American Ecclesiastical Law
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The Threat of an American Bishop
James B. Bell’s A War of Religion: Dissenters, Anglicans, and the American Revolution, contains a chapter on Samuel and John Adams’ resistance to the appointment of a Church of England bishop for the colonies in the 1760s. The book presents the controversy over the potential appointment of a bishop throughout the century, and it is… Continue reading
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A Repugnant Project
I’ve been thinking a good deal this year about Church of England canon law and Anglican ecclesiastical law in general, after working up a paper on Cranmer’s attempt at canon law revision for an independent study at Duke Divinity. The topic that I ended up digging into for my paper was the constitutional theory of… Continue reading
