- Edward Norman
Dr. Edward Norman (born
22 November 1938 ) was Canon Chancellor ofYork Minster and is anecclesiastical historian .Norman lectured in history at the
University of Cambridge ; he is an emeritus Fellow ofPeterhouse, Cambridge , [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/the_hitch/article584702.ece Memorial services - Times Online ] ] and was Dean of Peterhouse for seventeen years and Dean and Chaplain at Christ Church College, Canterbury and Professor of History at theUniversity of York . He is a member of thePeterhouse school of history . Norman was theBBC Reith Lecturer in 1978, discussing the relationship between religion and politics.Margaret Thatcher once invited him toChequers , although Norman insists he is not a Thatcherite and says he is 'appalled by the results of nakedcapitalism '.He has left the
Church of England and has converted to theRoman Catholic Church , although he claims these two actions are independent of each other.He has been involved with the
Conservative Philosophy Group and has written for theSalisbury Review .Books
*"The Catholic Church and Ireland" (1965).
*"The Conscience of the State in North America" (1968).
*"Anti-Catholicism in Victorian England" (1968).
*"The Early Development of Irish Society" (1969).
*"A History of Modern Ireland" (1971).
*"Church and Society in Modern England" (1976).
*'Christianity and Politics' inMaurice Cowling (ed.), "Conservative Essays" (Cassell, 1978), pp. 69-81.
*"Christianity and the World Order" (1979).
*"Christianity in the Southern Hemisphere" (1981).
*"The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century" (1983).
*"Roman Catholicism in England" (1985).
*"The Victorian Christian Socialists" (1987).
*"Entering the Darkness: Christianity and its modern substitutes" (1991).
*"An Anglican Catechism" (2001).
*"Out of the Depths" (2001).
*"Secularisation" (2002).
*"Anglican Difficulties" (2004).
*"The Mercy of God's Humility" (2004).
*"The Roman Catholic Church" (2006).
*"Secularisation, and The House of God: Church Architecture, Style and History" (1990)References
External links
* [http://justus.anglican.org/resources/misc/norman98.html The speech he gave at the Lambeth Conference of 1998]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2004%2F02%2F24%2Fbavic24.xml 'Anglicanism is going to tip into the sea']
* [http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article2424425.ece 'The Roman Catholic Church by Edward Norman - Book Review by Michael Arditti in the UK's Indpedendent, April 2007']
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