Anglican and Episcopal History back issues from December 2003:
NEW FEATURE AVAILABLE ON HISTORICAL SOCIETY WEB SITE
Dec 01, 2003; ... A new service is now available for those who visit http://www.hsec-usa.org, enabling them to locate titles of publications that have appeared in our Society's journal from 1932 to the present. Anyone may use this searchable database and find items by entering (1) an author's last name, (2) a key ...
INVITATION FOR GRANTS APPLICATIONS
Dec 01, 2003; ... The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church invites applications from individual scholars or groups for grants to support significant research, conferences, and publications relating to the history of the Church of England, the Anglican communion worldwide, and the Anglican and Episcopal ...
Christians, Muslims, Terrorists: The Crescent and the Cross Since 11 September 2001*
Dec 01, 2003; ... This essay could have been entitled: "No More Crusades, or Crusades Never End; They Just Replay from Then to Now, from Medieval Monks to Modern Missionaries." For many Christians-people whom we identify as our fellow believersthe Crusades began over 900 years ago in 1090 and never ended. They ...
Episcopalians and Race in New York City's Anti-Abolitionist Riots of 1834: The Case of Peter Williams and Benjamin Onderdonk
Dec 01, 2003; ... The fledgling American Anti-Slavery Society gathered in New York City in 1834 to mark the Fourth of July as a celebration not just of American independence, but of the anniversary of the end of slavery in New York State on that date seven years earlier. Added excitement and urgency was brought ...
A History of the Church in Africa
Dec 01, 2003; ... BENGT SUNDKLER AND CHRISTOPHER STEED. A History of the Church in Africa. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xix + 1232, bibliography, indices. $140.00. Sundkler and Steed's magnificent work, A History of the Church in Africa, opens with a quotation from two ...
An Apology of the Church of England by John Jewel
Dec 01, 2003; ... JOHN E. BOOTY, ED. An Apology of the Church of England by John Jewel. New York: Church Publishing Incorporated, 2002 (first published in 1963 by University Press of Virginia). Pp. xlvii + 157, introduction, bibliography, index. $18.95 (paper). This is a reprint of John Booty's meticulous ...
America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
Dec 01, 2003; ... MARK A. NOLL. America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp ix + 622, bibliography, index. $35.00. For at least a quarter of a century Mark A. Noll has been one of the most prolific of church historians. Some of his books ...
Christians, Cultural Interactions, and India's Religious Traditions
Dec 01, 2003; ... JUDITH M. BROWN AND ROBERT ERIC FRYKENBERG, EDS. Christians, Cultural Interactions, and India's Religious Traditions. Studies in the History of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Cambridge, England: William B. Eerdmans, 2002. Pp ix + 241, introduction, index. $35.00 ...
Evangelicalism, Penal Theory and the Politics of Criminal Law Reform in England, 1808-30
Dec 01, 2003; ... RICHARD R. FOLLETT. Evangelicalism, Penal Theory and the Politics of Criminal Law Reform in England, 1808-30. New York, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2001. Pp. xi + 231. $69.95. The prayer for absolution in the services of Morning and Evening Prayer (1662) contains this stirring appeal ...
An Archbishop Blesses Oils, Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury, Maundy Thursday 2003
Dec 01, 2003; ... It is Holy Week of 2003, and the great controversy in the church press, synods, and parish halls of the Anglican world is the blessing of same-sex unions. The historian may see a parallel between this debate and the theological battles which Anglicans have waged for many centuries over the ...
Ending an Era at Christ Church, Highbury, London, England: Easter Evening, 20 April 2003
Dec 01, 2003; ... Few neighborhood Anglican churches in London are more prominently and strategically situated than Christ Church, Highbury. A solid, imposing, Gothic revival structure overlooking a major thoroughfare, it is noticed by thousands of people every day. A campus of the Metropolitan University of ...
NELSON BURR PRIZE AWARD FOR 2002
Dec 01, 2003; ... Each year, the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church awards the Nelson Burr Prize to the author of the article published in Anglican and Episcopal History that best exemplifies excellence in writing and innovative scholarship. This year, the Nelson Burr Prize Committee (composed of Fredrica ...
AFRICAN-AMERICAN COLLECTION
Dec 01, 2003; ... As of November 2003, Margaret D. Lewis has become assistant archivist for the jointly sponsored-by the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church and by Virginia Theological Seminary-African American Collection. A history major at the University of Hawaii, Ms. Lewis also holds degrees in both ...
Historian's Debate: Women's Ordination in Indianapolis/REPLY
Dec 01, 2003; ... To the Editor: I was very disappointed by Jason S. Lantzer's article, "Hoosier Episcopalians, the Coming of Women's Ordination, and the 1979 Book of Common Prayer," which appeared in the June 2003 issue. In addition to an unseemly smugness of tone which practically gloats at the triumph ...
Canon Law Meets Unintended Consequences: The Church of England and the Clandestine Marriage Act of 1753*
Dec 01, 2003; ... The proof of Clandestine Marriages as now celebrated is attended with insuperable difficulties. Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, 1753 The many notorious and scandalous Abuses of the Sacred Institution of Matrimony, which have been justly complained of for some Years past, could not but ...
Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI
Dec 01, 2003; ... STEPHEN ALFORD. Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward Vl. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp xiii + 233, bibliography, index. $55.00. Scholarship addressing the political and religious significance of Edward VI's reign has been in a state of fragmentation ....
The Church of England 1688-1832: Unity and Accord
Dec 01, 2003; ... WILLIAM GIBSON. The Church of England 1688-1832: Unity and Accord. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. vi + 245, bibliography, index. $27.95 (paper). This is William Gibson's second full monograph on the Church of England in the eighteenth century. As in his previous book (The ...
The New York Loyalists
Dec 01, 2003; ... PHILIP RANLET. The New York Loyalists. 2nd ed. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2002 (originally published in 1986 by University of Tennessee Press). Pp. xiii + 253, "A Note on Scholarship Since 1986," index. $48.00 (paper). This is the second edition of a book which was ...
Euthanasia of a Mission: African Church Autonomy in a Colonial Context
Dec 01, 2003; ... JEHU HANCILES. Euthanasia of a Mission: African Church Autonomy in a Colonial Context. Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger Publishers, 2002. Pp. xii + 278, introduction, maps, appendix, bibliography, index. $64.95. This volume describes the development of the Church of England ...
The British Christian Women's Movement: A Rehabilitation of Eve
Dec 01, 2003; ... JENNY DAGGERS. The British Christian Women's Movement: A Rehabilitation of Eve. Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology & Biblical Studies. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate 2002. Pp. xxii + 191, appendices, bibliographies, index. $69.95. In her introduction Jenny Daggers ...
A Model of "Open Evangelicalism": St. Mary, Islington, London, Easter Sunday 2003
Dec 01, 2003; ... The term "open evangelical," virtually unknown in North America, has become in the past ten years or so part of the standard nomenclature of the Church of England. An open evangelical is an Anglican who affirms the centrality of Christ, the authority of Scripture, and a spirituality based on a ...
Minutes of the Annual Membership Meeting of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church August 2003
Dec 01, 2003; ... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1 AUGUST 2003 President Thad W. Tate convened the annual membership meeting of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church (HSEC) at 8:15 PM in the "Windows on Minnesota" room of the Marquette ...