The Cathedral Library has been working with Professor Norman Doe, Director of the Centre of Law and Religion, Cardiff University, and Cambridge University Press to facilitate discussion on a new book edited by Norman Doe: A New History of the Church in Wales. Governance and Ministry, Theology and Society.
Norman Doe delivered the Annual Lecture of the Friends of St Davids Cathedral on 12th September 2020. It is available on the Cathedral YouTube Channel.
See below for a list of contents.
Contents
Foreword
Bishop Andrew John and Bishop June Osborne
Introduction
Norman Doe
Part I - Historical Antecedents and Overview of the Century
- The Age of Saints to the Victorian Church
Roger L. Brown - The Road to Disestablishment
Jeffrey Gainer - A Century of Christianity in Wales
D. Densil Morgan - The Church in Wales across the Century
William Price
Part II - Governance and Ministry
- The Constitition of the Church
Norman Doe - The Bishops and Archbishops
Arthur Edwards - The Clergy: Priests and Deacons
Barry Morgan - The Laity and Patterns of Ministry
Rhiannon Johnson
Part III - Doctrine, Liturgy, Rites and Other Faith Communities
- The Doctrine of the Church
Peter Sedgwick - The Liturgy of the Church
Gregory K. Cameron - The Rites of Passage
Charlotte Wright - The Church and other Communities of Faith
Ainsley Griffiths
Part IV - The Church and Society
- Welsh Anglicans and Cultural Debate
Rowan Williams - The Church and Education
Rosalind Williams - The Church and the Welsh Language
Enid R. Morgan - The Church, State and Society
Joanna Penberthy
Part V - Conclusions
- The Image of the Church
Mary Stallard - The Church of the Future
John Davies