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The Novelties Which Disturb Our Peace: Letters Addressed To The Bishops, Clergy, And Laity Of The Protestant Episcopal Church

The Novelties Which Disturb Our Peace: Letters Addressed To The Bishops, Clergy, And Laity Of The Protestant Episcopal Church

Henry Hopkins, John

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Fiction AnthologiesGeneral ChristianityGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354506135
ISBN13: 9789354506130
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Few controversies cut as deep as those fought in the name of unity. In The Novelties Which Disturb Our Peace, John Henry Hopkins confronts the tremors shaking 19th century Episcopalianism as the Oxford Movement controversy reached American shores. These letters still unsettle us. Hopkins, a leading American bishop, writes into a moment when Romanising fears and calls for reform collided in sermons, newspapers, and diocesan halls. Presented as a religious letters collection addressed to bishops, clergy, and laity, Hopkins writes with the urgency of a pastor and the precision of a polemicist. The result is a complete letters edition that reads as theological polemic essays: arguments over anglican doctrinal novelties, warnings about tractarianism in Anglicanism, and a steady insistence that church unity and peace depend on clear teaching. For readers of American Anglican history, it offers a candid snapshot of an episcopal church controversy in progress; for today's parishes, it remains a sharp clergy training resource and a plainspoken guide for episcopal lay instruction, showing how doctrine, worship, and authority were debated in public. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this volume has been restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, it belongs beside the classic documents that chart the development of modern Anglican identity, whether you come for the drama of ecclesiastical dispute or for a disciplined, historically grounded argument. Ideal for students of ecclesiastical rhetoric and for collectors of enduring Anglican classics.

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