EVANGELICAL MISSION AND ANGLICAN CHURCH ORDER
Charles Simeon Reconsidered
By Andrew Atherstone. The Latimer Trust. 36 pages. £2.00
ISBN 978-0-946307-71-5
Charles Simeon, the Vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Cambridge in the early 19th century, was in many ways the founding father of the modern evangelical movement in the Church of England.
In this stimulating and well-researched booklet, first delivered as the St. Antholin’s Lecture for 2009, Andrew Atherstone examines Simeon’s attitude to Anglican church order and shows that the commonly repeated view that he always scrupulously obeyed bishops and canon law, and would urge his 21st-century successors to do the same, does not fit the facts.
