A people's church : a history of the church of England
- Author/Creator:
- Morris, Jeremy, author
- Publication/Creation:
- London : Profile Books Ltd, 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- A people's church : a history of the church of England / Jeremy Morris
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- Table of Contents:
- Preface: the real history of the Church of England -- 1. Prelude: Catholic centuries -- Part I. The age of the monarch -- 2. Reformation and turmoil -- 3. Reaction and settlement -- 4. Revolution in the parishes -- 5. A middle way? The invention of Anglicanism -- 6. The road to Civil War -- 7. Restoration and rebellion -- 8. The great churches -- Part II. The age of the oligarchy -- 9. Consolidation and conformity: the long eighteenth century -- 10. The evangelical revival -- 11. The fortunes of clergy: from patronage to piety -- 12. The crisis and reform of the confessional state -- Part III. The age of the people -- 13. The high church revival -- 14. Where choirs sing: Anglicanism's cultural experiment -- 15. Liberalism -- 16. The church in industrial society -- 17. The reshaping of the Victorian and Edwardian church, bureaucracy and tradition -- 18. The church in a century of conflict -- 19. Decline? The religious 'crisis' of the 1960s and later -- Postscript.
- Summary:
- "A richly detailed history of the Church of England from a top historian who is also an Anglican priest. Weaving social, political, and religious history together with church music and architecture, A People's Church is a clear-eyed look at Anglican history through the ages. This history is as tumultuous as it is long. The transformative 1534-1660 period shaped not only the Church of England but the country itself, encompassing the Reformation, the return to Catholicism under Mary, and the Civil War. This was closely followed by the Restoration of the monarchy in 1688, the expulsion of the Dissenters, and the 1689 Bill of Rights. By the time of John Henry Newman and the Industrial Revolution, the church was fragile. How, then, has it endured? And what of its future?"--Publisher's description.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xv, 464 pages : illustrations (colour), 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937469897802486
- ISBN:
- 1781252491
9781781252499
9781781252505
1781252505 - OCLC Number:
- 1259509208
- Barcode:
- 300000521456
300000507794
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