Archbishop of Canterbury
In: EcclesiologyOne way in which the comprehensiveness of the Church of England, as a church both catholic and reformed, has been both represented and secured in recent times is by alternating Evangelical and Anglo-Catholic (or ‘Catholic Anglican’, as we sometimes say now) Archbishops of Canterbury. We trust that the Crown Nominations Commission (a commission of the General Synod) has selected the candidates on their overall merits, not merely because they came from a different stable to their predecessors. But it seems not unreasonable to suggest that one of the possible ‘merits’ to be taken into consideration is their ability to balance
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Owen Chadwick, Michael Ramsey: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990).
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Robert Beaken, Cosmo Lang: Archbishop in War and Crisis (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2012); Andrew Chandler and David Hein, Archbishop Fisher, 1945–1961: Church, State and World (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, vt: Ashgate, 2012). Webster’s and Chandler and Hein’s books are in the Ashgate ‘Archbishops of Canterbury Series’. See also the older biographies: J. G. Lockhart, Cosmo Gordon Lang (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1949) and Edward Carpenter, Archbishop Fisher: His Life and Times (Norwich: The Canterbury Press, 1991).
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See F. A. Iremonger, William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury: His Life and Letters (London: Oxford University Press, 1948); John Kent, William Temple (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); Stephen Spencer, Christ in All Things: William Temple and His Writings (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2015).
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One way in which the comprehensiveness of the Church of England, as a church both catholic and reformed, has been both represented and secured in recent times is by alternating Evangelical and Anglo-Catholic (or ‘Catholic Anglican’, as we sometimes say now) Archbishops of Canterbury. We trust that the Crown Nominations Commission (a commission of the General Synod) has selected the candidates on their overall merits, not merely because they came from a different stable to their predecessors. But it seems not unreasonable to suggest that one of the possible ‘merits’ to be taken into consideration is their ability to balance
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