Our Church
Title | Our Church PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Scruton |
Publisher | Atlantic Books |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2014-02-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1782395040 |
For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church as its true spiritual guardian. Here, Scruton argues that the Anglican Church is the forlorn trustee of an architectural and artistic inheritance that remains one of the treasures of European civilization. He contends that it is a still point in the centre of English culture and that its defining texts, the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer are the sources from which much of our national identity derives. At once an elegy to a vanishing world and a clarion call to recognize Anglicanism's continuing relevance, Our Church is a graceful and persuasive book.
The history of the Reformation of the Church of England, etc
Title | The history of the Reformation of the Church of England, etc PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert Burnet |
Publisher | |
Pages | 832 |
Release | 1753 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The History of the Reformation of the Church of England: A collection of records ... [etc.] referred to in the third part
Title | The History of the Reformation of the Church of England: A collection of records ... [etc.] referred to in the third part PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert Burnet |
Publisher | |
Pages | 604 |
Release | 1865 |
Genre | Reformation |
ISBN |
History of the Church of England, Etc
Title | History of the Church of England, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Hugh HORE |
Publisher | |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Compendious History of the Church of England, and of the Protestant Churches in Ireland and America ... With an introductory sketch of the history of the Waldenses. (A Compendious History of the Church of Scotland, etc.).
Title | A Compendious History of the Church of England, and of the Protestant Churches in Ireland and America ... With an introductory sketch of the history of the Waldenses. (A Compendious History of the Church of Scotland, etc.). PDF eBook |
Author | John BROWN (Minister of the Gospel at Haddington.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1784 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Short History of the Church of England, Etc. [A Revised Edition of "A Penny History of the Church of England".].
Title | A Short History of the Church of England, Etc. [A Revised Edition of "A Penny History of the Church of England".]. PDF eBook |
Author | Augustus JESSOPP |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
That Was The Church That Was
Title | That Was The Church That Was PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Brown |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2016-07-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1472921658 |
The Church of England still seemed an essential part of Englishness, and even of the British state, when Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979. The decades which followed saw a seismic shift in the foundations of the C of E, leading to the loss of more than half its members and much of its influence. In England today 'religion' has become a toxic brand, and Anglicanism something done by other people. How did this happen? Is there any way back? This 'relentlessly honest' and surprisingly entertaining book tells the dramatic and contentious story of the disappearance of the Church of England from the centre of public life. The authors – religious correspondent Andrew Brown and academic Linda Woodhead – watched this closely, one from the inside and one from the outside. That Was the Church, That Was shows what happened and explains why.