Anglican and Episcopal History back issues from March 2009:
The State of Play for the Anglican Covenant: General Convention 2009
Mar 01, 2009; ... Waatchers of blogs and other internet discussions can easily discern that the two most hotly contested items related to the Anglican Communion that might be brought to the 76th General Convention in Anaheim, California, in July 2009 will be a possible revisit of Resolution 2006-B033 on the ...
Courts, Covenants, and Canon Law: A Review of Legal and Canonical Issues Facing the General Convention
Mar 01, 2009; ... ROBERT W. PRICHARD The bishops and deputies who will assemble in Anaheim, California, in July of 2009 for the 76th General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (otherwise known as The Episcopal Church) will face a confusing array of questions ...
The Americans at Lambeth
Mar 01, 2009; ... In an atmosphere charged with anticipation, the American House of Bishops met in New Orleans in late September 2007. The bishops were joined by the archbishop of Canterbury and representatives of die Anglican Consultative Council. Those assembled sought clarification of the American church's ...
F. D. Maurice: The Radically Inclusive God
Mar 01, 2009; ... Modern analyses of the thought of Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-72) fabricate a dichotomy between his early commitment to progressive social values and his primary allegiance to the hegemony of the Church of England, a disjointed portrait that captures neither his continuous involvement in the ...
The Episcopal Church and Race in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina1
Mar 01, 2009; ... "The truth's the light and the truth never hurt nobody. I'm proud of my kinfolks. Besides, I'm telling this child pure history." So Cornelia Fitzgerald, the grandmother of prominent Civil Rights attorney and pioneering black Episcopal priest Pauli Murray, used to respond when questioned about ...
Slavery in the Diocese of Mississippi's Convention Journals, 1826-1861
Mar 01, 2009; ... In the mid-1850s, during the bitter and intense national debate over the morality of slavery, an editorial in The Church Herald, the weekly newspaper of the diocese of Mississippi, unhesitatingly proclaimed: "The Episcopal Church does not meddle with slavery." As the editorial's anonymous author ...
A People's History of Christianity. 7 Volumes
Mar 01, 2009; ... A People's History of Christianity. 7 Volumes. By Denis R. Janz, General Editor. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005-2008). The book review section of this volume of Anglican and Episcopal History highlights the recently completed series A People's History of Christianity. As the title ...
Repenting of Slavery: The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas
Mar 01, 2009; ... Repenting of Slavery: The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4 October 2008 A day of repentance for the sin of slavery, which "continues to plague our common life," was mandated by the General Convention of the Episcopal Church when it met in Columbus, ...
Christian Origins
Mar 01, 2009; ... Christian Origins. Edited by Richard A. Horsley. A People's History of Christianity, vol. 1. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005, Pp. xv, 318. $35.00.) This first volume in A People's History of Christianity covers a period of time roughly from the turn of the first century CE. to the ...
Late Ancient Christianity
Mar 01, 2009; ... Late Ancient Christianity. Edited by Virginia Burrus. A People's History of Christianity, vol. 2. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005, Pp. xv, 318. $35.00.) The sweeping narrative of Christianity is a drama that historians have cast and recast repeatedly over two millennia. As in any ...
Byzantine Christianity
Mar 01, 2009; ... Byzantine Christianity. Edited by Derek Kreuger. A People's History of Christianity, vol. 3. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006, Pp. xix, 252. $35.00.) This book is a series of essays on the religious experiences and practices of Byzantine Christians. There is a need for a volume like ...
Medieval Christianity
Mar 01, 2009; ... Medieval Christianity. Edited by Daniel F. Bornstein. A People's History of Christianity, vol. 4. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009, Pp. xx, 409. $35.00.) Medieval Christianity, edited by Daniel Bornstein, is the fourth book in the series A People's History of Christianity. As a series, ...
Reformation Christianity
Mar 01, 2009; ... Reformation Christianity. Edited by Peter Matheson. A People's History of Christianity, vol. 5. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007, Pp. xviii, 306. $35.00.) According to the editor Peter Matheson, the goal of this book is to focus "on the aspirations and frustrations of ordinary folk" in ...
Modern Christianity to 1900
Mar 01, 2009; ... Modern Christianity to 1900. Edited by Amanda Porterfield. A People's History of Christianity, vol. 6. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007, Pp. v, 348. $35.00.) In the sixth volume of A People's History of Christianity, editor Amanda Porterfield weaves eleven essays into a work whose ...
Twentieth-Century Global Christianity
Mar 01, 2009; ... Twentieth-Century Global Christianity. Edited by Mary Farrell Bednarowski. A People's History of Christianity, vol. 7. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008, Pp. xx, 439. $35.00.) Of the writing of compendia of Christianity there seems to be no end. From massive encyclopedias to multivolume ...
Women, Reform and Community in Early Modern England: Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, and Lincolnshire's Godly Aristocracy, 1519-1580
Mar 01, 2009; ... Women, Reform and Community in Early Modern England: Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, and Lincolnshire's Godly Aristocracy, 1519-1580. By Melissa Franklin Harkrider. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: The Boydell Press, 2008, Pp. xii, 174. $90.00.) In this monograph Melissa Franklin ...
The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia. By Charles F. Irons. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008, Pp. xi, 366. $24.95.) In this well argued book, historian Charles F. Irons seeks to explain a familiar ...
Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England
Mar 01, 2009; ... Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England. By Michael Alexander (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, Pp. xxviii, 306. $45.00.) Kenneth Clark famously began his The Gothic Revival (1928) by expressing regret that his subject had "left so little on which our eyes can rest without ...
SOCIETY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mar 01, 2009; ... Invitation for Grant Applications The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church invites applications from individual scholars or groups for grants to support significant research and publications relating to the history of the Church of England, the Anglican Communion world-wide, and ...