Glorious Companions : Five Centuries of Anglican Spirituality

by Schmidt, Richard H.

• ISBN13: 9780802839206
• ISBN10: 0802839207
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Author Biography

Richard H. Schmidt retired in 2000 after serving for thirty years as an Episcopal parish priest in West Virginia, Missouri, and Alabama. He has taught undergraduate religion courses and has edited several religious publications, including The Episcopalian. He lives in Chesterfield, Missouri

Table of Contents

Introduction	viii
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)	1	(11)
Father of the Prayer Book
John Jewel (1522-1571)	12	(9)
First Anglican Apologist
Richard Hooker (1554-1600)	21	(13)
Definitive Anglican
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)	34	(13)
Private Devotions
John Donne (1573-1631)	47	(11)
He Dueled with Death
George Herbert (1593-1633)	58	(13)
Poet Parson
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)	71	(12)
Loyalist
Thomas Traherne (1637-1674)	83	(11)
Champion of Felicity
William Law (1686-1761)	94	(11)
Commando in the Chapel of Ease
Joseph Butler (1692-1752)	105	(11)
The Thinking Man's Bishop
John Wesley (1703-1791)	116	(11)
Outside Agitator
Charles Wesley (1707-1788)	127	(14)
Skylark
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)	141	(11)
Spiritual Gladiator
Hannah More (1745-1833)	152	(11)
More than Lady Bountiful
Charles Simeon (1759-1836)	163	(11)
Pulpit Revolutionary
John Keble (1792-1866)	174	(11)
Herald of Revival
Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872)	185	(11)
Citizen of the Kingdom
William Porcher Dubose (1836-1918)	196	(12)
Rebel with a Cause
Charles Gore (1853-1932)	208	(12)
Liberal or Conservative?
Vida Dutton Scudder (1861-1954)	220	(11)
She Dreamt of a New World
Roland Allen (1868-1947)	231	(11)
Missionary to the Missionaries
Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941)	242	(11)
Guide in the Life of Prayer
William Temple (1881-1944)	253	(13)
Philosopher Prelate
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)	266	(10)
Whimsical Apologist
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)	276	(11)
Mere Christian
Verna J. Dozier (B. 1917)	287	(11)
Re-envisioning the Laity
Madeleine L'engle (B. 1918)	298	(12)
Teller of Tales
Festo Kivengere (1921?-1988)	310	(11)
World Evangelist
Desmond Tutu (B. 1931)	321	(11)
Prophet of Forgiveness
Acknowledgments	332	(2)
Index	334