Joseph Butler's 'Fifteen sermons' (1729) is a classic work of moral philosophy, which remains widely influential. The topics Butler discusses include the role of conscience in human nature, self-love and egoism, compassion, resentment and forgiveness, and love of our neighbour a…
Introduction -- Nineteenth-century precedents -- Outbreak of ecumenism -- The Roman Catholic Church -- False starts -- Anglican orders and Orthodox politics -- Jubilee, 1925 -- The Russian Student Christian Movement -- The prayer book crisis, 1927/1928 -- Lausanne, 1927 -- The f…
Why did the Wesleyan Methodists and the Anglican evangelicals divide during the middle of the eighteenth century? Many would argue that the division between them was based narrowly on theological matters, especially predestination and perfection. Ryan Danker suggests, however, t…
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