"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.
"The Diocese of the Arctic archives project is continuing the arrangement of the previous project, which described two series of the records, for the episcopates of Bishop Archibald Fleming and Bishop Donald Marsh. The third series is the records of Bishop John R. Sperry (1974-1990)."
File consists of "Diary of Journey by Kumotik and Dog-team from Kingmeroo to Signia and back" and includes entries, notes, diagrams, maps and information on various aspects of Eskimo life.
File consists of Eskimo notebook containing a glossary, translations of bible passages and prayers into Eskimo, data on Eskimo children, birds, flowers, and places names etc.
File consists of notebook containing information on Episcopal Tour, June 14-July 31,1928. Includes Chipewyan, Fort Smith, Hay River, Fort Simpson, Fort Norman, Fort Good Hope, Arctic Red River, Fort McPherson, Aklavik, Shingle Point, Herschel Island.
File consists of documents outline Fleming's ideas about the weak points in the mission as it was, and his proposals for an effective re-organization. Includes list of Christmas communicants (Lake Harbour 1911) and register of baptisms at Lake Harbour 1912-1915 by the Rev.J.W, Bilby [baptisms include original names and new baptised names and family relationships]
File consists of lists, correspondence and invoices for medical and cooking supplies. Also includes a request from the Director of the Meteorological Service, Toronto, to take readings.
File consists of correspondence with the Colonial and Continental Church Society amd the arrangement of the Archdeacon's needs and the society's resources.