A Field Guide to the English Clergy - by The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b><i>The Archbishop of York's behaviour was "never that expected of a cleric, rarely that expected of a pirate..."</b></i><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>'Ridiculously enjoyable' </b>Tom Holland <p/>A<b> Book of the Year </b>for <b><i>The Times</i>, <i>Mail on Sunday </i></b>and <b><i>BBC History Magazine</i></b> <p/>The 'Mermaid of Morwenstow' excommunicated a cat for mousing on a Sunday. When he was late for a service, Bishop Lancelot Fleming commandeered a Navy helicopter. 'Mad Jack' swapped his surplice for leopard skin and insisted on being carried around in a coffin. And then there was the man who, like Noah's evil twin, tried to eat one of each of God's creatures... <p/>In spite of all this they saw the church as their true calling. These portraits reveal the Anglican church in all its colourful madness.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'Some of the most riotous misbehaviour in Church of England history is chronicled in this sprightly book.'-- "Daily Mail"<br><br>'Fabulously enjoyable compendium of the Anglican Church's most eccentric ministers - who prove to be very eccentric indeed.'--Reader's Digest<br><br>'Eye-popping tales of lunacy, debauchery and depravity...Butler-Gallie has done a splendid job presenting a smorgasbord of most peculiar parsons.'-- "Sebastian Shakespeare, Daily Mail"<br><br>'A delightful, sympathetic, humorous and earthed cocktail of quirky English clergy.'--The Rt Revd David Wilbourne<br><br>'This is a ridiculously enjoyable book: funny, compassionate, and wonderfully well-written.'--Tom Holland<br><br>'A humorous compendium of some of the oddball clergy who have served the Church over the centuries...These thumbnail portraits reveal a very broad church indeed.'-- "New Statesman"<br><br>'Entertainingly erudite...But it is also a surprisingly profound work...For all its mischief, Butler-Gallie's work of lightly worn erudition is a paean to a great English institution, finely tuned to the temper of its representatives, good, bad and indifferent. We should treasure it more.'-- "Literary Review"<br><br>'It may have the makings of a modern classic...Butler-Gallie chronicles not just Anglican follies, but also human weaknesses which we all share and with which we can perhaps sympathise.'-- "The Catholic Herald"<br><br>'One of the best Christmas books of the past few years... both hilarious and unusually elegant in conception and execution.'-- "Marcus Berkmann, Spectator"<br><br>'The Church of England has produced some real oddballs in its time, and this is an entertaining gallop through several centuries' worth of them...Butler-Gallie has done his homework, digging out some rare gems...This is the story not just of eccentrics, but also of a leisured age that is no more.'-- "Harry Mount, Spectator"<br><br>'We have...always kept a special haven for oddballs in the Church of England, as Fergus Butler-Gallie demonstrates in this entertaining compendium...Their foibles cover all bases from absentmindedness to epic drunkenness...I'm glad I read this one. It's a lot of fun.'-- "The Times"<br><br>'Wonderfully entertaining...A hilarious yet thoughtful reminder that the Christian faith wasn't always thought incompatible with a sense of humour or a healthy bolshiness.'-- "Sunday Times"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>The Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie</b> is a young curate in the Church of England who once accidentally appeared on <i>Only Connect</i>. He holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Oxford and a bachelor's degree in theology from the University of Cambridge. He is (according to his own taxonomy) a Bon Viveur first and foremost, with a soupçon of Roguishness and Prodigality. This is his first book.
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