An Anglo-Catholic visionary for modern America : Gordon Butler Wadhams and "the Way of Christ" / by Joseph F. Byrnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byrnes, Joseph F., 1939- author.

Contributor:

Charlton Yarnall Fund.

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wadhams, Gordon Butler 1904-1987.

Wadhams, Gordon Butler.

Catholic Church--Clergy--Biography.

Catholic Church.

Episcopal Church--Clergy--Biography.

Episcopal Church.

Anglo-Catholicism.

Catholic converts.

Priests.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

142 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

EUGENE : WIPF & STOCK PUBLISHERS, 2023.

Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock Publishers, [2023]

Summary:

"Anglo-Catholic" is not an abstract label for Father Gordon Butler Wadhams, the vibrant personality whose life is narrated and whose writings are anthologized here. In the Episcopal (Anglican) Church, Anglo-Catholicism attracts, repels, confuses, and has a variety of meanings that Wadhams sorted out across the years as an Episcopal and a Roman Catholic priest. Joseph F. Byrnes here presents and clarifies his writings on the church and ecumenism, the liturgy, the Bible, and Christian mission. The lifelong Anglo-Catholic vocation of Gordon Wadhams was marked by inspiring family experiences, enlivened by his own youthful experiments with churchgoing and focused by his friends and mentors, Episcopal and Catholic. His timeline cannot be our own, but it serves as a template for our own search to understand how the church is built up by ecumenism, how its liturgy develops by acculturation of timeless traditions, how it valorizes the biblical writings for each generation, and how it inspires the rejections of war, elimination of racism, and dedication to the intellectual and physical well-being of all. -- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

1. Traditional values and new vision: an introduction

2. Personal odyseey

3. The great church and ecumenism

4. Liturgy: tradition and acculturation

5. The Bible for everyone

6. Spiritual life and Christian mission

7. For modern America: a conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-142).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charlton Yarnall Fund.

Contains:

Container of: Wadhams, Gordon Butler, 1904-1987. Works. Selections. (Byrnes).

ISBN:

1666770426

9781666770421

9781666770438

1666770434

OCLC:

1379075131

Publisher Number:

99993946171