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This volume of Studies in Church History explores the close relationships between the Christian Church and empires and imperial power.
List of contents
Introduction Stewart J. Brown; 1. Towards a spiritual empire: Christian exegesis of the universal census at the time of Jesus's birth Tiziana Faitini; 2. The 'servant of God': divine favour and instrumentality under Constantine, 318� Andrew J. Pottenger; 3. Imperium and the City of God: Augustine on Church and empire Gillian Clark; 4. The popes as rulers of Rome in the aftermath of empire, 476�9 Rosamond McKitterick; 5. Empire, ethnic election and exegesis in the Opus Caroli (Libri Carolini) (President's prize) Conor O'Brien; 6. Super gentes et regna: papal 'empire' in the later eleventh and twelfth centuries Benedict G. E. Wiedemann; 7. Emperor and church in the last centuries of Byzantium Ruth Macrides; 8. An English bishop afloat in an Irish Sea: John Bale, Bishop of Ossory, 1552�Stephen N. Tong; 9. Roman Imperium and the Restoration church Jacqueline Rose; 10. The Episcopal Church, the Roman Empire and the royal supremacy in Restoration Scotland Andrew Carter; 11. Concepts of Mission in Scottish Presbyterianism: the SSPCK, the Highlands and Britain's American colonies, 1709� Clare Loughlin; 12. Christianity and empire: the Catholic mission in late imperial China R. Po-Chia Hsia; 13. Providential empire? The established Church of England and the nineteenth-century British Empire in India (presidential address) Stewart J. Brown; 14. Special worship in the British Empire: from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries Joseph Hardwick and Philip Williamson; 15. Queen Adelaide and the extension of Anglicanism in Malta Nicholas Dixon; 16. Claiming the land: the Church Missionary Society and architecture in the Arctic (Kennedy Prize) Emily Turner; 17. Anglican emigrant chaplaincy in the British Empire and beyond, c. 1840�00 Rowan Strong; 18. Sisters and brothers abroad: gender, race, empire and Anglican missionary reformism in Hawai'i and the Pacific, 1858� Steven S. Maughan; 19. Ultramontate efforts in the Ottoman Empire during the 1860s and 1870s Maryam Kartashyan; 20. 'Britishers and Protestants': Protestantism and imperial British identities in Britain, Canada and Australia from the 1880s to the 1920s Gé–aldine Vaughan; 21. Englishness, empire and nostalgia: a heterodox religious community's appeal in the inter-war years Jane Shaw; 22. A triangular conflict: the Nyasaland Protectorate and two missions, 1915� David Thompson; 23. Social Anglicanism and Empire: C. F. Andrews's Christian socialism Philip Lockley.
Summary
'The Church and Empire' is the theme of Studies in Church History, 54. This volume explores the relations of churches and empires around the world, and Christian conceptions of empire, in the ancient, medieval, early modern and modern periods, as well as the role of empire in the global expansion of Christianity.
