The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume II

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The Oxford History of Anglicanism thus supplies an invaluable study of the Anglican Church's importance and influence for any scholar of these periods, even those not directly engaged with ecclesiastical or religious history. This is especially important for volume II, which finally puts to rest the pervasive Victorian view of the eighteenth-century Church as spiritually lifeless and corrupt. * Alice J. Soulieux-Evans, Reformation * This multi-authored volume provides a very useful summation of the extensive renewal of research and scholarship on the eighteenth-century Church that has occurred in recent decades. Its major contribution is to build on studies of England itself to provide a rounded picture of the wider Anglican world in this, its early formative period. * John Wolffe, Journal of Ecclesiastical History * This volume should prove invaluable to anyone seeking to understand the complexities of the Church of England in the Long Eighteenth Century Church, and should go a long way toward overturning the charge that the church of this period was lifeless and uninteresting. * Robert D. Cornwall, Reading Religion * This series represents the most comprehensive study of Anglicanism to date. This series will take its place as a vital resource for scholarship and will serve as a milestone in the development of Anglican studies ... it is an extraordinary resource. It synthesizes a wide range of scholarship on Anglicanism. It ought to be the first point of reference for research on any aspect of Anglican history ... This is a collection that belongs in every library dedicated to the study of history and religion. * Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Anglican and Episcopal History * ...superb...In [the] course of this thoroughly enjoyable volume there are many arresting glimpses to be had of a church hard at work according to its lights and of its time. * Paul Avis, Durham University and University of Exeter *