Eric Mascall was one of the most prominent and prolific theologians in the Church of England in the postwar period. This article examines a series of polemical works, in which Mascall attempted to assess, and largely reject, several trends in liberal theology in the 1960s and 1970s. Mascall detected a systemic crisis in the whole relationship of…[Read more]

The disputes within the Church of England over the Scheme to reunite Anglicans and Methodists generated a great deal of heat and only limited light. Despite their long friendship, Michael Ramsey and Eric Mascall ended up diametrically and publicly opposed in relation to an existential question facing the Church: Ramsey as archbishop of Canterbury,…[Read more]

This article examines the grounds on which the Anglican philosopher and theologian Eric Mascall opposed the ordination of women, in a series of influential publications from the 1950s to the 1970s. It examines their basis in Mascall’s understanding of the church, the Incarnation and the ontological status of the sexes. It examines the particular a…[Read more]

The worldwide Anglican Communion is in possession of four institutions around which its unity is thought to be organised. This article examines the relationship between two of these Instruments of Communion at a particular point in time: the Lambeth Conference of 1968, and the tenure of Michael Ramsey as archbishop of Canterbury (1961–1974). I s…[Read more]

This chapter surveys the current state of knowledge relating to the Web history of religion, and suggests some ways forward.
Its first half attends to some debates of particular historical and methodological note with which the emerging history of religions on the Web may fruitfully be brought into conversation. These include debates concerning…[Read more]

National web spheres include content that resides within geographically non-specific domains, such as .com or .org. However, little is known as to why this content ‘lives’ outside the ccTLD. The island of Ireland is formed of two political units with two ccTLDs (.uk and .ie). This chapter takes the case of the Christian churches in Ireland as a c…[Read more]

Examines evangelical encounters with the arts as: consumer and performer in the ‘neutral’ sphere of the home; as users of the arts in public worship; as evangelists; and as moralists and reformers of the pursuits of others. It deals mainly with music, literature, the visual arts and drama, and its examples are drawn chiefly from Britain and the…[Read more]