Product Description: This book reveals the huge sales and propagandist potential of Anglican parish magazines, while demonstrating the Anglican Church's misunderstanding of the real issues at its heart, and its collective collapse of confidence as it contemplated social change.

Product Description: Anglicanism arguably originated in 1534 when Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy, which transferred papal power over the Church of England to the king. Today, approximately 550 dioceses are located around the world, not only in England, but also everywhere that the British Empire's area of influence extended...read more

Explains why is the issue of homosexuality is threatening to divide the Anglican Church, examining the issues behind the debate, the current status and historical context of the controversy, and the power battles playing out in the name of the modern Church. Reprint.

Product Description: Archbishop Michael Ramsey was one of the church's most remarkable twentieth-century saints--wise and humble, humorous and compassionate. These introductory lectures on Anglicanism reveal the breadth of Ramsey's theological understanding, his ecumenism, and his vision of the church and the Christian life...read more

Product Description: William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was an evangelical Christian and a Member of British Parliament who fought slavery and the slave trade in England. In this book, Murray Andrew Pura examines the spirituality and beliefs that motivated and sustained William Wilberforce in his fight against popular opinion and the enormous, powerful and profitable African trade in human lives-a fight that took almost 20 years...read more

Product Description: This book examines the various contexts - historical, social, cultural, and ideological - which have shaped the modern efforts of the Anglican tradition at self-understanding. The author's thesis is that modernity and world mission have changed Anglicanism in ways that are deep and pervasive, just as other Christian traditions have also been profoundly affected by worldwide extension...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A collection of articles by a leading bishop, covering subjects such as the roots and uniqueness of Anglicanism, authority and power, and the Anglican doctrine of the Church.

Product Description: This volume tells a story that is virtually unknown today: The Protestant background and history of Anglican Christianity. Through a fascinating exploration of the development of Anglicanism and its wider Protestant context, Paul Zahl attempts to show-contrary to the opinion of many present-day "Anglican writers"-that Anglicanism is not just a via media (between Rome and Geneva, for example) but has been stamped decisively by classic Protestant insights and concerns...read more

Product Description: A look at this Anglican conference held every ten years to hash over social and religious issues. Author photo on rear jacket panel.