Dipping one's toe tentatively into the new world of Open Peer Review, a draft paper of mine on archbishop Michael Ramsey is now available for comment and criticism at the History Working Papers Project. The idea is that HWPP can re-create the interchange of a seminar online, with readers commenting on the paper as a whole and on individual paragraphs, with an opportunity for the author to respond, and post revised versions for subsequent rounds of review. More on the HWPP project is available here.
The paper examines the petitions that were made to Michael Ramsey,
archbishop of Canterbury, to call a national day of prayer. It considers
the grounds upon which the petitions was made, and the Church’s
official reactions to them. In doing so, it sheds light from an
unaccustomed angle onto attitudes towards petitionary prayer among some
of the British public, on understandings of the role of the archbishop
as leader of the nation’s religious life, and of the recent providential
history of the nation, particularly during the 1939-45 war.
Stations on the road to a non-liturgical time
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From time to time churches decide that their liturgies need to be revised.
Such revisions are rarely easy, since the religious life for many people
depends...
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