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James Clarke & Co, Date: 2008. 1st. paperback. New. 8x5x0. 2008. James Clarke & Co ISBN 0227679881 9780227679883 [US]

Paperback / softback. New. A new and revised edition of what has become the standard work on the Anglo-Catholic movement. ISBN 0227679881 9780227679883 [GB]

James Clarke, Date: 2008. Paperback. New. revised ed. edition. 300 pages. 8.43x5.51x0.94 inches. 2008. James Clarke ISBN 0227679881 9780227679883 [GB]

ISBN10: 0227679881, ISBN13: 9780227679883, [publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd, Cambridge] Softcover Paperback. A revised and enlarged edition of the most powerful and polemic critique of the Anglo-Catholicism movement. This penetrating and highly readable study has established itself over the years as the standard text on the subject. Rising in the wake of the Oxford Movement, Anglo-Catholicism can be seen as a deliberate attempt to catholicise the Church of England and to make its doctrines and services similar to those of the Roman Catholic Church. Early followers were persecuted, but they became famous for their work and for breaking down the social divisions associated with the Church. The Anglo-Catholic Movement indelibly changed the ethos of the Established Church with the foundation of religious orders, overseas missions, theological colleges and public schools, promoting new social doctrines often associated with socialist ideas. Anglo-Catholicism traces the movement from the origins to the heyday in the 1920s and 1930s. It is the first study which analyses it from the sociological point of view. The book concentrates in the interwar period and the decline of the movement to the present time, showing now the ambiguities and tensions originated and the way they have been dealt with over the years. This revised edition also contains a new chapter examining the impact of women's ordination to priesthood on the movement. A new and revised edition of what ...