1st Edition

Archbishop Randall Davidson

By Michael Hughes Copyright 2018
240 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

Randall Davidson was Archbishop of Canterbury for quarter of a century. Davidson was a product of the Victorian ecclesiastical and social establishment, whose advance through the Church was dependent on the patronage of Queen Victoria, but he became Archbishop at a time of huge social and political change. He guided the Church of England through the turbulence of the Edwardian period, when it... Read more

Introduction

1 The Making of an Archbishop

2 Archbishop Davidson and the Edwardian Crisis: A Victorian in a Changing World (1903-1914)

3 Archbishop Davidson and the Boundaries of Anglicanism (1903-14)

4 Archbishop Davidson and the First World War (1914-1918)

5 Archbishop Davidson and the Development of the Ecumenical Movement (1918-1928)

6 Archbishop Davidson and the Challenge of Social and Economic Reform (1918-1928)

7 Archbishop Davidson, Church, and State (1918-1928)

Assessment

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Biography

Michael Hughes is Professor of History and Head of Department at Lancaster University. He has published a book and numerous articles on Nonconformity in the twentieth century, as well as writing extensively on Anglo-Russian relations, with a particular emphasis on relations between Anglicanism and Orthodoxy (a subject with which Randall Davidson was particularly concerned). He was for many years a Lay Reader in the Anglican Church and has published five monographs and more than thirty articles in scholarly journals.