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A. N. Wilson is a distinguished contemporary English author and journalist whose writing constantly displays the depth of his understanding of and concern for the Church of England. Himself once a devout Anglican, albeit one of the Church's more vocal watchdogs, Wilson now writes as an outsider and an unbeliever. Yet he is still widely read and highly regarded as a commentator on the institution, and as one who is never reluctant to confront the ills which he believes responsible for its demise. / Wilson takes the church hierarchy to task for neglecting spiritual matters in favour of "issues". He employs satire to illustrate what he believes to be the general mediocrity of the clergy. In his journalism Wilson continues to lambast liturgical changes and to question modern biblical criticism. / By using representative selections from Wilson's writings as novelist, biographer, polemicist and journalist, and by chronicling his own highly publicised religious quest, this study seeks to show the dilemma of a substantial body of contemporary English Anglicans. Furthermore, the inability and impotence of the Established Church in England to meet the needs of its traditional and more moderate worshippers is adequately reflected in Wilson's work.

The subject of this dissertation is Richard Hooker's defence of the royal headship of the church in the final book of his treatise Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie. His treatment of this political question is remarkable for its depth of theological analysis. Hooker approaches the issue of the royal headship from three main theological angles: first, from the standpoint of the crucial distinction of Reformation soteriology between the so-called 'Two Realms' or 'Two Kingdoms'; secondly, according to the categories and distinctions of basic systematic doctrine, notably Chalcedonian Christology and Trinitarian dogma; and thirdly, he applies the magisterial reformers' test of ecclesiological orthodoxy. Modern students of Hooker's political thought have been very reluctant to bridge the gulf between the theological and political realms of his discourse. As a result, the theological matrix of Hooker's doctrine of the Royal Supremacy has been quite neglected. The erection of such a bridge is indispensable to our understanding of the alien mentalite which underlies this important Elizabethan controversy. We shall attempt to demonstrate that Hooker's employment of theological argument in defence of the Royal Supremacy was central to his ultimate apologetic purpose. He wrote the Lawes with a view to 'resolving the consciences' of the Disciplinarian-Puritan critics of the Elizabethan Settlement. He sought to convince these opponents by the most compelling mode of argument they knew - theological argument - that the royal headship was wholly consistent with the cardinal principles of the ecclesiology and political theory of the magisterial Reformation. In the first chapter there is a consideration of the methodological difficulties of modern Hooker scholarship. This is followed by an examination of Hooker's apologetic intention and a division of the chief theological elements of the controversy over the Royal Supremacy. Chapter two explores the soteriological foundations of Hooker's doctrine of the Two Realms and Two Regiments as well as his relation to the authority of the magisterial reformation. Chapter three examines Hooker's ecclesiology as the pivotal link between his soteriological 'first principles' and his political theory. Finally, in chapter four, the considerations of the previous chapters will be applied directly to the interpretation of Hooker's theology of the royal headship as presented by him in Book VIII of the Lawes.

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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of Modern History, 2007. / Bibliography: leaves 426-449. / Introduction -- Founding a colonial settler society with 'the blessing of nobleman and parson' -- Exporting gentry values: Brisbane's first Anglican bishop -- A clerical caste? A different kind of gentleman? Clergy and their wives -- In their place: being English and being Anglican in early Queensland -- Brisbane Anglicans: a socio-economic profile -- Women's business: domesticity and upholding the faith -- Men's business: the public face of the Church -- Beyond one man's power: Anglican parish life -- Establishing a synod for the diocese -- Conclusion. / The mid-nineteenth century was marked by a rapid expansion of the Church of England throughout the British Empire, much of the impetus coming from missionary societies and ecclesiastical and political elites in England. In particular, High Churchmen promoted the extension of the episcopate to provide the colonies with a complete Anglican polity, and in an effort to transmit to the colony something of the Anglican/English culture they valued. The means used were the Colonial Bishoprics Fund (CBF) and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG), both of which were supported by a Tory paternalist elite in England. This study concerns the foundation of the Diocese of Brisbane in 1859, which was a part of this expansion, and which was effected during the brief Tory administration of Lord Derby. It is unsurprising then, that the first Bishop of Brisbane, the Right Reverend E.W. Tufnell, came from the Tory High Church tradition. The clergy he took to the diocese were of a similar theological and social outlook.--The period from the proclamation of free settlement in the Moreton Bay District in 1842 to the departure of the bishop for retirement in England in 1874, was a period of rapid population growth, immigrants arriving mainly from Britain and Ireland. The policy of the imperial government was to try to balance the emigration from Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales in proportion to their population and religious denomination. This meant that Anglicans were not as strongly represented in the colonial population as in England; emigrants from the other three countries being much less likely to be Anglicans. The bulk of those arriving in Queensland were working class or petit bourgeois, so consequently the socio-economic structure of Anglicanism in Queensland did not reflect that in England. Moreover, by the time the first Anglican bishop arrived in Brisbane, all state support for religious purposes was withdrawn. The Church of England in Queensland had to adapt to these significant differences of context.--Drawing on parish and diocesan records, the records of SPG, CBF and other organisations in England, personal documents (diaries and letters) and newspapers, this survey of Anglicanism in Brisbane diocese in the early colonial period, charts some of the ways Anglicans devised to create a distinctively Anglican community. The gendered roles of Anglican men and women; the various ways in which parishes came into being, were administered and financed; and the creation of a diocesan synod all bear testimony to the adaptability of Anglicans to their colonial context. Though the framework of this study is provided by the institutional church, diocesan records are sparse, and much of the content concerns the Anglican laity. This has provided an opportunity to explore heretofore neglected aspects of Anglicanism. It is a small beginning in the writing of a 'bottom-up' history of the Anglican Church in Australia. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / vi, 449 leaves ill

In 1922, as the Missionary Secretary of the Student Christian Movement in UK, R. O. participated in the World's Student Christian Federation (WSCF), which gave him a special relationship with China and predestined him for his service in Hong Kong. During the Sino-Japanese War time, R. O. led and participated in many social movements, which strongly supported China to fight for freedom. Among these movements, the Chinese Industrial Co-operation Movement is the most famous one, through which R. O. maintained good relations with both Kuomingtang(KMT) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As a far-sighted church leader, he was deeply committed to building up a vigorous Chinese church. He was ahead of his time in ordaining Mok Sau Tseng as the first Chinese assistant bishop in South China in 1935, as well as ordaining Deaconess Florence Li Tim-Oi to be the first woman priest in the world in 1944. In 1956, R. O. visited the New Communist China as the first church leader from Hong Kong; after this visit, he was called "the pink Bishop". Because he then began to promote a positive view on the role of Communism in the development of China. Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s faced considerable social pressures. In the meantime, R. O. led the churches in massive response to the millions of refugees and played a significant role as one of the chief architects of the miracle of the post-war years in Hong Kong. Whether in Britain, China or Hong Kong, his concern for China and Chinese people was his expression of God's will in China in practice. / Ronald Owen Hall was an important and remarkable figure in the history of Christianity in China as the seventh Bishop of Hong Kong Anglican Church. He served as bishop of Hong Kong 34 years (1932-1966), which included being the Bishop of South China of Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui (CHSKH) (1932-1951). / Though he has been well recognized as an influential figure, it is unfortunately that not much has been systematically written on his contribution to the history of Christianity in China. This dissertation therefore focuses on Bishop Hall and his relationship with China, and seeks to shed light on it through research about Bishop Hall, especially how deeply his unique theology influenced his relation to China. The study endeavors to explore how Bishop Hall sought to convey in practice God's will for China in interface between western Christian tradition and Chinese society. The historical data presented in this paper is based on a thorough and broad review of primary materials. The primary resources used in this thesis include the Archives of Bishop R. O. Hall and other relevant and important archives. Through this case study, it hopes to provide new insight on the missionary history in 20 Century. / 吳青. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: 2188. / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-203). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Wu Qing.