Clyde Binfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 5367247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clyde Binfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clyde |
| FAMILY NAME | Binfield |
| SIGNATURE | BINFIELD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Baptists in Sacred Space? Worship, Buildings, and Belonging
An exploration, with particular reference to one Yorkshire chapel and families associated with it, of Baptists’ need for buildings to fit their worship, fellowship, and polity. The first section introduces theme, builders, architects, benefactors, noting James Cubitt and Thomas Harwood Pattison, men sensitive to aesthetics. The second outlines the development of Wainsgate. The third is about ‘belonging’. Family connections are explored, including…
From Necrology to Eulogy? A Preacher memorializes his Father-in-Law
Whether death is a passage or a terminus, an obituary can be an important accompaniment for the survivors. Victorian funerals were improved by sermons setting the deceased in the eye of eternity. Today's funerals prefer eulogies. The Congregational City Temple's Joseph Parker (1830–1902) was second only to the Baptist Metropolitan Tabernacle's Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–92) in popular estimation. Parker's father-in-law, Andrew Common (1815–96)…
Jerusalem's Empire State? The Context and Symbolism of a Twentieth-Century Building
My theme is religious encounter in the crucible of three faiths. Its focus is a building and its impact. The encounter as yet has no conclusion. The faiths are Christianity, Islam and Judaism. The building is one of two belonging to the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) now in Jerusalem. It expresses the personalities who shaped it and the events which surrounded it. It is an essay in imperial Christian mission, inter-faith dialogue and th…
Why Spencer Perceval had to die
This book’s title is unhistorical; we all have to die, even Spencer Perceval, least known of Prime Ministers. It allows, however, for an element of mystery, although there has never been much myste
Breadth from Dissent
Attitudes change. They broaden as well as contract. They reflect the permeation of dissenting ideas in apparently settled communities and the assimilation of conventionally accepted ideas by dissenters. The process is transformative. Literature is a prime medium for the transmission of ideas. It shapes attitudes. What, then, of the role of popular literature, especially fiction, in shaping the attitudes, especially the religious attitudes, of a r…
A Saint if ever there was One’
A ‘saint if ever there was one, but who might have been a little more effective had there been in his nature some slight traces of the old Adam’. Thus William Hardy Harwood (1856—1924) reflecting on a past member of Sub Rosa , a long-established essay club for Congregational ministers in Greater London. Harwood could only have known this particular saint for four years and perhaps his recollection is best seen as a businesslike minister’s snapsho…
The Shaping of a Dissenting Interest
The Bolton Prelude to Port Sunlight
Christ Church United Reformed Church (formerly Congregational), Port Sunlight, and St George’s United Reformed Church (formerly Congregational), Thornton Hough, do not spring to mind as Free Church buildings. There is scarcely one architectural respect in which either announces a Dissenting presence. Each conforms to nationally established tradition. Their quality, however, is as incontestable as it is incontestably derivative. Their role in thei…
Architecture and History
I like to hear a girl in the elementary school beginning her sentences with the words ‘I wonder why!’. There is all hope for a girl who wonders: ‘I wonder why the arches in this old church are some of them round and some of them pointed?’ You are getting ready to begin your study of English history
Sir Makepeace Watermaster and the March of Christian People
An artisan of Christian Unity’
I have always most earnestly desired that Christians should meet in Associations, such as will meet on Thursday, with this conviction, that their common Christianity ought to form a bond far more powerful to unite them to their one Lord, and Master, and Head, and in brotherhood one to another, than that their conscientious differences of opinion should form cause or excuse for hostile separation. I am glad to know that some of my brethren in the …
Amazing Grace
Journal Article Amazing Grace: Evangelicalism in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States. Ed. by George A. Rawlyk and Mark A. Noll. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. 429 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-7735-1207-1. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-7735-1214-4.) Get access Clyde Binfield Clyde Binfield University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American H…
The Purley Way for Children
The Sunday school was an art form. Its classical age has been explored by T. W. Laqueur and its totality by P. B. Cliff. Like those of great art, its creative moments were the simultaneous issue of evolution, system, and individual genius. Those moments were intensest in their Nonconformist aspect, for Nonconformists, though often thwarted, were born educationists. Their buildings reflected this: theological colleges, for instance, which grew fro…
A Chapel and its Architect
Anonconformist church is a place for drama, not mime or magic. It is a place for the production of the Word; for communication and for decision; for encounter, therefore, and crisis. It is a place for salvation. Its sole purpose is to promote the crisis of salvation and sustain its outworking in worship. When the question which must be asked of any building is asked of such a building—‘Does it work?’—what is really asked is: ‘How effectively does…
Principal When Pastor
What marks a minister? Such a one, for example, as this, formed within Scottish Congregationalism but formative for and proved by English Congregationalism. Born 1848, died 1921. Born under Russell, died under Lloyd George. Or, from Palmerston to Asquith with Gladstone as the longest fact of political life. Born Aberdeen, died Hampstead. Born a postman’s son, died a college principal, lives a theologian. Formed educationally by Aberdeen, London a…
Freedom through Discipline
Methodism ... left a stigma on the mind of the eighteenth-century poor whilst helping at the same time to smother the growth of a working-class consciousness. Its doctrines perverted all that was healthy in men’s emotions, its creed was cruel and grim, its view of life bleak and joyless. Its place in society closely resembled that of a malignant tumour. Thus a Sheffield undergraduate essayist, year of 1983. The essayist was Methodist bred. For hi…
Et Virtutem Et Musas
‘It is the duty of every Christian man to regard his religion as the Expeditionary Force of his soul’. In the autumn of 1950 W. H. Balgarnie, a retired public school-master, was asked to reminisce about his early days in the profession. Balgarnie’s boys certainly remembered him, ‘very young-looking for his age, so much so that on one occasion we were rejoiced by a parent approaching him on the touch-line of the football field and saying: “Can you…
English free churchmen and a national style
We are building a Church’, wrote Ernest Barson, minister of Penge congregational church in 1911, ‘. . to welcome to worship and service men and women . . . of real faith, such as we often meet in our homes, in business, in social service, but for whom room and freedom have not always been found in the Churches . .’ A year later he opened his church. A minister from Purley spoke on the church and the businessman, and one from Brixton spoke on wors…
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access CLYDE BINFIELD CLYDE BINFIELD University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIII, Issue CCCLXVII, April 1978, Pages 457-a–457, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIII.CCCLXVII.457-a Published: 01 April 1978
Short Notices
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access CLYDE BINFIELD CLYDE BINFIELD University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVII, Issue CCCXLV, October 1972, Pages 885–886, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLV.885 Published: 01 October 1972
Temperance and the Cause of God
Amazing Grace
Journal Article Amazing Grace: Evangelicalism in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States. Ed. by George A. Rawlyk and Mark A. Noll. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. 429 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-7735-1207-1. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-7735-1214-4.) Get access Clyde Binfield Clyde Binfield University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American H…
The Bolton Prelude to Port Sunlight
Christ Church United Reformed Church (formerly Congregational), Port Sunlight, and St George’s United Reformed Church (formerly Congregational), Thornton Hough, do not spring to mind as Free Church buildings. There is scarcely one architectural respect in which either announces a Dissenting presence. Each conforms to nationally established tradition. Their quality, however, is as incontestable as it is incontestably derivative. Their role in thei…
The Purley Way for Children
The Sunday school was an art form. Its classical age has been explored by T. W. Laqueur and its totality by P. B. Cliff. Like those of great art, its creative moments were the simultaneous issue of evolution, system, and individual genius. Those moments were intensest in their Nonconformist aspect, for Nonconformists, though often thwarted, were born educationists. Their buildings reflected this: theological colleges, for instance, which grew fro…
Temperance and the Cause of God
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access CLYDE BINFIELD CLYDE BINFIELD University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVII, Issue CCCXLV, October 1972, Pages 885–886, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLV.885 Published: 01 October 1972
Temperance and the Cause of God
Short Notices
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access CLYDE BINFIELD CLYDE BINFIELD University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIII, Issue CCCLXVII, April 1978, Pages 457-a–457, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIII.CCCLXVII.457-a Published: 01 April 1978
English free churchmen and a national style
We are building a Church’, wrote Ernest Barson, minister of Penge congregational church in 1911, ‘. . to welcome to worship and service men and women . . . of real faith, such as we often meet in our homes, in business, in social service, but for whom room and freedom have not always been found in the Churches . .’ A year later he opened his church. A minister from Purley spoke on the church and the businessman, and one from Brixton spoke on wors…
Et Virtutem Et Musas
‘It is the duty of every Christian man to regard his religion as the Expeditionary Force of his soul’. In the autumn of 1950 W. H. Balgarnie, a retired public school-master, was asked to reminisce about his early days in the profession. Balgarnie’s boys certainly remembered him, ‘very young-looking for his age, so much so that on one occasion we were rejoiced by a parent approaching him on the touch-line of the football field and saying: “Can you…
Freedom through Discipline
Methodism ... left a stigma on the mind of the eighteenth-century poor whilst helping at the same time to smother the growth of a working-class consciousness. Its doctrines perverted all that was healthy in men’s emotions, its creed was cruel and grim, its view of life bleak and joyless. Its place in society closely resembled that of a malignant tumour. Thus a Sheffield undergraduate essayist, year of 1983. The essayist was Methodist bred. For hi…
Principal When Pastor
What marks a minister? Such a one, for example, as this, formed within Scottish Congregationalism but formative for and proved by English Congregationalism. Born 1848, died 1921. Born under Russell, died under Lloyd George. Or, from Palmerston to Asquith with Gladstone as the longest fact of political life. Born Aberdeen, died Hampstead. Born a postman’s son, died a college principal, lives a theologian. Formed educationally by Aberdeen, London a…
A Chapel and its Architect
Anonconformist church is a place for drama, not mime or magic. It is a place for the production of the Word; for communication and for decision; for encounter, therefore, and crisis. It is a place for salvation. Its sole purpose is to promote the crisis of salvation and sustain its outworking in worship. When the question which must be asked of any building is asked of such a building—‘Does it work?’—what is really asked is: ‘How effectively does…
The Purley Way for Children
The Sunday school was an art form. Its classical age has been explored by T. W. Laqueur and its totality by P. B. Cliff. Like those of great art, its creative moments were the simultaneous issue of evolution, system, and individual genius. Those moments were intensest in their Nonconformist aspect, for Nonconformists, though often thwarted, were born educationists. Their buildings reflected this: theological colleges, for instance, which grew fro…
An artisan of Christian Unity’
I have always most earnestly desired that Christians should meet in Associations, such as will meet on Thursday, with this conviction, that their common Christianity ought to form a bond far more powerful to unite them to their one Lord, and Master, and Head, and in brotherhood one to another, than that their conscientious differences of opinion should form cause or excuse for hostile separation. I am glad to know that some of my brethren in the …
Amazing Grace
Journal Article Amazing Grace: Evangelicalism in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States. Ed. by George A. Rawlyk and Mark A. Noll. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. 429 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-7735-1207-1. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-7735-1214-4.) Get access Clyde Binfield Clyde Binfield University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American H…
Sir Makepeace Watermaster and the March of Christian People
Architecture and History
I like to hear a girl in the elementary school beginning her sentences with the words ‘I wonder why!’. There is all hope for a girl who wonders: ‘I wonder why the arches in this old church are some of them round and some of them pointed?’ You are getting ready to begin your study of English history
The Bolton Prelude to Port Sunlight
Christ Church United Reformed Church (formerly Congregational), Port Sunlight, and St George’s United Reformed Church (formerly Congregational), Thornton Hough, do not spring to mind as Free Church buildings. There is scarcely one architectural respect in which either announces a Dissenting presence. Each conforms to nationally established tradition. Their quality, however, is as incontestable as it is incontestably derivative. Their role in thei…
The Shaping of a Dissenting Interest
A Saint if ever there was One’
A ‘saint if ever there was one, but who might have been a little more effective had there been in his nature some slight traces of the old Adam’. Thus William Hardy Harwood (1856—1924) reflecting on a past member of Sub Rosa , a long-established essay club for Congregational ministers in Greater London. Harwood could only have known this particular saint for four years and perhaps his recollection is best seen as a businesslike minister’s snapsho…
Breadth from Dissent
Attitudes change. They broaden as well as contract. They reflect the permeation of dissenting ideas in apparently settled communities and the assimilation of conventionally accepted ideas by dissenters. The process is transformative. Literature is a prime medium for the transmission of ideas. It shapes attitudes. What, then, of the role of popular literature, especially fiction, in shaping the attitudes, especially the religious attitudes, of a r…
Why Spencer Perceval had to die
This book’s title is unhistorical; we all have to die, even Spencer Perceval, least known of Prime Ministers. It allows, however, for an element of mystery, although there has never been much myste
Jerusalem's Empire State? The Context and Symbolism of a Twentieth-Century Building
My theme is religious encounter in the crucible of three faiths. Its focus is a building and its impact. The encounter as yet has no conclusion. The faiths are Christianity, Islam and Judaism. The building is one of two belonging to the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) now in Jerusalem. It expresses the personalities who shaped it and the events which surrounded it. It is an essay in imperial Christian mission, inter-faith dialogue and th…
Baptists in Sacred Space? Worship, Buildings, and Belonging
An exploration, with particular reference to one Yorkshire chapel and families associated with it, of Baptists’ need for buildings to fit their worship, fellowship, and polity. The first section introduces theme, builders, architects, benefactors, noting James Cubitt and Thomas Harwood Pattison, men sensitive to aesthetics. The second outlines the development of Wainsgate. The third is about ‘belonging’. Family connections are explored, including…
From Necrology to Eulogy? A Preacher memorializes his Father-in-Law
Whether death is a passage or a terminus, an obituary can be an important accompaniment for the survivors. Victorian funerals were improved by sermons setting the deceased in the eye of eternity. Today's funerals prefer eulogies. The Congregational City Temple's Joseph Parker (1830–1902) was second only to the Baptist Metropolitan Tabernacle's Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–92) in popular estimation. Parker's father-in-law, Andrew Common (1815–96)…
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