Download or read book Doctrinal Controversies in the Church of England 1860s 1960s written by A. Katherine Grieb and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores some of the tensions inherent in the legitimate need of a denomination, such as Anglicanism, to have its character and message announced clearly and consistently and the corresponding duty and responsibility of biblical scholars and doctrinal theologians within theological education and bishops leading the Church to argue for revision and reform of the academic disciplines of doctrinal theology and biblical interpretation. It revisits some of the major doctrinal controversies in the Church of England associated with the rise of modernism during the period from the 1860s to the 1960s, when challenges were posed to the Church doctrine and biblical interpretation by studies in philosophy, religion, geology, biology, history, archaeology, political theory, psychology and other such modern sciences. As the Church dealt with controversial statements and actions of scholars and bishops, canon law played an important role in supplying both the procedural framework and substantive principles by which these controversies could be resolved; at the same time, questions of canon law were inevitably also clarified in the process. Doctrinal controversies studied include: the Gorham case on the meaning of baptism, the expulsion of F.D. Maurice from King's College, Essays and reviews and especially the essay by Benjamin Jowett on biblical interpretation, The Bishop Colenso controversy, the Religious Tests Act of 1871, Lux mundi and Bishop Charles Gore, Campbell and the "New theology", Foundations (1911-1912), Bishop Hensley Henson (1917-1918), Doctrine in the Church of England (1938), Bishop Barnes's two books on science and religion (1933 and 1947), Soundings (1962), Honest to God (1963) by Bishop Robinson, and Subscription and assent to the Thirty-nine articles (1968). The dissertation reviews two documents on clergy discipline relating to doctrine, ritual, and ceremony, proposing amendments to Ecclesiastical jurisdiction measure 1963 and reflects briefly on the role of canon law and of bishops.