Thought to be the first book to examine Anglo-Catholicism sociologically. Pickering concentrates on its heyday in the interwar period, and proceeds to analyze its decline to the present day.
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Revd Dr William S. F. Pickering has been an Anglican priest since 1950. He was for twenty years a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is currently the General Secretary of the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies, at Oxford University.
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Filling a gap in Anglo-Catholic studies,
This review is from: Anglo-Catholicism: A Study in Religious Ambiguity (Paperback)
The author himself notes that there are quite a few works on the Oxford Movement, but notices that once the Tracts for the Times cease and Newman converts to Catholicism there is not much available on Anglo-Catholicism. For that alone this work is useful, though it is not intended to be a comprehensive history of thelogical representation of Anglo-Catholicism since the mid 1800s. The author first asks what is Anglo-Catholicism, then discusses the early days of the movement as well as its heyday between the world wars. Then the missional aspect of the movement which it picked up from Evangelicals. Its success and notable achievements in the slums of England are assessed and then its ambiguities. A subsection of one chapter is entitled "Catholic or not Catholic?" and this is a question many of us who are not Anglo-Catholic are asking. Ambiguity over sexuality is addressed as are the well known charges of homosexuality amongst its adherents. The final section addresses the Anglo-Catholic charges of ambiguity and analyzes Anglo-Catholicism's effect on the Church of England and even Roman Catholicism. Issues such as Charismaticism, Vatican II and the ordination of women are also discussed.You may not be pleased with the conclusions but the work is worth reading due to its comprehensive nature.
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