Mervyn Stockwood and Douglas Feaver.
"[By] Alan M.G. Stephenson, B.Litt., M.A., D.Phil., Vice-Principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford".
"Published for the Church Historical Society".
Includes bibliographical references, bibliography (p. [348]-367) and index.
The author "has written a definitive history of the First Lambeth Conference, giving the story not only of the Conference itself but of the stirrings in the different parts of the Anglican Communion which led to its being planned, and in so doing he corrects misconceptions about the ecclesiastical events of the period which histories of the Church have commonly encouraged. The beginnings of the Lambeth Conference are of importance for understanding the growth of self-awareness in the Anglican Communion and of synodical government in Anglican provinces beyond the British Isles. It was a far more significant event that has hitherto been realized. This book is published in the centenary year of the Conference, and on the eve of the Conference of 1968". -- inside dust jacket blurb.
"As is so often in history, the begetters of the First Lambeth Conference created something very different from what they had intended. There came from Canada the desire for an Anglican Synod or Council which would speak with authority on the doctrinal turmoil of the time and would cleanse and protect the Anglican Church from insidious teaching. Instead there was inaugurated a series of Conferences of such a character as to prove through a century that there can be no Pan-Anglican authoritative Synod and no Anglican Patriarchate, but a family of Churches able to advise one another collectively on the understanding of the Faith and of the Church's contemporary needs and tasks while possessing no organ of formal authority other than that of the Synods of each Anglican Church. The desire for a formal authority collapsed, but through the series of Lambeth Conferences, a growing, undefined, moral authority has been felt, always within the Anglican Churches and sometimes beyond them". -- Foreword, p. [xiii].
"The Lambeth Conference is an assembly of archbishops and bishops from the whole Anglican Communion, which meets, at intervals of roughly ten years, in Lambeth Palace, London, under the presidency of the Archbishop of Canterbury. This episcopal gathering was named a 'conference' by Archbishop Charles Thomas Longley at its first calling in 1867, and this designation has been retained ever since; because it has never been, strictly speaking, a 'synod' or 'council' of the Church, but is more aptly described as a 'quasi-conciliar body'. ". -- Intro., p. [1].
Contents: List of Illustrations -- Notes on Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury / Michael Cantuar i.e. Ramsey -- Preface dated Ripon Hall, Oxford, 16 March 1967 / Alan M.G. Stephenson -- Introduction -- The Church of England and the Emergence of the Moderate High Churchmen -- Established Anglicanism in Ireland and Unestablished Anglicanism in Scotland -- Anglicanism in America and the first three Requests for an Anglican Council -- Anglicanism in the Colonies and the Call for a National or Imperial Synod -- The Pan-Anglicanism of Archbishop Charles Thomas Longley -- Revision of Canon Law creates a Demand for a National Synod -- 'Essays and Reviews' creates a Demand for a National Council -- Bishop Gray's Request for a National Synod after the Colenso Judgement -- The Proposal made by the Canadian Church in 1865 for a National or General Synod, and the Reaction of Canterbury Convocation -- The "Fulford-Whitehouse" Meeting and the Replies of the Bishops to Longley's Invitation to the First Lambeth Conference -- From the Publication of the first Programme to the Eve of the Conference -- The First Lambeth Conference: The Tuesday and Wednesday Sessions. General Councils, Reunion, and Synods -- The First Lambeth Conference: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Colenso and the Final Court of Appeal -- Public Reaction to the Encyclical, the Resolutions, and the Committee Reports of the First Lambeth Conference -- The First Lambeth Conference: A Concluding Estimate of its Importance -- Appendix A: The Declaration suggested by Bishop Fulford -- Appendix B: The Resolutions suggested by Bishop Gray -- Appendix C: The Confidential Programme sent out by Archbishop Longley -- Appendix D: The Reply of York Convocation to the Canadian Memorial -- Appendix E: The Letters sent by Archbishop Longley to the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchs and Bishops -- Select Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Biblical References.
"[By] H.G.G. Herklots, M.A., Canon of Peterborough".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A leading student of modern missionary expansion has written: 'The day when a church becomes a sending church, a missionary church, is among the most fateful in its history. When it moves across the seas to be translated in other soil, it does of necessity change, either by conscious and willing adaptation or else through its very resistance to change. ....' This is not the whole story. It is not only overseas that change takes place. Developments there affect the Church at home; and very soon the sending church becomes a receiving Church -- though it may often find that it is easier to give than to receive. Some of the ways in which this has happened to the Church of England through the growth, in many parts of the world, of what has come to be called the Anglican Communion, are traced in the pages which follow". -- Preface.
Contents: Preface dated Minister Precincts, Peterborough, 1961 / H.G.G.H. -- Traffiques and Discoveries -- Religion Stands on Tiptoe -- Nursing Care and Protection -- Episcopacy Transplanted -- The Church Moves East -- The Church of England in India -- From Coromandel to Colchester -- The Society for Missions to Africa and the East -- Financial Returns -- To New Zealand and Back -- From Capetown via Canada to Lambeth -- Archbishops in Canada -- Light from the East -- Varieties of Independence -- Provinces in Africa -- Charity Begins Abroad -- Some Conclusions -- Index (a) People and Places -- (b) Authors Cited.
"By A. Theodore Wirgman, B.D., D.C.L., Late Scholar of S. Mary Magdalene College, Cambridge; Vice-Provost of S. Mary's Collegiate Church, Port Elizabeth, South Africa"
"Originally published in 1895 by Longmans, Green, and Co., London. Reprinted 1969 by Negro Universities Press, A Division of Greenwood Publishing Corp., New York". -- verso of t.-p.
"I shall endeavour to show first of all, by a brief historical sketch of the South African people, how South Africa came to be what it is to-day. Unless people understand South Africa and its people, it is impossible to understand the story of the South African Church, or the diverse problems that lie before us in the present day. South Africa is a country with a very strong national feeling of local patriotism. The fact that the great majority of its European inhabitants are of Dutch and French Huguenot descent, makes the position of our Church quite different to that which it occupies in Australia and New Zealand. .... Friendly harmony with the Dutch Reformed authorities, with a view to as much co-operation as is possible without perilling the true basis of catholic re-union , is our obvious duty. .... We must also remember that we are the 'Church of Reconciliation'. We have not only to work for corporate re-union, but we have to bind together the South African people, and strive to knit once more the ties which were sundered by the cruel civil war of 1881, and cause English and Dutch alike to forget the bitter memories of Majuba Hill, and work for a United South Africa. Thus and thus only shall we be enabled to do our great missionary work to the myriads of heathens around us.". -- Intro.
Contents: Introduction dated S. Mary's Rectory, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Feast of S. Michael and all Angels i.e. 29 September. 1894 / A. Theodore Wirgman -- The Making of South Africa -- The Coming of the English -- The Social, Political, and Religious Condition of South Africa in 1847, being the year in which Robert Great was Consecrated First Bishop of Cape Town -- Robert Gray, and the Beginnings of His Work in South Africa -- The Subdivision of the Diocese of Cape Town, and the Founding of the Dioceses of Grahamstown and Natal under the Bishop of Cape Town as Metropolitan. The Beginnings of Provincial Organization, Synodical Action, and Missionary Work -- The Conflict with Erastianism and Heresy, as Manifested in the Trials of Rev. W. Long and Bishop Colenso, which resulted in the Ultimate Freedom of the Colonial Churches from the Trammels of the Civil Power -- South Africa under Sir G. Grey, Sir Philip Wodehouse, and Sir Henry Barkly. The Provincial Synod of 1879, the Constitution and Canons of the Province, and the Death of Bishop Gray, the First Metropolitan of South Africa -- South Africa under Sir Bartle Frere, Sir Hercules Robinson, and Sir Henry Loch. The Provincial Synod of 1876. The Grahamstown Cathedral Case, and the Provincial Synod of 1883. The Trinity Church (Cape Town) Case, the Provincial Synod of 1891, and the Present Condition of the Church in South Africa -- Appendix: Statistics.
"By the Right Rev. A. Hamilton Baynes, D.D. (Oxon) ; D.D. (S. Andrews), Sometime Bishop of Natal".
Edited by T.H. Dodson, M.A., Principal of S. Paul's Missionary College, Burgh; and Canon of Lincoln Cathedral and G.R. Bullock-Webster, M.A., Hon. Canon of Ely Cathedral. With a general preface by the Bishop of S. Albans". -- p. [i].
"With illustrations and map".
"First printed 1908". -- verso of t.-p.
Includes bibliography (p. [220]) and index.
"In the following slight sketch of South African Church expansion I have had two classes of readers in mind. First, those who are chiefly interested in the fascinating story of the outward growth -- the facts, the men, the places, the buildings, the gradual expansion from the 'day of small things', from one diocese to ten, by which 'the little one has become a thousand'; and, secondly, those who are even more interested in the inward principles, the doctrinal and constitutional questions of which the outward developments are the product and expression". -- Author's Preface.
Contents: General Preface dated Highams, Woodford Green, Essex, November 10, 1907 / Edgar Alban i.e. Edgar Jacob, Bishop of St. Alban's -- Editor's Preface / T.H.D., G.R.,B.-W. -- Author's Preface dated Nottingham, May 1908 / A. Hamilton Baynes, Bp. -- Race Problems -- Beginnings of Church Work -- The Colenso Controversy -- The Province of South Africa -- Appendix A: Later Stages of the Natal Controversy -- Appendix B: Letter of Bishop Cotterill to Archbishop Tait -- General Index -- Bibliography.
Colophon: Printed by A.R. Mowbray and Co. Ltd., Oxford.
"Our Yearbook looks at a few of these pioneers and pilgrims, from the 18th century right through to the 21st. Their work has benefited the lives of thousands, even millions, and we hope their stories will give cause for celebration and serve as a taster for what is yet to come". -- Intro.
Contents: Introduction -- Foreword / Mano Rumalshah, General Secretary, USPG -- The Eighteenth Century -- The Nineteenth Century -- The Twentieth Century -- The Late Twentieth Century.
The 2001 Yearbook of the USPG produced to commemorate the society's 300th anniversary. Includes numerous small vignettes and biographies divided by century.
"Our Yearbook looks at a few of these pioneers and pilgrims, from the 18th century right through to the 21st. Their work has benefited the lives of thousands, even millions, and we hope their stories will give cause for celebration and serve as a taster for what is yet to come". -- Intro.
Contents: Introduction -- Foreword / Mano Rumalshah, General Secretary, USPG -- The Eighteenth Century -- The Nineteenth Century -- The Twentieth Century -- The Late Twentieth Century.
The 2001 Yearbook of the USPG produced to commemorate the society's 300th anniversary. Includes numerous small vignettes and biographies divided by century.