The December issue of Anglican and Episcopal History (AEH) reaches across a broad range of geography and time to offer studies of interest related to church-state relations, liturgy, and theology.
Studies addressing church-state relations consider events in France, England, Germany, and the U.S.
Justus Doenecke considers ways two different theologies can lead to similar conclusions. He closely examines archived issues of the Anglo-Catholic weekly The Living Church to determine ways it responded to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s policies surrounding World War I. This study shows ways The Living Church editor Frederic Cook Morehouse (1868-1932) and the Presbyterian US president both came to equate Christianity with patriotism. Doenecke cautions that “…statecraft took on the trappings of a crusade” while both men assumed a universalism that was “doomed to failure be it in 1914-19 or a century thereafter.”
The study is titled “The Living Church and Wilsonianism, 1914-1920: An Ambiguous Legacy.” Doenecke is emeritus professor of history at New College of Florida.
Two studies address events in Europe.
Mary, as Our Lady of Lourdes, is well-known. Shawn Martin, head of scholarly communication at Dartmouth College, introduces readers to a lesser-known apparition of Mary that occurred in La Salette, France, in 1846.
Martin notes ways that the appearance before two children, Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat, was widely reported in European newspapers at the time. It was also interpreted politically by some as a way to support centralized government and the restoration of the French monarchy.
In “Marian Apparitions in Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue: La Salette and the Politics of Mariology in Nineteenth-Century England,” Martin argues that the different ways in which the apparition in La Sallette was interpreted politically provides lessons for the Anglican Communion and Roman Catholic Church not to let politics get in the way of what Mary was about.
Other studies with connections to church-state dynamic include:
Studies related to liturgy and theology include:
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