A revised and enlarged edition of the most powerful and polemic critique
of the Anglo-Catholicism movement. This penetrating and highly readable
study has established itself over the years as the standard text on the
subject. Rising in the wake of the Oxford Movement, Anglo-Catholicism
can be seen as a deliberate attempt to catholicise the Church of England
and to make its doctrines and services similar to those of the Roman
Catholic Church. Early followers were persecuted, but they became famous
for their work and for breaking down the social divisions associated
with the Church. The Anglo-Catholic Movement indelibly changed the ethos
of the Established Church with the foundation of religious orders,
overseas missions, theological colleges and public schools, promoting
new social doctrines often associated with socialist ideas.
Anglo-Catholicism traces the movement from the origins to the heyday in
the 1920s and 1930s. It is the first study which analyses it from the
sociological point of view. The bookconcentrates in the interwar period
and the decline of the movement to the present time, showing now the
ambiguities and tensions originated and the way they have been dealt
with over the years. This revised edition also contains a new chapter
examining the impact of women's ordination to priesthood on the
movement.
