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Evensong

- Reflections on the Church in England
Af: Richard Morris Engelsk Paperback

Evensong

- Reflections on the Church in England
Af: Richard Morris Engelsk Paperback
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Parish churches have been at the heart of communities for more than a thousand years. But now, fewer than two in one hundred people regularly attend services in an Anglican church, and many have never been inside one. Since the idea of ''church'' is its people, the buildings are becoming husks - staples of our landscapes, but without meaning or purpose. Some churches are finding vigorous community roles with which to carry on, but the institutional decline is widely seen as terminal.

Yet for Richard Morris, post-war parsonages were the happy backdrop of his childhood. In Evensong he searches for what it was that drew his father and hundreds like him towards ordination as they came home from war in 1945. Along the way we meet all kinds of people - archbishops, chaplains, campaigners, bell-ringers, bureaucrats, archaeologists, gravediggers, architects, scroungers - and follow some of them to dark places.

Part personal odyssey, part lyrical history, Evensong asks what churches stand for and what they can tell us; it explores why Anglicanism has often been fractious, and why it has become so diffuse. Spanning over two thousand years, it draws on new discoveries, reflects on the current state of the Church in England and ends amid the messy legacies of colonialism and empire.

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Parish churches have been at the heart of communities for more than a thousand years. But now, fewer than two in one hundred people regularly attend services in an Anglican church, and many have never been inside one. Since the idea of ''church'' is its people, the buildings are becoming husks - staples of our landscapes, but without meaning or purpose. Some churches are finding vigorous community roles with which to carry on, but the institutional decline is widely seen as terminal.

Yet for Richard Morris, post-war parsonages were the happy backdrop of his childhood. In Evensong he searches for what it was that drew his father and hundreds like him towards ordination as they came home from war in 1945. Along the way we meet all kinds of people - archbishops, chaplains, campaigners, bell-ringers, bureaucrats, archaeologists, gravediggers, architects, scroungers - and follow some of them to dark places.

Part personal odyssey, part lyrical history, Evensong asks what churches stand for and what they can tell us; it explores why Anglicanism has often been fractious, and why it has become so diffuse. Spanning over two thousand years, it draws on new discoveries, reflects on the current state of the Church in England and ends amid the messy legacies of colonialism and empire.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9781474614238
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 147461423X
Kategori: England
Udg. Dato: 30 mar 2023
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 128mm
Forlag: Orion Publishing Co
Oplagsdato: 30 mar 2023
Forfatter(e): Richard Morris
Forfatter(e) Richard Morris


Kategori England


ISBN-13 9781474614238


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 336


Udgave


Længde 22mm


Bredde 197mm


Højde 128mm


Udg. Dato 30 mar 2023


Oplagsdato 30 mar 2023


Forlag Orion Publishing Co

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