The Evolution of the English Churches, 1500-2000

ISBN-13: 9780521642057 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 414 str.

Doreen Rosman

Opis

Unlike general histories that concentrate on church leaders, this study focuses upon the lives of ordinary English church-goers and the local clergy who ministered to them from the Reformation to the present. Doreen Rosman traces changes in church life, charting the emergence of distinctive characteristics among different denominations. She emphasizes recent developments by examining the growth of new independent churches in the late twentieth century.

Recenzje

'This is a fascinating and highly readable account of English church life, which young ministers in particular need to read in order to understand the context in which they find themselves today.' Ministry Today

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Buildings, beliefs and community life; 2. From Catholic to Protestant; 3. Moulding the character of the church; 4. Conflict, coercion, and compromise; 5. Dissenters, Catholics, and Anglicans; 6. The eighteenth-century revival; 7. Diversity, competition, and strife; 8. The vigour of Victorian Christianity; 9. Churches, chapels and Protestant worship; 10. Perceptions of faith c.1850–2000; 11. Church communities in the modern world; 12. Churches together and churches apart.