Anglicans in Canada: Controversies and Identity in Historical Perspective

by Alan L. Hayes

Overview

From the first worship services onboard English ships during the sixteenth century to the contentious toughmindedness of early clergymen to current debates about sexuality, Alan L. Hayes provides a comprehensive survey of the history of the Canadian Anglican Church. Unprecedented in the annals of Canadian religious history, it examines whether something like an Anglican identity emerged from within the changing forms of doctrine, worship, ministry, and institutions.
 
With writing that conveys a strong sense of place and people, Hayes ultimately finds such an identity not in the relatively few agreements within Anglicanism but within the disagreements themselves. Including hard-to-find historical documents, Anglicans in Canada is ideal for research, classroom use, and as a resource for church groups.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252091483
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	10/01/2010
Series:	Studies in Angelican History
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
File size:	615 KB

About the Author

Alan L. Hayes, an ordained priest in the Anglican Church of Canada, is Bishops Frederick and Heber Wilkinson Professor of Church History at Wycliffe College, Toronto School of Theology, and the author of Church and Society in Documents, 100-600 A.D.
 

Table of Contents

Contents Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1. Questions about Missionary Work 2. Questions about the Church's Role in Society 3. Questions about Church Governance 4. Questions about Anglican Church Style 5. Questions about the Church in the Modern World 6. Questions about Gender in Anglican Life Epilogue Index

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Anglican Church of Canada History, Canada Church history