Title The education of the Anglican clergy 1780-1839 / Sara Slinn

Published Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages) : PDF file(s) Series Studies in modern British religious history Studies in modern British religious history. Contents Part I. Entrants to the Clerical Profession, 1789-1839 : -- 1. Recruitment to the established church -- 2. Episcopal ordination : policy and practice -- Part II. Routes to Ordination : -- 3. The ordinand and the university -- 4. Literate clergy and the grammar schools -- 5. Autodidacts, tutors for orders and parish clerical seminaries -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Ordination profiles of bishops, 1780-1839 -- Appendix 2. A note on methodology Summary This study of recruitment to the ministry of the Church of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries overturns many long-standing assumptions about the education and backgrounds of the clergy in late Hanoverian England and Wales. It offers insights into the nature and development of the profession generally and into the role that individual bishops played in shaping the staffing of their dioceses. In its exploration of how it was possible for boys of relatively humble social origins to be promoted into the pulpits of the established Church, it throws light on mechanisms of social mobility and shows how aspirant clergy went about fashioning a credible social and professional identity.By examining how would be clergymen were educated and professionally formed, the book shows that, alongside the well-known route through the universities, there was an alternative route via specialist grammar schools. Prospective ordinands might also seek out clerical tutors to help them to study for the academic parts of ordination exams and to prepare for the spiritual and pastoral aspects of their role. These alternative methods of ordination preparation were sometimes under the cognizance of bishops, and occasionally under their control, but they were generally authored by parish clergy and were small-scale, self-supporting, bottom-up solutions to the needs of upcoming generations of clergy. This book has much to interest historians of religion, culture, class and education, and illustrates how in-depth prosopographical study can offer fresh perspectives.SARA SLINN is Research Fellow at the School of History & Heritage, University of Lincoln Analysis Anglican Communion British History Church of England England English Bishops History of Education History of Religion Modern History Ordination Religion Schools Theological seminaries Theology University of Cambridge University of Oxford Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Sep 2017) Subject Church of England -- Clergy -- Training of -- History -- 18th century Church of England -- Clergy -- Training of -- History -- 19th century SUBJECT Church of England. fast (OCoLC)fst00532932 Subject HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General. Clergy -- Training of. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781787440074 1787440079 9781783271757 1783271752

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