William Conybeare, Church Parties

TY - BOOK

T1 - William Conybeare, Church Parties

AU - Burns, Arthur

N1 - Edition of 1855 text drawing on 1999 edition of several versions of the text

PY - 2012/2/20

Y1 - 2012/2/20

N2 - Conybeare’s renowned essay aims to set out a comprehensive account of the various parties which were to be found within the Church of England in the mid-nineteenth century, tackling this theme by employing first a qualitative and then a quantitative approach to his subject. The first and by far the longest part describes the characteristic theology, ministry, manners, achievements and shortcomings of the different divisions Conybeare identifies. He then proceeds to experiment with various means of calculating the number of clerical adherents attached to the various parties, before offering a tabular account of their relative strengths. The work concludes with a short reflection on the implications of his findings for the future of the Church of England.In the version of the essay reproduced here, first published in 1855, Conybeare also provides both a preface and a postscript in which he responds to critics of his work and explains some of the changes he had introduced since the first publication in the "Edinburgh Review" (1853).Edited by Dr. Arthur Burns, professor of Modern British History at King’s College London, this edition contains a biographical note, summary, introduction, bibliography and hyperlinked explanatory notes.

AB - Conybeare’s renowned essay aims to set out a comprehensive account of the various parties which were to be found within the Church of England in the mid-nineteenth century, tackling this theme by employing first a qualitative and then a quantitative approach to his subject. The first and by far the longest part describes the characteristic theology, ministry, manners, achievements and shortcomings of the different divisions Conybeare identifies. He then proceeds to experiment with various means of calculating the number of clerical adherents attached to the various parties, before offering a tabular account of their relative strengths. The work concludes with a short reflection on the implications of his findings for the future of the Church of England.In the version of the essay reproduced here, first published in 1855, Conybeare also provides both a preface and a postscript in which he responds to critics of his work and explains some of the changes he had introduced since the first publication in the "Edinburgh Review" (1853).Edited by Dr. Arthur Burns, professor of Modern British History at King’s College London, this edition contains a biographical note, summary, introduction, bibliography and hyperlinked explanatory notes.

KW - Anglicanism

KW - Evangelicalism

KW - High Churchmanship

KW - Ritualism

KW - Broad Church

KW - British history

KW - nineteenth century

KW - ecclesiastical history

KW - Church of England

M3 - Scholarly edition

BT - William Conybeare, Church Parties

PB - Nolitho

CY - Oxford

ER -