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James requested a list of Anglican authors or literature. Here's my list:
(1.)Yes, obviously C.S.Lewis
(2.) The Middle Way: Voices of Anglicanism by Lee W. Gibbs
(3.) The Anglican Vision by James E. Griffiss
(4.)The Basics of the Faith by Mark A. Pearson
Fiction:
(5.)Jan Karon's Mitford series on a priest and his parish life
(6.) Madeline L'Engle- Author of "A Wrinkle in Time" (sci-fi fantasy)
Also Anglicans read "The Confessions of St. Augustine" & the early church Fathers
(7.) and of course "The Book of Common Prayer"
Many also read Roman Catholic authors, such as G.K.Chesterton.
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Here's some more good Anglican Authors:
(8) Michael Ramsey- former Arch Bishop
(9.) Richard Hooker
(10.) John Henry Newman
(11.) William Wilberforce- the abolitionist
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I didn't realise L'Engle was Anglican. I read and enjoyed her fantasies as a child. I do believe she has some New Age hints in her work, but it's great children's literature that takes children seriously. I've read and been moved by St. Augustine's Confessions.
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James
(last edited 04/01/2008 06:58AM)
04/01/2008 06:54AM
Cool. I read a Wrinkle in Time so long ago. I should pick it up again and see if it holds up. St. Augustine of course is the man...Erasmus too lol. I'll look up Mitford and see if I can get her books at the Library. Thanks for the list. If anyone else knows anymore fiction please put it up.
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Madeline L'Engle was an Episcopalian. She volunteered and served as writer in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NY, and received an honorary doctorate from the Episcopal seminary at Berkeley. Apparently her views aren't orthodox, but I haven't read any of her books except Wrinkle, and that years ago.
Other authors to include on a list: Dorothy L. Sayers was a great Christian apologist who also wrote the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery stories.
Mystery writer P. D. James is also a devout Anglican.
Then there's Susan Howatch's Starbridge series.
And Barbara Pym's books.
Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
For poets, there are George Herbert and John Donne.
For humor, Adrian Plass.
And of course, Thomas the Tank Engine. :D
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Sweet more authors! P.D. James is devout? Cool. I thought I saw some Christian references in the movie Children of Men. I thought maybe she was just influenced but not of the faith. I'm gonna go check her out now. Oh and I love donne and Herbert. Was Marvel a Christian too?
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John Donne and George Herbert are too of my favorite poets. Marvell was a Reverend and a lecturer at Holy Trinity Church. He had a Calvinist streak in him. Then you also have John Milton, on the Puritain side of Anglican.
Of course, most of your great English poets of the 17th, 18th, and 19th century are going to be Anglican by default, though a few are Catholic.
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Great lists! Thanks Poppy & Skylar. So many to choose from. I too love George Herbert's poetry. I'll have to look for John Donne. :D
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I like Donne better than Herbert, but he's more complex. Donne has two types of poems - the sex poems and the religious poems. Of the religious poems, he's most known for his Holy Sonnets. You may be familiar with, "Batter my heart, three personed God..." It's in most of the school anthologies, or at least it was when I was a kid. Perhaps no Christian poetry is allowed in public schools these days; I don't know.
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Or his equally well-known sonnet that begins "Death, be not proud."
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Has anyone heard of Helen Roseveare? I believe she was a missionary to the African Congo. I read her story , "Living Sacrifice," years ago and remember her as coming to know the Lord through reading the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.
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I've never heard of Helen Roseveare--I'll hae to check her out.
It occurs to me that what I thought of as garden-variety Anglophilia might actually be Anglicanphilia.
I do seem to gravitate towards books that feature vicars and little parish churches and jumble sales and harvest festivals and such (
Barbara Pym and
Dorothy Sayers come immediately to mind.)
(Pardon me while I play with GoodReads formatting!)
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Karen V.
(last edited 04/05/2008 11:22AM)
04/05/2008 11:21AM
Poppy, you've inspired me to add some Dorothy Sayers and Barbara Pym to my "to read" list. This sounds like nice summer reading for the porch swing. Ah, summer...
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I would add Robertson Davies (20th c. Canadian)
Henry Vaughan (17 C. Welsh -- if you like George Herbert)
Jeremy Taylor (chaplain to Charles I?)
William Law
Evelyn Underhill (for things mystical)
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I enjoy Vuaghn, though not as much as Herbert.
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Any thoughts on future books to discuss, following Chesterton? Looking for books we can easily access though our local libraries saves us money :)
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I don't know if this is easy, but I enjoyed Dinesh D'Sousa's What's So Great About Christianity, a response to recent atheist polemics. I think we mentioned The Cost of Discipleship earlier (Bonhoeffer).
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Hm-m-m, some good ones. I want to read:
Knowing God
The Pilgrim's Regress
Miracles
I'd like to reread "The great Divorce"
Also I like the idea of the earlier mentioned book, "The Cost of Discipleship," by Bonhoeffer
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Simply Christian is on my to-read list, so that would be my vote. I've never read anything by N.T. Wright, and would like to.
I've read all of the Lewis books already. Of those, I think The Great Divorce the most interesting.
I read a review of Crunchy Cons, and it seems mildly interesting, but, like a lot of those nonfiction political books, I suspect it will be a thesis best stated in ten pages.
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"Simply Christian" sounds good to me, too. I have "Surprised by Hope" (also by NT Wright) on reserve but it's still "on order."
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Simply Christian does sound interesting. I've never read N.T.Wright.
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Sounds like there's a lot of interest in
Simply Christian, so I'll start a new topic so we'll be ready to begin.
I'm away for the weekend and don't have it with me, but my husband can bring it. I look forward to an evening of reading tonight. (So many people look forward to the chance to go out--I look forward to the opportunity to stay in and read, read, read.)
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In ref to message 18, Anglican reading (just someFYI:
Borg, author of ,
The Heart of Christianity is a progressive. Theologically he does not hold to orthodoxy, as laid out in the creeds, and the teachings of the church for the first 2000 years.
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In ref to the Borg book, I may actually take a look at the book just to stay informed and know what the progressives believe.
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