Change and Transformation: Essays in Anglican History

by Thomas P. Power (Editor), George R. Sumner (Foreword by)

Overview

The integrative theme of this collection of essays is change and transformation explored in the context of diverse expressions within the context of Anglican Church history. It addresses some central themes--notably the sacraments, liturgy, biblical interpretation, theological education, the relationship of church and state, governance and authority, and Christian education. The volume traces Anglican Church history chronologically. It includes a comparative study of penance in the thought of John Wyclif and Thomas Cranmer. The book also treats the dispersal of authority evident in the development of the Book of Common Prayer and the King James Bible, consensus in eucharistic theology in the seventeenth century, and developments in biblical interpretation in the early eighteenth century. This book also discusses a vision for the Christian education of children, change in theological education in the 1830s, the metanarrative of continuity developed by High Church historians in the late nineteenth century, increasing self-government in the Church at the outset of the twentieth century, and models of governance at the outset of the twenty-first. While this collection highlights aspects of change and transformation as an integrative theme, it is not its premise that change was normative or pervasive, perpetual or constant, within Anglicanism. Nevertheless, these essays raise some new lines of inquiry, make some suggestive interpretations, or propose revision of accepted views.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621898382
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	08/21/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
File size:	372 KB

About the Author

Thomas P. Power teaches church history at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto.
Thomas P. Power is sessional lecturer in the history of Christianity, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. He is the author of The Apocalypse in Ireland: Prophecy and Politics in the 1820s (2022). He is general editor of the series Wycliffe Studies in History, Church, and Society.
George R. Sumner is Principal of Wycliffe College, Toronto. He is the author of The First and the Last: The Claim of Jesus Christ and the Claims of Other Religious Traditions (Eerdmans, 2004).

Table of Contents

Contributors vii

Foreword George R. Sumner ix

Preface xi

Abbreviations xii

Introduction xiii

1 John Wyclif and Thomas Cranmer on Penance Sean A. Otto 1

2 The King James Version, Dispersed Authority, and Anglican Identity Alan L. Hayes 24

3 The Reformed Consensus on the Doctrine of the Eucharist: Daniel Brevint's The Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice (1673) Eric R. Griffin 48

4 Reconciling the Old and New Testaments in the Eighteenth-Century Debate over Prophecy David Ney 85

5 Spiritual Transformation in Sarah Trimmer's Essay on Christian Education Heather E. Weir 113

6 "Of No Small Importance" Curricular Change in the School of Divinity, Trinity College Dublin, 1790-1850 Thomas P. Power 140

7 The Waning of Protestantism in the Anglican Historical Imagination, 1874-1916 Nathan Wolfe 184

8 Reforming Ecclesiastical Self-Government Within the Establishment: The Enabling Act, 1919 Gary W. Graber 212

9 Anglicanism and the Search for Christian Concord Ephraim Radner 246

Index 267