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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"Church of England"”.
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The Church of England in the First World War.
<p>The Church of England was at a crossroads in 1914 as the First World War began. The war was seen as an opportunity to revitalize it and return it to its role of prominence in society. In comparison to other areas of study, the role of the Church of England during this time period is inadequately …
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Cathedrals and the Church of England, c.1660-1714
Early modern cathedrals have often found themselves falling between the historiographical cracks. While antiquarians and art historians have seen their early modern pasts as nothing more than periods of ‘desecration and pillage’, early modern historians have dismissed cathedrals as medieval …
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The Bishops' Bible and the Church of England, 1560-1640
… examines a hitherto neglected version of the English Bible: the Bishops’ Bible. First printed in 1568 at the behest of Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, the version remained in use in churches until the publication of the King James Bible in 1611. Widely rejected as a ‘bad’ …
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The Effectiveness of the Church of England Guidance for Assessing Significance
The thesis aims to determine the effectiveness of the Church of England’s (C. of E.) guidance for writing statements of significance. It examines the adoption of ‘significance’ as a system for deciding what elements of the historic environment should be conserved and in what way. The growing …
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Vicar Victoria: Writing the Church of England in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Vicar Victoria: Writing the Church of England in Nineteenth-Century Fiction shows how the organizing force of the Anglican Church and the figure of the Anglican clergyman were used to interrogate social, legal, and historical developments in nineteenth-century fiction. The project outlines how …
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Route Planning: Mapping Journeys to Priesthood in the Church of England
Research suggests that the well-being of clergy in the Church of England is closely tied to the way that they feel about themselves, their vocation and their employer. Yet whilst successive studies have investigated the role of the Church in contemporary society, the impact of secularism and the …
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The Church of England in the Forest of Arden, 1660-1740
This study explores the Anglican Church in a particular locality, namely the Forest of Arden region of Warwickshire, from the Restoration to 1740. This thesis is in sharp contrast to those histories that have depicted the Church of England as a moribund institution. It is contended that Anglicanism …
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Saving the Church of England: John Edwards (1637-1716) as dissenting conformer
… undertook a mission to defend and preserve the Church of England. Against those who sought to make optional those doctrines traditionally considered as essential for Christian orthodoxy, such as the Trinity and Incarnation, Edwards was uncompromising. Removing foundational ordinances of …
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Arminianism and Anti-Remonstrant Polemic in the Later Stuart and Early Hanoverian Church of England
This thesis analyzes modes of engagement with the Dutch Remonstrant tradition by Arminian conformists of the later Stuart and early Hanoverian Church of England. It argues that several of the period’s fiercest theological controversies arose from what traditionalist divines took to be the …
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From a Confessional to a Nation State? National Identity and the Church of England, 1780-1838
This thesis seeks to understand how the Anglican Church’s relationship to wider society shifted from a position of being the principal medium of nation-wide identity formation to one in which the institution represented just one of a number of different vehicles through which to form and sustain an …
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The Free Church of England: otherwise called the Reformed Episcopal Church - c.1845 to c.1927
In which are examined the birth of the Free Church of England, together with the Reformed Episcopal Church (United Kingdom) and the Reformed Church of England which grew from it. A study of the processes of denominational development and growth, division, and finally re-union in 1927. Containing …
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Theological education and ministerial training for the ordained ministry of the Church of England 1800 - 1850
There were no establishments of higher education in England and Wales in 1800 where an Anglican ordinand could receive a professional training to prepare him for his future parochial ministry, Most men who took Holy Orders in the Church of England had no more theological education than any other …
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To Boldly Go: How do women in senior positions in the Church of England construe their leadership?
This thesis contains the results of two empirical studies focusing on the ministry and leadership of women in the Church of England. Two key events, one in 1992 and the other in 2012, almost exactly twenty years apart, provide the framework and context in which these studies take place. <br/>The …
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Weeping at the grave, we make our song : Alleluia - Lament and thanksgiving in Church of England funerals
The thesis considers the changing nature of funerals carried in England over the last twenty years and a possible response by Church of England ministers. Those changes are outlined in terms of the changes in venue of funerals, the changes in content and the changes in officials conducting …
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The Church of England in East Yorkshire from 1743 to c1840 : with particular reference to economic matters
… database information, how the material resources of the clergy changed, primarily as a result of the enclosure process, from being based substantially on tithes, to one of ownership of the land itself, and the effect of this on the Church of England in the East Riding. It also considers the …
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The Reader: an exploration of the history and present place of Reader ministry in the Church of England
A substantial part of the Church of England ministry is provided by Readers, but little information is available about their past or present position in the church. This thesis addresses this absence of knowledge by the exploration of Reader history and its contemporary expression. History is …
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