|
|
FDU PRESS
 |
| Scholarly Review |
 | Apostle to the Wilderness
ISBN# 0838640850
Reviewed by: Alan L. Hayes, Wycliffe College, Toronto School of Theology
Church History |
|  | |
John Medley (1804-92), an Anglican Bishop of Fredericton (a diocese coterminous with the province of New Brunswick, Canada), has sometimes been considered the "Tractarian patriarch," the first participant in the Oxford movement to become a bishop. In this book, Barry Craig, a professor at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, argues that Medley was too theologically diverse and too ecclesiastically pragmatic to be neatly categorized as a Tractarian. The author acknowledges that Medley resembled one before he became bishop in 1845.
Medley left about fifty published works, mainly sermons and addresses; most of his personal letters and papers have been lost. While Craig has mined the surviving material extensively and thoroughly, what distinguishes this book from previous studies of Medley is not the source material but the historiographical framework.
This book contains much useful information.
|
|
|
