Anglican Devotion by C.J. Stranks - 1961: Studies in the Spiritual Life of the Church of England between the Reformation and the Oxford Movement

This book is in very good condition. There is no wear on the front, back, and spine of the cover boards and no wear on the edges. There is no bumping on the corners. The previous owners name is written on the front end page. The rest of the pages are clean of any markings.

"The Church of England has a rich devotional literature in which the various need of the soul are met by teachers with different experience and different emphasis but who are, none the less, unite by a common tradition. Its value for the present is beyond question; for the past, it not only indicates the kind of spiritual training which underlay the outward observances of religion, but provides if not a history of those ideas which determined the day to day conduct of each man with his neighbor. the obvious purpose of those who wrote these books was to escalate and direct the deepest thoughts and feelings of all whom they could persuade to accept their guidance. It was their aim to make the conscience swift to discern between right and wrong and to make the will obedient to the conscience. It is to the conscience in the lat resort that all great movements of history appeal. Changes in social attitudes reflect changes which have already taken place in the moral standards of the people. And so the study of the classical works of English devotion may be of value not only to those who are interested strictly in religious affairs, but to all those who would understand the wide and deep currents of the nation's life...." - Preface from Anglican Devotion: Studies in the Spiritual Life of the Church of England between the Reformation and the Oxford Movement