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John Gunstone's timely book sets out the history of the Congress Movement and places it firmly in the context of Anglo-Catholicism at the time. Although many of the facts surrounding the Congresses are known, this volume for the first time sets them out logically and shows how one meeting followed another, with extensive and useful quotation from the speakers, many distinguished, at each gathering ... The author's easy style takes the reader seamlessly from topic to topic. It is strongly recommend to all members.

John Gunstone's timely book sets out the history of the Congress Movement and places it firmly in the context of Anglo-Catholicism at the time. Although many of the facts surrounding the Congresses are known, this volume for the first time sets them out logically and shows how one meeting followed another, with extensive and useful quotation from the speakers, many distinguished, at each gathering ... The author's easy style takes the reader seamlessly from topic to topic. It is strongly recommend to all members. 'This book is highly recommended to all interested in church history, particularly those focusing on movements and doctrine ... The book can serve secular as well as church historians ... He captures well such matters in inner city squalor, fear of communism, massive unemployment, the rise of women, and the breakup of families. [It] covers institutional history ... [and] contains solid intellectual history, for he ably describes the debates between Anglo-Catholics and their opponents.' -- Justus D. Doenecke

John Gunstone's timely book sets out the history of the Congress Movement and places it firmly in the context of Anglo-Catholicism at the time. Although many of the facts surrounding the Congresses are known, this volume for the first time sets them out logically and shows how one meeting followed another, with extensive and useful quotation from the speakers, many distinguished, at each gathering ... The author's easy style takes the reader seamlessly from topic to topic. It is strongly recommend to all members. 'This book is highly recommended to all interested in church history, particularly those focusing on movements and doctrine ... The book can serve secular as well as church historians ... He captures well such matters in inner city squalor, fear of communism, massive unemployment, the rise of women, and the breakup of families. [It] covers institutional history ... [and] contains solid intellectual history, for he ably describes the debates between Anglo-Catholics and their opponents.' -- Justus D. Doenecke

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JOHN GUNSTONE is well known as the author of the acclaimed Healed, Restored, Forgiven - prayers and readings for the ministry of healing and A Touching Place. He is a Canon Emeritus of Manchester Cathedral.

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