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Book Reviews All Books Published in 2019 Unless Otherwise Stated Book Reviews All books published in 2019 unless otherwise stated. Additional reviews are published on our website at: www.readers.cofe.anglican.org/resources Queen Victoria’s Arch- Bathsheba Survives Too Much Information? Luminaries Batting for the Poor Out of the Whirlwind bishops of Canterbury Sara M. Koenig Andrew Graystone Rowan Williams Andrew Bradstock Adrian Roberts Michael Chandler SCM £19.99 pbk Canterbury Press £12.99 pbk SPCK £12.99 hbk SPCK £19.99 hbk Sacristy £9.99 pbk Sacristy £17.99 pbk 9780334058540 9781786221599 9780281082957 9780281081059 9781789590678 9781789590562 Was Bathsheba a helpless This lively book about This new offering from the This fine book is the Subtitled ‘Innocent pain as a Only six men led the Church victim or an unscrupulous twenty-first century digital prolific pen of our former authorised biography of challenge to God’, this book of England during Victoria’s seductress? Were the church culture is subtitled ‘Ten archbishop provides twenty David Sheppard (1929-2005), starts with a brief outline of long reign: William Howley, John Sumner, fathers right to consider her story an Essential Questions for Digital Christians’. I insights into the lives of Christians who have England test cricketer and Anglican bishop. the book of Job. The first chapter describes Charles Longley, Archibald Tait, Edward allegorical representation of Christ and his think of myself as a modern believer, and I made important impacts through history. After his evangelical conversion at Cambridge, the author sitting with his very sick and Benson and Frederick Temple. This detailed, church? Bathsheba appears in only seventy-six enjoyed reading it. I found myself alternately These vignettes or essays are not strictly Sheppard gradually realised his true vocation much-loved son who is dying from erudite book provides good biographies of verses of 2 Samuel, and so much of her story is provoked, challenged, troubled and biographical. Rather, they focus on how the and retired from cricket, at the height of his uncontrollable seizures in a hospital ward. Hal each, probing their personal lives and left unexplained that she has been an object of entertained. Andrew Graystone does not individuals set out to decipher Christianity fame and fortune, to seek ordination. He suffered from severe brain damage whilst still previous careers, but more importantly show- speculation for centuries. Koenig’s discussion provide ready answers on how Christians within the context or the culture of their served with distinction in the deprived inner in the womb and whilst he can drink and ing how the church evolved in policy and of the extent and variety of interpretation should live with or without the internet. The times. Thus, they are luminaries as well as areas of London before appointment as chew food, he communicates only non- character through the 19th century. For ranges from the Rabbinic attempts to flesh out book is not about the joys or otherwise of leaders; they help us make sense of a Bishop of Woolwich in 1969 and Liverpool in verbally with his loving carers who do Howley flourished in the age of the stage- the story to its appearance in modern popular social networking. It doesn’t paint our modern perplexing world. Williams’ choice is 1975. As a priest he consistently preached everything else for him. The opening pages coach, when England population was still song. Along the way there is a detailed world in black or white. It does explore, interesting – from St Paul to Oscar Romero, and practised the social gospel and his books, tell of the impact on the author of Hal’s arrival dominantly rural; and Temple knew the examination of the medieval church’s through well-told stories, facts and philosophy, the late 20th century martyr. Augustine of Bias to the Poor and Built as a City bear in the family, then moves to discuss in depth coming of the motor car, and the rapid obsession with sexual sin, with its iconography some of the extraordinary things about Hippo and Augustine of Canterbury – two testimony to his concern for urban priority how God came to create a world where some growth of industrial cities. The Victorian of the beautiful seductress, and the interconnected culture today, and what it contrasting saints – are included; Cranmer and areas. He was the guiding influence behind inhabitants face the possibility of inconsolable church had to react to the growing knowl- Reformation period in which Bathsheba means to be an authentic disciple in a digital Tyndale represent the time of Reformation; the famous ‘Faith in the City’ report which distress. This philosophical/ theological issue edge of the enlightenment, especially science becomes merely the object of David’s sin. age. I particularly enjoyed the chapter on what and for the 19th century, Williams has chosen drew the ire of Mrs Thatcher and her is addressed with clarity and depth. The (including Darwinism) and biblical criticism, Koenig does not just focus on the relationship it means to be a person rather than a machine, William Wilberforce, Florence Nightingale and, government. At Liverpool, his partnership thinking is rigorous, the language is non- and it often failed to do this well, preferring of David and Bathsheba, but includes the chapter on who owns my information, the surprisingly perhaps, Charles Dickens. Michael with Archbishop Derek Warlock was a model technical, and the weighty end-notes give convoluted legal battles to civilised debates. discussion of the death of their first child and chapter about the church, and the chapter Ramsey and Dietrich Bonhoeffer are solid and of modern ecumenism which has seldom thoughtful summaries of philosophers from Similarly, the fission between ‘high’ and ‘low’, the motivation of Bathsheba’s grandfather about being a good digital neighbour. predictable 20th century luminaries. been matched. This detailed and well- Aristotle to CS Lewis. This academic evangelicalism and what became Anglo-Ca- Ahitophel, which was of great interest to Graystone’s style is engaging, intelligent and Collectively, this is an excellent anthology of researched biography provides a succinct philosophy is followed by a heart-stopping tholicism (the Oxford Movement), was never scholars in the Enlightenment period, as was witty. It is a book I will want to talk about with lives, a book that takes the reader beyond history of the Anglican church in the late 20th dream (from Hal’s bedside) reflecting Job’s easy to handle. Some archbishops, notably her role as Queen Mother in 1 Kings. The my friends. In my opinion, it should be biographical facts into the territory of century but, more significantly, provides a vision of God in the whirlwind, as the author Tait, were more decisive than others – though shifting focus of interpretation of this required reading for all in positions of church theological reflection. Like each luminary he readable and attractive portrait of a sporting draws together his search for a loving God in all had their beds of nails. This readable and enigmatic story down the years reveals as leadership and those in training to be so. I has selected, Williams shows the light of the and Christian hero – an example for our age. a created order given free will and prone to comprehensive work is recommended as a much about the history of Christianity as it wholeheartedly recommend it. gospel within the complexity of human life. It is highly recommended. sin. A powerful read! carefully crafted and helpful addition to the does about the text itself. HOWARD ROWE ALICE BURDETT LEONARD RICKARD CHRISTINE McMULLEN history of the Anglican church. KIRSTY ANDERSON PETER CLOUGH Michael Green Preaching Women Unorthodox: LGBT + by his friends Identity and Faith Angels Life with St Benedict My Sour-Sweet Days Liz Shercliff Julia Cameron (ed.) SCM £16.99 pbk Sean Richardson (ed.) Peter Stanford Richard Frost Mark Oakley IVP £16.99 hbk Five Leaves £7.99 pbk Hodder & Stoughton £20 hbk BRF £9.99 pbk SPCK £9.99 pbk 9780334058380 9781789741148 9781910170601 9781473622104 9780857468130 9780281080328 An ambitious book – Michael Green, who died last This book contains stories of It is an oddity of our day that This is a handbook for those All those familiar with asserting that (and why) A year, was a man of rare gifts. fourteen people, all based in belief in angels has grown who would like to incorporate will welcome women preachers need to Splash of Words An evangelist, a scholar, a priest, a writer of Britain, with a commitment to their own when belief in God has the discipline of the Rule of St another book of poetic find their voices as women, and how to go apologetics and a leader in Anglican religious tradition and/or their relationship declined. As Peter Stanford’s book shows, the Benedict into their lives. These teachings are commentary by Mark Oakley. They will be about it. It also includes a chapter on charismatic renewal, his influence, like that of with God. They also share ‘Unorthodox’ sexual idea of the winged messengers is a very old divided into ‘everyday reflections’ with each equally enthusiastic about this work on hermeneutics, one on hearing Bible women, a his contemporaries David Watson and John or gender identities. They are lesbian, gay, one in human thought – found way before one beginning with Benedict’s instructions for George Herbert. Oakley has chosen forty of method how to construct a sermon, sermon Stott, has helped to change the church. This bisexual or transgender – but many prefer to Judaism and Christianity. Angels were key to those living in monastic communities, the poet’s works. Following each is a helpful excerpts and questions for reflection, all in 168 collection of essays takes us through all of his describe themselves as ‘queer’ - originally an the incarnation narratives and to the giving of followed by a reflection for ‘ordinary, everyday commentary on the poem as well as a pages.
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