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Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi: Colenso Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Thughie Jones
Thughie Jones
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Archdeacon Emeritus
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This paper had its origin in an excursus to the dissertation offered in part requirement for the University of Wales LLM degree in Ecclesiastical and Canon Law. Like all work on Colenso, it is indebted to the magisterial investigations of the late Peter Hinchliff, in whose biography of Colenso will be found an extensive bibliography to 1964. Later sources are itemised in this paper.

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Research Article
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 24 , January 1999 , pp. 188 - 195
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 1999

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