Description:
This booklet focuses upon the history of stoles at ordination, based on new research. It appeals for a return to generous Anglican attitudes, where every ordinand is given freedom of choice over whether to wear a scarf or a stole.
Brief description: Andrew Atherstone is Latimer Research Fellow, at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and a member of Oxford University's Faculty of Theology and Religion. He has published widely on contemporary Anglicanism.
Review Quotes:
'This fascinating, well researched work should be recommended (compulsory?!) reading for all bishops, training incumbents and new clergy.' Rev Daniel Kirk, Vicar St Michael's Gidea Park