This Week's Acquisitions
- Eliza F. Pollard, Avice: A Story of Imperial Rome (London: S. W. Partridge, n.d.). An "early Church" tale.
- J. C. Ryle, Evangelical Religion: What It Is, and What It Is Not (W. Hunt, 1867). Attempts a five-point summary definition of what constitutes evangelicalism. Ryle still has a following, so a lot of his work is available online; see, for example, The Anglican Library.
- John F. Russell, Obedience to the Church in Things Ritual: Two Sermons Preached in St. James' Church, Enfield Highway (James Burns, 1842). High Church sermons.
- George Raymond Portal, On Some of the Prevalent Objections to Ritual Observances: A Sermon Preached in S. Barnabas' Church, Pimlico, on the Second Sunday after Easter (J. T. Hayes, 1854). Another High Church sermon, defending the "Ritualist" position.
- Joseph Jones, An Essay on Episcopacy (Hatchard, 1839). Pamphlet in defense of the Church of England.
- Francis Hutcheson, Logic, Metaphysics, And the Natural Sociability of Mankind (Liberty Fund, 2006). Lectures translated from the Latin. There's a profile of Hutcheson and various e-texts here.
- Michael Wheeler, The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Culture (Cambridge, 2005). Historical and theological debates.
- David Gilmour, The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj (FSG, 2006). Everyday working lives of Civil Service members and their families.