Word: anglicanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday evening in London's fashionable Knightsbridge neighborhood. Though pathetically tiny flocks of Londoners attend many Anglican services, Holy Trinity Brompton has a standing-room-only turnout of 1,500. Oblivious to the hot, airless sanctuary, the youthful throng buzzes with an anticipation more common at a rock concert or rugby match. After the usual Scripture readings, prayers and singing, the chairs are cleared away. Curate Nicky Gumbel prays that the Holy Spirit will come upon the congregation. Soon a woman begins laughing. Others gradually join her with hearty belly laughs. A young worshipper falls to the floor, hands twitching...
...This frenzied display has become known as the "laughing revival," or "Toronto blessing," from the city that has popularized it. Though similar to the emotional outbursts found in some U.S. Pentecostal and Charismatic circles, the paroxysms of laughter are new, particularly for straitlaced Anglicans. And they are catching on. After first appearing at Holy Trinity only last May, laughing revivals have been reported in Anglican parishes from Manchester to York to Brighton...
...whatever one wishes. Likewise, Byrd showed that it was possible to outstep the ostensible boundaries for plainsong writing by imbuing it with a passion (perhaps a bit cerebral by Romantic standards, but potent passion nevertheless) that stemmed from his religious frustration as a staunch Roman Catholic in Anglican England. Similarly, though Bach was "only" a Lutheran, his music resonates with passion that many of his interpreters and biographers sought to downplay or even negate, thinking it incongruous with the strict Baroque compositional forms...
...latest book is a novel, The Vicar of Sorrows (Norton; 391 pages; $23), about a lost Anglican clergyman. It represents the author's serious side, but the material is a bit balky. Handsome, remote Francis Kreer, vicar of St. Birinus, no longer believes in God or loves his wife. His troubling daughter Jessica means more to him, but not quite enough. Kreer's decline begins when his mother changes her will, leaving him about half what he expected. Suddenly he finds himself no longer competent to deal with petty parochial rifts. Before long he is besotted with a pretty young...
...staff have issued a strong public denunciation of homosexuality; privately they have warned bishops to guard against gay-rights laws. The congregation has also released a statement against genetic engineering. And Ratzinger was behind a critique that seems to have doomed prospects for a reunification of the Catholic and Anglican churches in the near future...