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A Practical-Prophetic-Pastoral Exemplar: An Extended Homily on the Ministry and Writings of Percy Dearmer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2021

Martyn Percy
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Abstract

An extended homily or meditation that focuses on some aspects of the life and work of Percy Dearmer. Dearmer, in his pastoral attentiveness, irenic prophetic action, and practical Christianity, sought to continue a distinctive English Anglican tradition of faithfully fulfilling his vocation through a richly incarnational ministry.

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AnglicanismecclesiologyEnglish HymnalministryParson’s HandbookPercy Dearmer
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Research Article
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Journal of Anglican Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , May 2021 , pp. 37 - 47
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© The Journal of Anglican Studies Trust 2021

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References

2 Katie Palmer Heathman, ‘“Lift Up a Living Nation”: Community and Nation, Socialism and Religion in The English Hymnal, 1906’, Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society, 14.2 (2017), pp. 183-200.

3 Dearmer understood that this could be achieved in sublime worship, which was individually and socially transformative. For a recent discussion of this phenomena, see J.D. Riding, ‘Touching Mystery: The Book of Common Prayer as Liminal Space’, Faith and Worship, 84 (Lent 2019), pp. 36-46.

4 N. Healy, Church, World and the Christian Life: Practical-Prophetic Ecclesiology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 178.

5 Healy, Church, p. 185.

6 Nigel Biggar, ‘On Judgment, Repentance and Restoration’, a Sermon preached at Christ Church Cathedral, 5 March 2017, and quoted in Martyn Percy (ed.), Untamed Gospel: Protests, Poems, Prose (London: Canterbury Press, 2017).

7 See Una Kroll, Vocation to Resistance: Contemplation and Change (London: DLT, 1995); Ched Myers, Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1970); Gerald Arbuckle, Refounding the Church: Dissent for Leadership (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1993).

8 My own copy is a 1932 vintage, and is the twelfth edition of the volume. The book was still being published well into the 1960s.

9 Anthony Judge, A Man Apart: The British Policeman and his Job (London: Arthur Baker Publishing, 1972).

10 A. Russell, The Clerical Profession (London: SPCK, 1980).

11 Reginald Askew, Advisory Council for Church Ministry prayer card, Petertide, 1975.

12 John Robinson, The New Reformation (London: SCM Press, 1965), p. 27.

13 For a fuller discussion see Ian Tomlinson, Clergy, Culture and Ministry: The Dynamics of Roles and Relations in Church and Society (ed. M. Percy; London: SCM Press, 2017).

14 Tom Lynch, ‘Good Grief’, Christian Century, 26 July 2003, and cited in Martyn Percy, Clergy: The Origin of Species (London: Continuum, 2006), p. 188.

15 Cited in Tomlinson, Clergy, p. 174.

16 Dan Hardy, ‘Created and Redeemed Sociality’, in D. Hardy and C. Gunton (eds.), On Being the Church: Essays on the Christian Community (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1989), pp. 21-47 (33).

17 On this, see Paul Avis, ‘Polity and Polemics: The Function of Ecclesiastical Polity in Theology and Practice’, Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 18 (2016), pp. 2-13.

18 On this, see Martyn Percy, ‘The Household of Faith’, in P. Avis and Benjamin Guyer (eds.), The Lambeth Conference: Theology, History, Polity and Purpose (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), pp. 316-40.