"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 the Rev. Henry Rowley, one of the two survivors of Bishop Mackenzie's clerical staff".
"With Portraits, Maps, and Illustrations".
"Second Edition".
"Originally published in 1867 by Saunders, Otley, and Co. Reprinted 1969 by Negro Universities Press, A Division of Greenwood Publishing Corp., New York". -- verso of t.-p.
"This story of the Universities' Mission to East Central Africa is simply my African Journal adapted to the narrative form". -- Preface.
Contents: Dedication -- Preface dated Oxford, September 1866 -- Preface to the New and Cheaper Edition dated Oxford, May 1867 / H.R. -- [Table of] Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introductory-- The Rovuma -- Return to the Zambesi -- The Zambesi River -- The Shire River -- Settlement of the Highlands -- At Magomero -- Early Days at Magomero -- The Course of Events at Magomero -- The Shadow of Coming Events -- Personal and Other Characteristics of the Manganja and Ajawa -- Troubles at Magomero -- Death of Bishop Mackenzie and Rev. H. De Wint Burrup -- Withdrawal from Magomero -- Settlement near Chibisa's -- Natural History -- Beginning of Trouble at Chibisa's -- The Famine: Death of Rev. H.C. Scudamore -- Journey to Tete: Death of Dr. Dickinson -- Death of Mr. Thornton: Last Days at Chibisa's -- Addenda.