Bibliography on Anglicanism

 

 

Guelzo, Allen C.  For the Union of Evangelical Christendom:  The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians.  University Park:  Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.  Guelzo offers an excellent history of the Reformed Episcopal Church, focusing much attention on the controversies inside ECUSA which led to schism.

 

Holmes, David.  A Brief History of the Episcopal Church.  Valley Forge:  Trinity Press International, 1993.  This is a good survey of Episcopal history, including a chapter on the English background of the American church and a social history of church life and worship.

 

Holmes, Urban T.  What Is Anglicanism?  Harrisburg:  Morehouse Publishing, 1982.  This collection of essays surveys a variety of topics from a broad church perspective.

 

Moorman, J. H. R.  A History of the Church in England, 3rd ed.  Harrisburg:  Morehouse Publishing, 1980.  Moorman’s work remains the standard and still definitive history of Anglicanism.

 

Prichard, Robert.  A History of the Episcopal Church.  Harrisburg:  Morehouse Publishing, 1991.  Prichard covers the church in slightly more depth than Holmes, emphasizing the various movements that have affected American Episcopal history.

 

__________.  The Nature of Salvation:  Theological Consensus in the Episcopal Church, 1801-73.  Urbana:  University of  Illinois Press, 1997.  Prichard discusses the growing 19th Century conflict over ritualism, with particular emphasis on the theology involved and its impact at General Convention.

 

Sykes, Stephen, Booty, John, and Knight, Jonathan.  The Study of Anglicanism, Rev. ed.  Minneapolis:  Fortress Press, 1988.  This is a very useful series of essays on Anglican theology, polity and practice.

 

Woolverton, John Frederick.  Colonial Anglicanism in North America.  Detroit:  Wayne State University Press, 1984.  This is a basic text on the topic, covering movements and events in American Anglicanism until the Revolution.

 

Web Sites

 

Anglicans Online, http://anglicansonline.org/, a basic clearinghouse for all things Anglican.

 

Anglican Pages of Louie Crew, http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/rel.html.  Louie Crew is the founder of Integrity and an impassioned advocate of full inclusion for LGBT Christians.  His web site, however, includes a massive database on General Convention delegates and bishops which is a standard reference point for the subject of Episcopal governance.

 

Episcopal Café, http://episcopalcafe.com/, the Episcopal news of the day from a mainstream perspective.

 

Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana, http://www.ednin.org/ednin/, our diocesan home page.

 

N. T. Wright’s Page, http://www.ntwrightpage.com/, a compendium of articles and talks by the Bishop of Durham, one of the church’s leading theologians.

 

Peek Through the Window of the Episcopal Church, http://www.pttw.org/, a good survey of Episcopal beliefs and attitudes.

 

Titus One Nine, http://kendallharmon.net/t19/, the weblog of the Rev. Canon Dr. Kendall Harmon of the Diocese of South Carolina.  This blog covers quite thoroughly, from a conservative perspective, all the news of worldwide Anglicanism and other items of interest.