Reviews for Lollards And Protestants In The Diocese Of York, Vol. 10

The average rating for Lollards And Protestants In The Diocese Of York, Vol. 10 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-05-24 00:00:00 Shih-wen Chang A scholarly survey of music in the parish churches since the Reformation up to current times. Although the emphasis is on music, one can't help learning some social church history along the way, which increases the book's usefulness. One learns that the hymns and Anglican chant that seem to have been around forever are actually rather recent innovations. One thing this book does is take away any desire to take a time machine back to visit any of these parish churches and hear the way people sang there. A accompanying volume contains musical examples referred to in this volume.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-11-19 00:00:00 Angelique Long This is more of a polemical tract against the Church of England by somebody who rage quit, rather than an objective study seeking truth. It is part of a cottage industry of writings which claims that if only the Church of England had even more homosexuality within it, then the general public would be suddenly lining up down the street to take their seats in the pews again. This despite the fact that there is no evidence that homosexuality is actually popular in England, rather than being politely tolerated, nor that it has anything at all to do with why the average English man and woman do not attend Church anymore. We're shown a struggle between two quite ugly elements "liberals" and "evangelicals", while completely ignoring what the general public like about the Church; a sense of national tradition, community, continuity, place, Englishness, the Laudian High Church aesthetics, charming choral evensong, the lack of fanaticism (whether "liberal"-bolshevik or judeo-"evangelical").