1966-1970 An Ecclesiastical History of England Series The Victorian Church

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First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, With Dustwrapper

William Owen Chadwick was a British Anglican priest and leading academic, writing predominantly on the history of Christianity. Indeed, Chadwick wrote about such issues as the formation of the papacy in the modern world; about Lord Acton; about the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century; about the Church of England in the United Kingdom elsewhere, and about the secularisation of European thought and culture. He is often described "one of the great religious historians of our time", and his work is commonly praised for its crisp and vivid style that brought greater clarity to (and understanding of) numerous events and people, 'imposing on them a moral ambiguity where in reality there may have been only moral evasiveness'. This text, 'The Victorian Church' is a magisterial survey of both the politics and the daily experience of religion during the Victorian period, yet also provides an understanding of the background of many of the problems which the Church faces today. Both volumes of this set are first editions, with Part I being published in 1966, and Part II published in 1970. Complete with original unclipped dustwrapper.