The Rise and Fall of the English Christendom: Theocracy, Christology, Order and Power

ISBN-13: 9780367890766 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 324 str.

Bruce Kaye

Opis

This book utilises the motif of Christendom to illuminate the pedigree of Anglican Christianity, allowing a vital and persistent dynamic in Christianity, namely the relationship between the sacred and the mundane, to be more fundamentally explored.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Beginnings  1 Theocracy and Christendom  2 Bede and the Beginnings of the English Christendom  Part II: The Anglo Norman Christendom  3 William I and Lanfranc  4 Anselm: Obedience and Distinction  5 Establishing Royal Governance and the Becket Challenge  6 Papal Triumph and Lay power  Part III: The Tudor Royal Supremacy  7 Gardiner and the Hooker Turning Point  Part IV: The Dying of the English Christendom  8 Sudden Death: America and William White 9 Demise by Attrition: Australia and William Grant Broughton  Part V: Responding to the End of Christendom  10 Theocracy, Christology, Order and Power

O autorze

Bruce Kaye is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia, and was the General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Australia from 1994 to 2004. He is the author of eight books, editor of ten further volumes and has written some sixty journal articles as well as contributing to newspapers, radio and TV. He has taught at various institutions around the world, including Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Cambridge and Seattle, is also the foundation editor of the Journal of Anglican Studies.