Books, Arts & Manners: The Church (Very) Militant

Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism, by John Shelton Reed (Vanderbilt, 357 pp., $34.95)

A BYSTANDER observing the tumult within the Anglican Communion these days might be forgiven for coming away with the impression that everything had gone along serenely (if the people he is listening to are traditionalists) or stultifyingly (if they are modernists) from 1662 to about 1960.

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Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism, by John Shelton Reed (Vanderbilt, 357 pp., $34.95)

A BYSTANDER observing the tumult within the Anglican Communion these days might be forgiven for coming away with the impression that everything had gone along serenely (if the people he is listening to are traditionalists) or stultifyingly (if they are modernists) from 1662 to about 1960.