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History of the Sisters of Bethany

This page has been created to assist people wishing to find out more from published books concerning the History of the Society of the Sisters of Bethany.

TITLES AND INFORMATION RE BOOKS
REFERRING TO THE SOCIETY OF THE SISTERS OF BETHANY

"Stolen Daughters, Virgin Mothers" Susan Mumm
Leicester University Press 1999
(Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian Britain) ISBN 0-7185-0151-9

“Dictionary of Religious Orders” Peter Day Burns & Oates 2001
ISBN 0 800 12314 6

"THE CALL OF THE CLOISTER" Peter F Anson SPCK 1955
[Religious Communities and kindred bodies in the Anglican Communion] p.410 [cf P.405-412]

“Apostles of Love” Cyril Moxley 1991
[Lives of 4 people, including Etheldreda Anna Benett]

“The Religious Communities of the Church of England” Allan T Cameron Faith Press 1918 p.88-91

“Anglican Religious Communities Year Book 2006/7” Fifth Edition
Canterbury Press, Norwich ISBN: 1-85311-654-8 Published: August 2005
www.orders.anglican.org/arcyb/

“Guide to the Religious Communities of the Anglican Communion” Mowbrays 1951

“The Church of the East and The Church of England - A History of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Assyrian Mission” J F Coakley Clarendon Press Oxford 1992 ISBN 0-19-826744-4

“Kurds and Christians” Rev F M Heazell & Mrs Margoliouth 1913
Wells Gardner, Darton & Co [SSB: p.29, 54-61, 86-91,105,139,192]

“Historical Records of the Church of the Province of South Africa” Cecil Lewis and G E Edwards
SPCK 1934 [SSB: p.142]

The Retreat Association, The Central Hall, 256 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3UH
www.retreats.org.uk/

"SIR NINIAN COMPER - The Last Gothic Revivalist" Anthony Symondson
[The Life and Work of Sir Ninian Comper 1964-1960]
Royal Institute of British Architects, Heinz Gallery, Portman Square,
Brochure designed and produced by Blueprint magazine, 20 January - 27 February 1988
Printed by Cheney and Sons Ltd, Banbury, Oxon
[see Bibliography in the back of this publication - and on web-page]

 

New Publications:
"Sir Ninian Comper - An Introduction to his life and work with complete gazetteer"
Anthony Symondson SJ and Stephen Arthur Bucknall Spire Books & the Ecclesiological Society
ISBN 1-904965-11-3

“Anglican Church Embroidery - The Collaboration between John Ninian Comper and the Sisters of Bethany, 1885 to 1930” Beryl Moss [Bolton Institute/Manchester Metropolitan University]
Dissertation presented in part fulfilment of the MA History of Art and Design October 1997
[see Bibliography in the back of this publication - and on web-page]

"Beginners Guide to Goldwork" Ruth ChamberlinSearch Press
ISBN-10:0-85532-954-8 [See pages 10/11]

"Anglican Papalism - an illustrated history 1900-1960" Michael Yelton Canterbury Press
ISBN 978 1 85311 861 6 2005
SSB is described as an established order for women which did not identify itself with Roman devotions as thoroughly as some other communities, but remained committed to the unity of the Church, always saying prayers for that object.

 

 

Christianity in Iraq” Suha Rassam Published by Gracewing ISBN: 0 85244 633 0
Page: 119

Also of interest with the Assyrian Church:
"Assyrian Church Customs & the Murder of Mar Shimun"
by Surma d'Bait Mar Shimun 1983 Mar Shimun Memorial Fund
ISBN 0-931428-02-5

Light from the East: A Symposium on the Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian Churches” compiled by the Right Reverend Henry Hill, published by the Anglican Book Centre, Toronto, Canada ISBN: 0-919891-90-X Page: 116

"Surma l'Assyro-Chaldéenne (1883-1975) Dans la toumente de Mésopotamie" Claire Weibel Yacoub
Published: L'Harmattan, Paris 2007 ISBN: 978-2-296-02926-2 See Index for Page numbers of SSB


HISTORIES OF OTHER COMMUNITIES, WITH REFERENCES TO SISTERS OF BETHANY

Corn of Wheat - the life and history of the Community of St Francis” Mother Elizabeth CSF
Becket Publications Oxford 1981 [From ‘xiii’ onwards]

A Woman of Unity - Mother Lurana of Graymoor” Sister Mary Celine SA
Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement, Graymoor, New York 1956 [From 19ff; 35ff]

All Saints: Birth and Growth of a Community” Peter Mayhew
Parchment (Oxford) ltd Jan 1993 [see Index: Etheldreda Benett/Sisters of Bethany]

The Community of the Holy Family 1898-1958 - The First 60 Years” [p. 3, 7/8]

 

OTHER BOOKS CONCERNING THE RELIGIOUS LIFE

Unveiled - Nuns Talking” Mary Louden Chatto & Windus 1992

New Habits - Today’s Women who choose to become Nuns” Isabel Losada Hodder & Stoughton 1999

Against All Reason” Geoffrey Moorhouse 1969
Weidenfeld & Nicolson SBN 297 17679X

Consider your Call - A Theology of Monastic Life Today” SPCK 1978 Daniel Rees and others
ISBN 0 281 03609 8

 

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