The New Puritans: The Rise of Fundamentalism in the Anglican Church

ISBN-13: 9780522851847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 192 str.

Muriel Porter

Opis

The local and international effects of the ideological agenda of the diocese of Sydney--the largest, richest, and most influential diocese in the Anglican Church of Australia--are explored in this commentary. Over the past few decades, Anglicans in Sydney have increasingly modeled themselves on the sixteenth-century English Puritans, altering church services to strictly oppose the equality of women in the Church and preventing the Church's blessing of same-sex partnerships and the ordination of gay people.With this increasing religious fundamentalism, it is theorized that a schism within the Church of England may occur.