Sydney Anglicans and the Threat to World Anglicanism
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Anglican Church
Anglican Communion
Anglican Communion tensions
Anglican Consultative Council
Appellate Tribunal
Australian Church
Australian diocesan governance debates
Australian Dioceses
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Celebrate Holy Communion
church polity
Conservative Evangelical
Diaconal Presidency
diocese
ecclesiology
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gender roles in ministry
General Synod
Hillsong Church
Lambeth Conference
Lay Presidency
liturgical conservatism
Moore College
Moore Theological College
NSW Law
Propositional Revelation
Puritan influence
St Andrew's Cathedral
St Andrew's House
St Andrew’s Cathedral
St Andrew’s House
Sydney Anglicans
Sydney Diocese
Sydney Synod
Women Bishops
Women Priests
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781409420279
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Sydney Anglicans, always ultra-conservative in terms of liturgy, theology and personal morality, have increasingly modelled themselves on sixteenth century English Puritanism. Over the past few decades, they have added radical congregationalism to the mix. They have altered church services, challenged church order, and relentlessly opposed all attempts to ordain women as priests, let alone bishops. Muriel Porter unpacks how Australia's largest and, until recently, richest diocese developed its ideological fervour, and explores the impact it is having both in Australia and the Anglican Communion.
Muriel Porter is a leading lay Anglican in Australia (member of General Synod since 1987; member of GS Standing Committee since 1989; member Melbourne Synod since 1984; member Melbourne Diocesan Council since 1985, formerly member of General Synod Doctrine Commission); she is the author of numerous books and journal articles on contemporary church issues, the most recent being Sex, Power and the Clergy, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2003; The New Puritans: The Rise of Fundamentalism in the Anglican Church, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2006;and Women in Purple: Women Bishops in Australia (Voices: Quarterly Essays on Religion in Australia), John Garratt Publishing, Melbourne, 2008. She is also an occasional commentator/opinion writer in mainstream and Anglican press, and a professional journalist and journalism academic, formerly senior lecturer in journalism at RMIT University, Melbourne, and for the past 20 years, Australia correspondent for Church Times (UK).
