Front Cover

Title page

Copyright Information

Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Precocious Prodigy

All Souls College, Oxford

Birkenhead

Advancing the Church Militant

The Oxford House, Bethnal Green

2. Endless Searching

Charles Gore (1853-1932) and Ordination

Vicar of Barking

Henson’s First Engagement with Disestablishment

The Hospital of St Mary and St Thomas of Canterbury, Ilford

3. Solid and Shifting Foundations

Intercommunion

Persecution and Prosecution

Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline

Personal, Parson and Parish

Henson and National Debate – Education, Marriage and Divorce

The Taint of Heresy

4. Battlefields

Welsh Disestablishment

5. Towards Transforming Church and State

Randall Davidson and the Church and State Commission

Church and State Report 1916

The ‘Life and Liberty’ Movement

Preferment for Henson

6. Bishop of Hereford

Consecration as Bishop

Proposals for Administrative Reform

7. A Bill Passed and an Ideal Destroyed

The Enabling Bill

William Temple

A Bill Passed and an Ideal Destroyed

8. Herbert Dunelm:

Auckland Castle

Frank Weston of Zanzibar

The Lambeth Conferences

Conference on Christian Politics, Economics and Citizenship, COPEC

Morality, Politics, and the Durham Miners

9. Pastoral Bishop

Preferment

Tutoring

Preaching

Patronage

10. Collisions of Church and State

Henson, New Bishoprics and the House of Lords

Prayer Book Revision

11. Disestablishment and Antagonisms

Cosmo Gordon Lang

Roman Catholicism

The Oxford Group Movement

The Limits of Toleration

12. Ominous Developments

Diocesan Administration and Shared Oversight

Deans of Durham

Edward VIII

George Bell of Chichester

Abyssinia

13. The Glory Departs

Bibliography

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