Anglicans in Canada
Subtitle: Controversies and Identity in Historical Perspective (Studies in Angelican History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: March 10, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780252029028
Subjects: Anglican & Episcopalian Churches; Canada - General; Christianity - Anglican; Christianity - History - Protestant; Religion / Anglicanism; Religion - Denominations - Religions; Anglican Church of Canada; Canada; Church history; History; Religion
First sentence: From the first time a Book of Common Prayer was opened in what is now Canada, Anglicans identified their Church as a missionary organization.
Description: "From its first worship services on board English ships during the sixteenth century to the contentious toughmindedness of the early clergy 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 an Anglican identity emerged from within changing forms of doctrine, worship, ministry, and institutions." "With writing that conveys a strong sense of place and people, Hayes finds such an identity not in the relatively few agreements within Anglicanism but within the disagreements themselves. Including seldom seen historical documents, Anglicans in Canada is ideal for research and classroom use and as a resource for church groups."--BOOK JACKET.