Sydney Anglicans and the Threat to World Anglicanism

Name: Sydney Anglicans and the Threat to World Anglicanism
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The Sydney Experiment

By Muriel Porter

Series: Routledge Contemporary Ecclesiology

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Sydney Anglicans and the Threat to World Anglicanism explores the rise of ultra-conservative ideology within Sydney's Anglican diocese, tracing its roots to sixteenth-century English Puritanism. Muriel Porter examines how this faction has altered liturgy, challenged church hierarchy, and staunchly opposed the ordination of women. The book offers insight into the diocese's development and its growing influence on the global Anglican Communion.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary religious movements, Anglicanism, church politics, and theology. It benefits scholars, clergy, and laypersons seeking to understand conflicts within the Anglican Communion and the impact of conservative factions.

Sydney Anglicans, always ultra-conservative in terms of liturgy, theology and personal morality, have increasingly modelled themselves on sixteenth century English Puritanism. This title unpacks how Australia's largest diocese developed its ideological fervour, and explores the impact it is having both in Australia and the Anglican Communion.

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Sydney Anglicans and the Threat to World Anglicanism by Muriel Porter explores the ultra-conservative nature of Sydney Anglicans, focusing on their adherence to liturgy, theology, and personal morality that closely reflects sixteenth-century English Puritanism. Over recent decades, they have increasingly embraced radical congregationalism.

Porter investigates how this diocese, Australia's largest and previously its richest, has significantly altered church services, challenged church order, and persistently resisted the ordination of women as priests and bishops.

With keen insight, the book examines the development of Sydney Anglicans' ideological fervour and the substantial impact this has had both in Australia and on the broader Anglican Communion.

Series: Routledge Contemporary Ecclesiology

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Sydney Anglicans and the Threat to World Anglicanism

By Muriel Porter

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Praised as a "timely and incisive examination" by Judith Maltby of Oxford, the book is recognised for shifting focus from North America to Sydney's role in Anglican tensions. The Church of England Newspaper highlights it as an essential update to Porter's earlier work, The New Puritans, bringing new understanding. The Church Times regards it as a personal yet valuable contribution to 21st-century Anglican studies, addressing a uniquely Australian yet globally significant issue.

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ISBN: 9781409420286

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 August 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

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Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 510g

Pages: 192

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Muriel Porter Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Series: Routledge Contemporary Ecclesiology

About the Author

Muriel Porter is a leading lay Anglican in Australia (member of General Synod since 1987; member of GS Standing Committee since 1989; member Melbourne Synod since 1984; member Melbourne Diocesan Council since 1985, formerly member of General Synod Doctrine Commission); she is the author of numerous books and journal articles on contemporary church issues, the most recent being Sex, Power and the Clergy, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2003; The New Puritans: The Rise of Fundamentalism in the Anglican Church, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2006;and Women in Purple: Women Bishops in Australia (Voices: Quarterly Essays on Religion in Australia), John Garratt Publishing, Melbourne, 2008. She is also an occasional commentator/opinion writer in mainstream and Anglican press, and a professional journalist and journalism academic, formerly senior lecturer in journalism at RMIT University, Melbourne, and for the past 20 years, Australia correspondent for Church Times (UK).

Sydney Anglicans and the Threat to World Anglicanism