Tea or Eucharist?
Anthony Howard, 3 December 1992
The Faber Book of Church and Clergy
edited by A.N. Wilson.
Faber, 304 pp., £17.50, November 1992,0 571 16204 5 Show More
edited by A.N. Wilson.
Faber, 304 pp., £17.50, November 1992,
High and Mitred: A Study of Prime Ministers as Bishop-Makers 1837-1977
by Bernard Palmer.
SPCK, 350 pp., £20, October 1992,0 281 04594 1 Show More
by Bernard Palmer.
SPCK, 350 pp., £20, October 1992,
“... government, contemporary language into its services, the social gospel into its spiritual message. Peter Simple’s immortal creation, Dr Spacely-Trellis, the ‘go-ahead’ Bishop of Bevindon, personified the popular conception of the modern church leader – until real life played an unfair trick and produced Dr John Spong, the ultra-trendy Bishop of ... ”