A chapter-by-chapter survey of the major issues that confronted the Episcopal Church during the turbulent years between 1945-1985: women's ordination, Prayer Book and hymnal revision, sexual morality, civil rights, membership rise and decline, the schismatic movements, ecumenical issues, the renewal movements, and more. Appendix includes a year-by-year chronology of major events, glossary of church terms, membership statistics, and bibliography. This book was first published in 1987.
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David E. Sumner, Ph.D., is professor of journalism at Ball State University where he has taught since 1990. He was director of communications for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio from 1981-86 when most of this book was written. He has a Master of Theology from the University of the South and a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. He wrote articles on Anglicanism for the Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook from 1988 to 1999.
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