Bob Tennant

Corporate Holiness

Pulpit Preaching and the Church of England Missionary Societies, 1760-1870

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Produktbeschreibung

Corporate Holiness puts literary criticism and archival research to the service of an account of the Church of England missions to the overseas territories in the period 1760-1870. It describes how pulpit rhetoric sustained a dialogue that enabled the development of the three main Anglican missionary societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 165mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780199567850
• ISBN-10: 0199567859
• Artikelnr.: 38078724

Autorenporträt

Bob Tennant is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Durham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Church overseas in the 1760s
2: Preaching liberty: orphans, slaves and citizenship
3: The Church Missionary Society
4: The heroic phase (1): corporate redefinition and controversy
5: The heroic phase (2): missionary praxis
6: The imperial Church (1): the overseas dioceses
7: The imperial Church (2): managing the missions
8: Some mid-century crises
Conclusion
Appendices:
1: SPG Board meetings, 1751-1860: attendances by bishops
2: Anniversary preachers use of Biblical texts