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.