\nThe Society of the Faith was founded in 1905 by the Revd Canon J A\nDouglas, sometime Vicar of St Luke\u2019s Camberwell, and his brother,\nthe Revd C E Douglas. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe Douglas brothers were firmly committed to a catholic\nunderstanding of the Church of England. They founded the Society to\nbe \u2018an Association of Christians in communion with the See of\nCanterbury for mutual assistance in the work of Christ\u2019s Church and\nfor the furtherance of such charitable undertakings as may from time\nto time be decided upon, more especially for the popularisation of\nCatholic faith.\u2019 \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe brothers were also much concerned with ecumenical relations,\nfostering Anglican-Orthodox contacts and founding the Nikaean Club to\nassist the Archbishop of Canterbury with ecumenical networking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe Society\u2019s first work was the printing of Sunday School stamps,\nwhich proved immensely popular. This success inspired the foundation\nof Faith Press, which published several thousand books, both\nscholarly and popular, as well as church music. In 1916 the Society\nfounded Faith Craft to produce high quality vestments and church\nfurnishings. Their biggest single commission involved the\nrefurbishment of St Mary-le-Bow in London after the Second World War,\nbut their work can be found throughout England. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe Douglas brothers lived on into the 1950s, but times and tastes\nwere starting to change. Faith Press and Faith Craft both ceased\noperating around 1970, but the Society still pursues its original\nobjectives: promoting high standards in publishing, church furnishing\nand theological education. Recent co-publications with the Canterbury\nPress include Michael Yelton\u2019s Anglican Papalism <\/em>(2005),\nPaula Gooder\u2019s The Meaning is in the Waiting <\/em>(2008), John\nGunstone\u2019s Lift High the Cross: Anglo-Catholics and the Congress\nMovement <\/em>(2010), and Margery Roberts\u2019 Church Linen,\nVestments and Textiles <\/em>(2015). In 2013, in association with\nChurch House Publishing, the Society brought out Robert Reiss\u2019s\nbook The Testing of Vocation: 100 years of ministry selection in\nthe Church of England<\/em>, and in 2015 Robert Gage\u2019s All Manner\nof Workmanship: Papers from a Symposium on Faith Craft<\/em> in\nassociation with Spire Books, Ltd. Most recently, in 2016, the\nSociety published Michael Yelton\u2019s Martin Travers: His Life and\n<\/em>Work, also in association with Spire Books. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe Society has held the lease of Faith House, 7 Tufton Street,\nWestminster, since 1935. Faith House is home to the church furnishers\nWatts & Company, The National Churches Trust, and Sion College. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can find out more by visiting the Society\u2019s web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Society of the Faith was founded in 1905 by the Revd Canon J A Douglas, sometime Vicar of St Luke\u2019s Camberwell, and his brother, the Revd C E Douglas. The Douglas brothers were firmly committed to a catholic understanding of the Church of England. They founded the Society to be \u2018an Association of Christians … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicity.societyofthefaith.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicity.societyofthefaith.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicity.societyofthefaith.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicity.societyofthefaith.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicity.societyofthefaith.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/catholicity.societyofthefaith.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/catholicity.societyofthefaith.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicity.societyofthefaith.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}