Books written by Phillip Tovey

  • Anglican Confirmation: 1662-1820

    18 William Jacobson, Fragmentary Illustrations of the History of the Book of Common Prayer, from Manuscript Sources [of] Bishop Sanderson and Bishop Wren. (London, 1874). 19 Jeremy Taylor, A collection of offices or forms of prayer ...

  • Anglican Confirmation: 1662-1820

    34Annesley and Hoskin, Archbishop Drummond's Visitation Returns, 1764. Vol. 2, Yorkshire H–R, p. 39. 35 Ibid., p. 61. 36 Jago and Royle, The Eighteenth-Century Church in Yorkshire. 37 Ibid., p. 33. 38 Ibid., p. 34.

  • The Theory and Practice of Extended Communion

    Lay Presidency The process of approving Extended Communion in the Church of England also included an integral debate about lay presidency at the Eucharist. The latter may seem like a novel suggestion within Anglicanism; however, ...

  • Anglican Baptismal Liturgies

    The previous volumes in the series are: E.C. Whittaker, Documents of the Baptismal Liturgy, 3rd edition edited by Maxwell E. Johnson, (London: SPCK 1960 and 2003); J.D.C. Fischer, Christian Initiation: The Reformation Period, ...

  • Of Water and the Spirit: Baptism and Mission in the Christian tradition

    It proposed a new canon which would allow the incumbent and PCC to vote for the parish to admit children to communion. Unfortunately this canon has never been produced. The Board of Education report Children in the Way (1988) encouraged ...

  • Anglican Baptismal Liturgies

    ... in 1984 had asked Provinces to consider and study the issue of admitting children to Communion prior to confirmation. By 1987 a number of Provinces had begun the admission of baptized children, including Australia, Brazil, Liberia, ...

  • Re-visioning Confirmation for Mission and Discipleship

    The practice of confirmation has changed over time, particularly when communion has become more regular, with the admission of children to communion before confirmation, and with more people more often coming to faith and being baptized as ...