Wesley Carr, religious institutions, and institutional integrity

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-111
Author(s):  
Edward R. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Primary Task ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Group Relations ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Institutional Integrity ◽  
The World ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Church

Wesley Carr devoted his life to the Church of England, using group relations theory to frame some of his thinking. He saw the primary task of religious institutions as containing irrationality and dependency on behalf of society. This article offers a summary of Wesley’s central ideas, with an extended illustration of his management (as Dean of Westminster) of Princess Diana’s funeral. The private and public mourning of millions around the world during and after this funeral is an example of the way religious institutions can respond to the needs of society by helping to manage the boundary transitions of life and death. The rituals of religion during such transitions can help individuals move beyond narrow subgroup identifications to discover their membership in a larger human community. For Wesley Carr, integrity meant to commit all of oneself to an institution’s primary task, negotiated with and on behalf of others, that connects to a transcendent set of ideals and beliefs.

scholarly journals Priest in the Inner City

Ecclesiology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-31
Author(s):  
Martin Gainsborough
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Priestly Ministry ◽  
The Church ◽  
Day By Day

The article considers the strengths and weaknesses of John Milbank’s ecclesiology by examining encounters the author has had as a Church of England priest working in the inner city. The analysis is further sharped by setting Milbank’s ecclesiology alongside Rowan Williams’s ideas about the Church and priestly ministry. The article argues that, while there is more to Milbank’s ecclesiology than some critics have allowed, his account can be usefully supplemented by close attention to the lived experience of the Church day by day. For a more rounded characterization of the Church as a distinctive human community, we need to look at the Church taken to its limits, sticking with situations of ‘dis-ease and conflict’, and not looking for ‘quick and false solutions’. These points can all be found in Williams’s ecclesiology.

scholarly journals Mutual Flourishing?

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-217
Author(s):  
Sharon Jagger
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Domestic Abuse ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Power Model ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Relational Interactions ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
The Church

Abstract This article explores the experiences of women priests in the Church of England through the lens of Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence. Comparing acts of symbolic violence perpetrated against women in the priesthood with the categories of domestic abuse set out in the Duluth Wheel of Power model, I highlight how institutional discourses in the Church and relational interactions can hold hidden abuses based on how gender is constructed at the symbolic level. My intention is to show that the Church of England’s split structure, known as the two integrities, is a manifestation of religious discourse that frames women as differently human and that this fundamental view of gender perpetuates masculine domination and violence against women, often in unseen ways. My argument concludes with a call to better understand the nature of gendered symbolic violence and how religious institutions provide justification for and legitimisation of such violence.

Notes in the History of Sir Jerome Alexander Second Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and Founder of the Alexander Library, Trinity College, Dublin

1872 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 220-240
Author(s):  
Charles Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Will ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

The Will of Sir Jerome Alexander, a parchment transcript of which is preserved in the Chief Probate Office, Dublin, is a document of more than ordinary interest; even with its cumbrous repetitions we owe no apology for producing it in full:–“In the name of God Amen. I, Sr Jerome Alexander of the City of Dublin, one of the unprofitable servants of Almighty God, being of a perfect sound disposing memory, praised bee God, this three and twentieth day of March in the yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second of that name by the grace of God of England, Scotland, Fraunce and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. the two and twentieth, and hereby renounceing and admitting and declareing all former Wills and Testaments by mee at any time heretofore made to bee utterly void & of none effect, doe declare this to bee my last true Will and Testament in manner & form following and doe now soe declare it to bee. And first of all I resigne my soul into the hands of Jesus Christ my blessed Saviour and Redeemer, confidently trusting and assureing myselffe in by and through his onely merritts and mediation to receive life everlasting; and I doe hereby profess myselfe to dye as I have allways lived, a sonne of the Church of England, which is the most absolute and best forme of government in all the world,’ twere to bee heartily wished that it were practised in all the Churches of Christendome, and my body I commend unto the earth from whence it came to receive decent and comely buryall, without any greate pompe or ceremonies whatso-ever, not doubting but at the last day it shall bee raised againe and united unto my soule with it for to partake of immortall and everlasting happiness.

‘An artisan of Christian Unity’: Sir Frank Willis, Rome and the YMCA

1996 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 489-505
Author(s):  
Clyde Binfield
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Christian Unity ◽  
The Church

I have always most earnestly desired that Christians should meet in Associations, such as will meet on Thursday, with this conviction, that their common Christianity ought to form a bond far more powerful to unite them to their one Lord, and Master, and Head, and in brotherhood one to another, than that their conscientious differences of opinion should form cause or excuse for hostile separation. I am glad to know that some of my brethren in the ministry of the Church of England will be with you. YMCA is a household acronym. Throughout the world people are sure that they know what it means. In 1926 two well-connected Labour politicians, the Wedgwood Benns, were in Moscow. There the head of the Bureau for Cultural Relations with Foreigners, Olga Kamenev, who was also well-connected, since she was Trotsky’s sister, told them about one of the Russian capital’s most serious problems: the street children. These youngsters, homeless since the civil war, slept under bridges and robbed railway trains:

scholarly journals Prayer Book Catechism: Past its sell-by date?

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Potgieter
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
Book Of Common Prayer ◽  
Prayer Book ◽  
The World ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Common Prayer ◽  
The Church

The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the first introduction to Anglican belief and liturgy for many. More specifically, the Book of Common Prayer of 1662 contains the traditional catechism of the Church of England, enjoining catechumens to receive training and instruction in basic doctrines and Christian living. This takes place in the contexts of the liturgy and the more comprehensive doctrinal statements of the 39 Articles of Religion. Anglican religion traditionally allowed its members to verbalise their faith in both ritual and confession, thus serving the church and not so much life in the world. A revisit of the intentions of the catechism within its historical and prayer book contexts will show that it essentially expresses lasting truths of the Christian faith. In a world increasingly divorced from particular Christian expressions, the Anglican Church needs to rethink its particular use of the catechism for its continued relevance in meeting the questions and challenges Anglicans face daily.

The Mountain and the Flower: The Power and Potential of Nature in the World of Victorian Evangelicalism

2010 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 307-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
High Church ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Tradition

In the middle decades of the nineteenth century a new wind could be felt rustling in the branches of the Church of England. The transforming effect of the Oxford Movement on the High Church tradition is the most prominent example of this phenomenon but also well established in the literature are the transformations in contemporary Anglican Evangelicalism. David Bebbington in particular has stressed the impact of Romanticism as a cultural mood within the movement, tracing its effects in a heightened supernaturalism, a preoccupation with the Second Advent and with holiness which converged at Keswick, and also an emphasis on the discernment of spiritual significance in nature. But how did this emphasis play out in the lives of Evangelicals in the second half of the century and how might it have served their mission to society? This paper seeks to address the evangelical understanding of both the power and potential of nature through the example of one prominent Anglican clergyman, William Pennefather, and one little-known evangelical initiative, the Bible Flower Mission.

Sacerdotalism

1910 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-356
Author(s):  
George E. Horr
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
The Church ◽  
Do So

The provisions for the fourth of the series of Dudleian Lectures are as follows:“The fourth and last lecture I would have for the maintaining, explaining, and proving the validity of the ordination of ministers or pastors of the churches, and so their administration of the sacraments or ordinances of religion as the same hath been practiced in New England, from the first beginning of it, and so continued at this day. Not that I would in any wise invalidate Episcopal Ordination, as it is commonly called and practiced in the Church of England; but I do esteem the method of ordination as practiced in Scotland, at Geneva, and among the dissenters in England, and in the churches in this country, to be very safe, Scriptural and valid; and that the great Head of the church, by his blessed spirit, hath owned, sanctified, and blessed them accordingly, and will continue to do so to the end of the World. Amen.”The topic of Sacerdotalism is naturally involved in the terms of this Foundation.The term “Sacerdotalism” has been defined as “the doctrine that the man who ministers in sacred things, the institution through which and the office or order in which he ministers, the acts he performs, the sacraments and rites he celebrates, are so ordained and constituted of God as to be the peculiar channels of His grace, essential to true worship, necessary to the being of religion, and the full realization of the religious life.”

Bede on the Jewish Church

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 63-73
Author(s):  
Conor O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Ecclesiastical History ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Church

We upon whom the ends of the ages have come can love with sincere affection those faithful who were in the beginning of the world, and receive them into the bosom of our love … and believe that we are also being received by them with a charitable embrace.Bede (d. 735) is renowned as the first Englishman to write seriously about the history of the church in England. But the Ecclesiastical History of the English People was not the only work of his to address the history of the church, and his interest in the past extended far beyond that book’s temporal and spatial boundaries. He saw the Anglo-Saxon church as part of a universal church whose origins lay in the pre-Incarnation past. The above quotation from his commentary On the Tabernacle, a work interested in the religious institutions of the Israelites, portrays Jews from before the Incarnation as Bede’s fellow members of that church.

Political Participation and Attitudes in the Church of England

1978 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Moyser ◽  
Kenneth Medhurst
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Pressure Groups ◽  
Mass Politics ◽  
English Society ◽  
The Church

It seems to be part of the conventional wisdom of British political science that English religious institutions and values do not demand much attention from the discipline's practitioners. It appears to be tacitly assumed that the process of secularization, and the relative absence of serious religious cleavages, have left such phenomena with minimal political significance. Nevertheless, Churches, and above all the Church of England, have traditionally occupied a position in English society that must leave some question marks against such assumptions. Mass politics, in an age of widespread indifference to institutional religion, no doubt has left Churches with considerably diminished scope for the exercize of political influence. On the other hand, these bodies still dispose of resources that, potentially at least, make them pressure groups of some weight. The politicization of moral issues, of particular interest to the Churches, may add credence to such a view.

scholarly journals Postcolonial theory as a hermeneutical tool for Biblical reading

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lazare S. Rukundwa
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

In this article, postcolonial theory is presented as a tool for Biblical interpretation, in an attempt to find colonial intentions (be they political, cultural or economic) that informed and influenced the writer’s context. Although criticism has been levelled at the church and other religious institutions for having, consciously or unconsciously, facilitated colonial conquests and imperial establishment all over the world, postcolonial theory calls them to a constructive reading that enables readers to see the concerns of the universal mission of justice. Postcolonial theory, as a tool for Biblical interpretation, deals with the Bible as a “cultural product” in time and space. However, as part of socio-scientific method, postcolonial theory encounters some crucial translation problems such as ethnocentrism and anachronism. Nevertheless, whatever hermeneutical tool the reader uses, it must yield two important things from Scripture reading: discovering life and discovering faith.

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