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Front cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Structure of the book; Inclusions and exclusions; Finding the Seafarer; Finding his religion; Technical words; God has Spoken by His Prophets; 1. The Early Church; Ships and the clergy; Christians and trade; Metaphors and their sources as maritime indicators; Early Christians and the sailor; The Medieval Scene; 2. Where was the Shippingand who was at sea?; The Sources; The medieval port; Church Involvement in Trade; Lights and landmarks; Seamen's Churches; Hostels and maisons dieu; Votives

The LiturgyThe Guilds; 3. Devotion to the Saints; The Blessed Virgin Mary; Saint Nicholas; Other Maritime Saints; 4. The Canons and Sea Codes; The Decretals; The Maritime Codes; The Sea in Gratian; Religion in the Maritime Codes; The Bishop's Role in the Codes; The Taking of Oaths; The Deodand; Provision for the Sick; The Concept of Sanctuary; Crusade Influence; The Pilgrim Trade; Other Religious Content; The Canons; Canonical Evidence; 5. Religious Practice at Sea; Crusade Clergy at Sea; Non Crusade Clergy and the Sea; Religious Life on Board; The Bible at Sea; The Mass at Sea

6. From the Reformation to the Nineteenth CenturyThe English Sailor; The Catholic at Sea; The Reformed Liturgy and the seafarer; Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturyWelfare in England; Naval Chaplains; Sixteenth Century CatholicProvision for the Seafarer; Increasing French lay involvement; The Nineteenth Century; 7. The Nineteenth-Century Revival; A Time of Revival; The Bible and Tract Societies; G.C. Smith; 8. Nineteenth-Century Early Anglican Societies; Floating Churches; The Rev. John Ashley; The Thames Church Mission; 9. The Church Congresses; 10. The Missions to Seamen

Negotiations with the Bristol Channel MissionNegotiations with the Thames Church Mission; The Mersey Mission to Seamen; 11. St Andrew's Waterside Church Mission; 12. The Gibraltar Mission to Seamen; 13. American work; 14. The Religious Orders; Priscilla Lydia Sellon; Charles Plomer Hopkins; Hopkins and the Shipping Acts; Hopkins's Response; Hopkins in India; Hopkins returns to England; Towards a strike; After the strike; 15. Work among fishermen; The Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen; The Salvation Navy; The Nineteenth Century Catholic Sea Apostolate; 16. Fr Goldie SJ and the CTS

Catholic Concern for the Seafarer17. The Work for Catholic Bluejackets; 18. The OEuvres de Mer; French Work in the Fisheries from 1894; 19. Catholic Work 1900 -- 1914; 20. Peter Anson; 1921; To France, 1921 -- 22; Rome and 1922; 1923; 1924; 21. Catholic Work after Anson; Conclusion; Bibliography; Back cover

One Firm Anchor uncovers nineteen centuries of contact between the churches and the seafarer. This extensive introductory history goes beyond anything previously written on the subject in scope and detail. Until now, much has been written of the sea, but little about the relationship of the seafarer to Christianity.R.W.H Miller adeptly sets out the origins of seafaring mission in the Early Church and the medieval era. The early modern period is also considered, leading to a detailed exploration of the developments in the nineteenth century that saw the foundation of The Missions to Seamen, the.

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