The nineteenth-century church and English society /
This is the first study to consider the meaning of Anglicanism for ordinary people in nineteenth-century England. Drawing extensively on unpublished sources, particularly those for rural areas, Frances Knight analyses the beliefs and practices of lay Anglicans and of the clergy who ministered to the...
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1995.
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书本目录:
- 1. Interpreting the nineteenth-century church
- 2. Lay religion
- The problem of identity: Anglican or Methodist?
- The construction of Anglican piety: the Bible and the Prayer Book
- The essence of Anglican belief: salvation and the last things.
- 3. Church and community
- Providing churches
- Parochial responsibility redefined: the poor and the ratepayer
- Sunday church-going
- The rites of passage
- 4. Clerical life
- Ordination: a trap baited with flowers?
- Curates: a clerical underclass?
- Incumbents: winners and losers in the livings lottery?
- Two clergymen: a glimpse into the interior.
- 5. Relations remoulded
- Bishops, patrons and recalcitrant clergy
- The rise of middle management: archdeacons and rural deans
- The eclipse of lay authority: churchwardens, parish clerks, sextons and schoolteachers
- The layman redefined
- 6. Conclusion.