Our Church

by Roger Scruton
Our Church
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2014-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1782395040
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For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church as its true spiritual guardian. Here, Scruton argues that the Anglican Church is the forlorn trustee of an architectural and artistic inheritance that remains one of the treasures of European civilization. He contends that it is a still point in the centre of English culture and that its defining texts, the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer are the sources from which much of our national identity derives. At once an elegy to a vanishing world and a clarion call to recognize Anglicanism's continuing relevance, Our Church is a graceful and persuasive book.

Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages

by Gabriel Byng
Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages
Author: Gabriel Byng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-12-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1107157099
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The first systematic study of the financing and management of parish church construction in England in the Middle Ages.

Imperial Gothic

by G. A. Bremner
Imperial Gothic
Author: G. A. Bremner
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780300187038
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Traces the global reach & influence of the Gothic Revival throughout Britain's empire. Focusing on religious buildings, this book examines the reinvigoration of the colonial & missionary agenda of the Church of England & its relationship with the rise of Anglian ecclesiology.

Common Worship: Times and Seasons President's Edition

by Common Worship
Common Worship: Times and Seasons President's Edition
Author: Common Worship
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2013-07-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0715122436
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This revised, expanded edition of the Common Worship President’s Edition contains everything to celebrate Holy Communion Order One throughout the church year. It combines relevant material from the original President’s Edition with Eucharistic material from Times and Seasons, Festivals and Pastoral Services, and the Additional Collects.

England's Thousand Best Churches

by Simon Jenkins
England's Thousand Best Churches
Author: Simon Jenkins
Publisher: Penguin Global
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781846146640
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Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of England to select his thousand best churches. Organised by county, each church is described - often with delightful asides - and given a star-rating from one to five. All of the county sections are prefaced by a map locating each church, and lavishly illustrated with colour photos from the Country Life archive. Jenkins contends that these churches house a gallery of vernacular art without equal in the world. Here, he brings that museum to public attention.

Learning from London

by Jason A. Fout
Learning from London
Author: Jason A. Fout
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2019-11
Genre: Church growth
ISBN: 9780880284783
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Winner of a Gold Medal - 2020 Illumination Book Awards Crucial reading for everyone committed to evangelism and church growth. -Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church As most mainline Christian denominations struggle with declining numbers, the Church of England in the Diocese of London is bucking the trend. In one of the most diverse, multi-faith, urban, and pluralistic cities in the world, London churches are growing and thriving against the odds, proclaiming the gospel afresh, and meeting the needs of their communities in creative, innovative, and life-changing ways. Based on more than six years of study, Jason A. Fout offers lessons from London, a road map to growth and revitalization for American churches-big and small, historic and newly started, evangelical and Anglo-Catholic. This remarkable guide offers practical tools as well as insight and inspiration for all who care about the future of the church.

Common Worship: Pastoral Services

by Church of England
Common Worship: Pastoral Services
Author: Church of England
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2014-08-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0715122339
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Offers liturgical material for the journey of each individual through life. For each key element of this journey (birth, marriage, healing, death), it provides both material for key ‘public’ events and resources for ‘private’ pastoral care.