The Testing of Vocation
100 years of ministry selection in the Church of England
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2013
448 pages
978-0-7151-4334-6 (ISBN)
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The Testing of Vocation is a comprehensive study that will provide an essential reference volume for historians and all students of the vocation and ministry in today's Church. It explores in detail the Church of England's concept of vocation and how it has developed over the century in response to changes in society and in the church.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Some Key Dates
- A Note on the Governance of the Church of England in the Twentieth Century
- 1 Introduction: Vocation in the Twentieth Century
- 2 The Establishment of the Central Advisory Council of Training for the Ministry from the Beginning of the Century to 1913
- 3 The New Council Starts Work from 1913
- 4 World War One
- 5 The Inter-War Years 1919-39
- 6 The Archbishops' Commission on Training, 1937-44
- 7 World War Two and the Establishing of Selection Conferences, 1939-45
- 8 The Fisher Years
- 9 The Pendulum Years, 1960-70
- 10 Keeping Up to Date: Revisions to the Selection Procedures, 1945-98
- 11 The Search for a Strategy 1970-2000
- 12 In Retrospect
- Appendix A Correspondence between Randall Davidson, Bishop of Rochester, and C. H. Waller, Principal St John's, Highbury
- Appendix B Chairmen and Secretaries of CACTM/ACCM/ABM/Ministry Division
- Appendix C Constitution of CACTM/ACCM/ABM/Ministry Division
- Appendix D Working-class Candidates
- Appendix E Earl Grey's Letter to The Times, 4 June 1927, on the Sponsorship Scheme
- Appendix F Sources of Grants for Candidates for Ordination 1918-37
- Appendix G The Awarding of Grants from 1933
- A Appendix H From the Papers of the Archbishops' Commission on Training
- Appendix I Memorandum (1942) from the Service Candidates Committee to the Archbishop of Canterbury (Temple) for Him and the Archbishop of York to Send to all Service Chaplains towards the End of World War Two
- Appendix J War Office Selection Boards
- Appendix K Extract from Archbishop Fisher's Presidential Address to the Church Assembly on CACTM, 11 October 1945
- Appendix L Correspondence Between George Clay Hubback, Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Regarding Worship at Selection Centres
- Appendix M From ABM Policy Paper 3A, Report of a Working Party on Criteria for Selection for Ministry in the Church of England, October 1993
- Appendix N (i) Numbers Ordained
- Appendix N (ii) Selection Conference Statistics
- The Society of the Faith
- Bibliography
- Index
