Episcopacy, Authority, and Gender: Aspects of Religious Leadership in Europe, 1100–2000

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Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

List of Contributors

1: Introduction

PART 1: Episcopacy

2: Canonical Anarchy and Failing Deans as Reflected in Episcopal Visitation Records of Netherlandish Collegiate Churches from the 1570s

3: Episcopal Leadership and Parochial Life: Two Case Studies

4: Episcopal Leadership of the Church in Victorian London: A Review of the Visitation Charges delivered to their Clergy by Bishops of London c. 1830–1900

5: Ecumenical Leadership in the Church of England: The Role of Bishop John Wordsworth

6: Renewal of Religious Leadership According to an Ancient Model: Bishop Joseph Hubert Reinkens and Bishop Martin of Tours

PART 2: Organization and Charisma

7: Creating a Model of Religious Leadership: The Vita of Gilbert of Sempringham

8: Authority and Obedience in the Early Franciscan Order

9: Pastoral Revolutionaries? Parish Clergy and Religious Leadership in Late Medieval England

10: Religious Leadership and English Dissent after the Glorious Revolution: The Role of the Rev. Dr Daniel Williams (ca. 1643-1715/16)

11: Edward Irving’s Hybrid: Towards a Nineteenth-Century Apostolic and Presbyterian Pentecostalism

12: Chairman as Leader: P.T. Forsyth in 1905

PART 3: Gender and Laity

13: Concepts of Female Leadership from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century. From Hildegard of Bingen to Joan of Arc

14: Catholicism, Gender, and Volcanic Leadership: Controversies around the Grail Movement in the Netherlands, 1920s–1930s

15: Clerical Authority and Prophetic Alternatives: Changing Appreciations of Religious Leadership among the Dutch Dominicans during the Twentieth Century

Index