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Journal of Anglican Studies

ISSN 1740-3553

2 papers in the library · publishing 2018-2026

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“God of Holy Dreaming”: A Retrospective Appreciation of an Aboriginal Prayer and Spirituality in A Prayer Book for Australia

Journal of Anglican Studies March 31, 2026 Fergus J. King, Lenore Margaret Porter

Abstract 2025 sees the thirtieth anniversary of Revd Auntie Lenore Parker’s ‘God of Holy Dreaming’ being included in the Anglican Prayer Book for Australia. In this article, she explores and describes the dreaming process which birthed this prayer. The analysis which follows compares the value of dreams in aboriginal culture with the privileged place given to dreams and visions as altered...

Ethics and Mysticism: The Work of Kenneth E. Kirk and Some Other Modern Anglicans

Journal of Anglican Studies February 21, 2018 Jane Shaw

Abstract Kenneth E. Kirk is regarded as the person who revived moral theology in the Anglican tradition in the early to mid-twentieth century. This article argues that a renewal of interest in mysticism, led especially by W.R. Inge and Evelyn Underhill in the first two decades of the twentieth century, was influential upon Kirk’s outlook, especially his association of moral theology with...