Colonial Church Histories The Church In The West Indies

Author : Alfred Caldecott
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ISBN 13 : 9781331841920
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Church in the West Indies (Classic Reprint) written by Alfred Caldecott and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Church in the West Indies The fact that the British West Indies include eight groups of Colonies, which are politically quite separate, and have come into the empire at different times and in various ways, made it worth considering whether the plan of this book should not be to give a separate account of each Colony or group. But behind their differences there are certain common features which give them a partial unity, and after deliberation it seemed better to make this a history of the Church in the islands as a whole, with glimpses from time to time at the individual Colonies. The primacy of Jamaica has necessarily given to that Colony the most frequent mention, but it is as typical to some extent of them all that it has been taken. I have endeavoured to show the connection of the stream of Church history here with the general history of the Church of England on the one hand, and with v, the social life of the Colonies on the other. Of materials for history there was abundance: able men have written histories of many of these Colonies; and for recent years journals and reports of Synods and other Church literature have been available. My thanks are due to the secretaries of many Societies, - both Church and Nonconformist; and the libraries of the Church House and the Royal Colonial Institute have been invaluable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.