Fling Out the Banner! The National Church Ideal and the Foreign Mission of the Episcopal Church

From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Fling Out the Banner! The National Church Ideal and the Foreign Mission of the Episcopal Church. By Ian T. Douglas. New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1996. vii + 341 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

The thirteenth Lambeth Conference that assembled in Canterbury last year brought together 740 bishops of the Anglican Communion. For the first time since the conference began in 1867 a majority of the bishops were from outside the West, with nearly a third coming from Africa and composing the single largest continental delegation.

To the pride of all in attendance Lambeth 1998 displayed colorfully the ...

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