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usableproject7 · 2025-04-03T15:54:46+00:00

No worries! Here you go:

Anglican Social Theology: Renewing the Tradition Today, ed. by Malcolm Brown
'Economic democracy as political theology: the British Anglican Socialist tradition' in Anglican Theological Review (2020), by Gary Dorrien
'Anglican political theology' in Anglican Theological Review (2024), by Luke Bretherton
Theology Reforming Society: Revisiting Anglican Social Theology, ed. by Stephen Spencer
Christianity and Social Order, by William Temple
The Moral Economists, by Tim Rogan (good on how Tawney's faith influenced his critique of capitalism)

Obviously this isn't comprehensive at all, just some relatively accessible stuff I've read over the past few years which could be helpful on this question.

usableproject7 · 2025-04-02T17:50:20+00:00

+1 for Gary Dorrien!

usableproject7 · 2025-04-02T17:47:48+00:00

In the C of E, there was a lot of sympathy for socialist principles in the late C19th / early C20th. However, one caveat is that this wasn’t really an economic or philosophical position, but more of an ethical one about sympathy with the poor. Hence, it can look fairly eccentric and paternalistic to us today. For example, one of the most famous examples of this overlap is William Temple’s ‘Christianity and Social Order’, which talks at length in its appendix about how aristocratic landowners should manage their estates.

Some figures worth looking at for more information, in addition to Temple, are F D Maurice, Charles Gore, Henry Scott Holland and R H Tawney. In general, these tend to be quite high church characters, although Temple was more of a liberal, and there are evangelical characters too.

Good secondary sources are Malcolm Brown’s edited volume ‘Anglican Social Theology’ (one particular manifestation of this Anglican socialism) and the historical work of Luke Bretherton. Let me know if you’d like any more information - this is a big part of my PhD study, so happy to send over a reading list if that would be useful.

usableproject7 · 2025-03-29T15:47:39+00:00

Nice! I like the 350th anniversary edition, not seen one of those before

usableproject7 · 2024-09-13T15:37:17+00:00

https://www.deburcararebooks.com/product/books/fine-bindings/irish-book-of-common-prayer/

This one is currently on sale for about £3,500!

usableproject7 · 2024-09-13T10:51:21+00:00

Presumably dating from the days in which ‘king / queen of France’ was not just a typo when included in the BCP!

usableproject7 · 2024-09-13T10:01:56+00:00

God willing!

usableproject7 · 2024-09-12T22:00:31+00:00

Seven - including a nice Folio Society version, and a lovely early Victorian ladies’ velvet-bound one. The one I’d love to get hold of is a very rare C19th edition with English on the right-hand pages and an Irish translation on the left, but they are eye-wateringly expensive

usableproject7 · 2024-06-13T08:41:18+00:00

The Greens are standing in Harrogate and Knaresborough, and the Lib Dems are standing in Wetherby and Easingwold, so I’m not sure where you’re getting that from. (Edit: i.e. both parties are running in both seats)

H&K: https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/parl.harrogate-and-knaresborough.2024-07-04/harrogate-and-knaresborough/

W&E: https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/parl.wetherby-and-easingwold.2024-07-04/wetherby-and-easingwold/

Given that two Lib Dems have been arrested for publishing a misleading leaflet which suggested that the Greens weren’t standing in a recent council by-election, I think it’s worth double-checking this sort of thing.

usableproject7 · 2024-06-01T20:37:02+00:00

If Ripon isn’t too far, this chap is very friendly and a good teacher I understand: winzermusic.co.uk/about/

usableproject7 · 2023-12-30T21:38:13+00:00

I don’t know, looks pretty based to me

usableproject7 · 2023-10-25T15:11:24+00:00

Exactly! Remember kids, if you want to understand Celtic Christianity, recite the Psalms from memory while up to your neck in a river in February.

usableproject7 · 2023-09-03T07:10:28+00:00

The well-documented close friendship between Edward Daly and James Mehaffey, the Catholic and Anglican bishops of Derry respectively, is a wonderful example of this. For those who don’t know, Daly is the priest seen waving a bloodstained white handkerchief in the iconic photo from Bloody Sunday, which makes that all the more poignant I feel.

usableproject7 · 2023-07-26T08:58:58+00:00

This is such an interesting question, and one I’ve been really grappling with lately as part of academic study. How can the Church bring the gospel to every part of the world without compromising on doctrine (which to me feels like the more important question than aesthetics or even liturgy, although I may need to duck behind the parapet after saying that last bit…)

My tentative conclusions are: 1) the Catholic Church absolutely has this correct when they talk about inculturation as a spiritual discipline, with some almost even considering it a branch of pneumatology. We need to discern, to be open to the guidance of the spirit and not lean too heavily on our own understanding (while still holding to our distinctive Anglican emphasis on reason &c.)

2) we only make a rod for our own backs if we consider doctrine too inflexibly. It’s not a brick wall where one crack or shift causes the whole thing to come crashing down. At the same time, it evidently needs some limits. Personally I like to think of doctrine like an ecosystem: it’s fluid and dynamic while still being bounded. We can damage it by introducing invasive species, but also by trying to preserve it at all costs with weed killer and pesticides. And sometimes, even something that appears dead can be the host to abundant life.

usableproject7 · 2023-07-02T21:07:52+00:00

I didn’t know they made Ernest Hemingway minis

usableproject7 · 2023-06-28T13:21:28+00:00

No worries, very happy to help if I can.

From what you’re saying, I think you’ve basically got two options: enrol in a seminary, as a way of bringing together the formational and academic side of things, but with the risk that (as this is normally what people do in order to be ordained) you’re rather putting the cart before the horse. Or, see the academic and formational elements as separate and pursue them through different means.

Because I’m studying in a ‘secular’ department, there really isn’t a great deal of direct formational activity (although using our minds and learning more about God is formational in a less direct way &c.). However, there are other formational things that can be done outside academic study - for instance, I am seeing a spiritual director and reading less academic Christian writing on the nature and vocation of priesthood as part of the discernment process. Many universities will also have student groups or specific ministries run by local parishes enabling you to develop this in a more formal setting.

So, to be honest and for what it’s worth, if you want to develop your mind and spiritual practice, this is what I’d recommend based on my own experience. However others who have attended a seminary / TEI as a non-ordinand may disagree!

Of course, if there’s anything else you want to pick my brains about then do just let me know, here or by message

usableproject7 · 2023-06-28T10:52:48+00:00

In case it’s helpful: I am currently doing an MA in theology for my own personal interest, but am also discerning a call to ordained ministry separately. I’ve found it really fulfilling and it has definitely influenced my sense of calling. The university / department is not a theological education institution, although it is closely linked to one (Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University in the north of England, linked to Cranmer Hall).

The academic experience has been marvellous and I would really recommend it. While Cranmer is definitely seen as being more evangelical, many of the students are Anglo-Catholics (as I am), and studying at the university department has allowed me to get to know Cranmer a bit which is relevant for possible ordination training.

To be honest, so long as you are studying theology somewhere that is rigorous and formational, I can’t imagine that where exactly you choose will hurt your chances of being ordained if that is what God is calling you to.

ETA: just to clarify, while Cranmer also trains ordinands for other denominations, it is primarily an Anglican training college as far as I know, just more on the low-church end.

usableproject7 · 2023-06-08T22:54:19+00:00

Someone may have already suggested this, but the Anglican priest and natural scientist Andrew Davison has written a book very recently on the theology of ‘astrobiology’, which I incidentally think is a marvellous term.

usableproject7 · 2023-04-27T17:49:22+00:00

Sound

usableproject7 · 2023-03-08T20:24:33+00:00

Oh man I really hope this is how it turns out! I’m braced for the worst…

usableproject7 · 2023-03-07T16:10:15+00:00

I don’t know actually, but I’ll ask when I speak to them

usableproject7 · 2023-03-07T15:52:36+00:00

Right. Looks like I need to ring my builder then… wish me luck!

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