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List of contents
Introduction Part I: Beginnings 1 Theocracy and Christendom 2 Bede and the Beginnings of the English Christendom Part II: The Anglo Norman Christendom 3 William I and Lanfranc 4 Anselm: Obedience and Distinction 5 Establishing Royal Governance and the Becket Challenge 6 Papal Triumph and Lay power Part III: The Tudor Royal Supremacy 7 Gardiner and the Hooker Turning Point Part IV: The Dying of the English Christendom 8 Sudden Death: America and William White 9 Demise by Attrition: Australia and William Grant Broughton Part V: Responding to the End of Christendom 10 Theocracy, Christology, Order and Power
About the author
Bruce Kaye is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia, and was the General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Australia from 1994 to 2004. He is the author of eight books, editor of ten further volumes and has written some sixty journal articles as well as contributing to newspapers, radio and TV. He has taught at various institutions around the world, including Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Cambridge and Seattle, is also the foundation editor of the Journal of Anglican Studies.
Summary
This book utilises the motif of Christendom to illuminate the pedigree of Anglican Christianity, allowing a vital and persistent dynamic in Christianity, namely the relationship between the sacred and the mundane, to be more fundamentally explored.
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"The great value of Kaye’s book is a detailed account of English Christendom, with acute theological reflection on the case studies. It is wonderful to have such a thoughtful account, especially when extended to Australia and the United States [...] This is an outstanding survey from one of the leading theologians in the Anglican Communion."
- Peter Sedgwick, Cardiff University, Ecclesiastical Law Journal
