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Inferior office? A history of deacons in the Church of England . By Francis Young . Pp. xxxviii + 180 incl. 6 tables. Cambridge : James Clarke , 2015. £25 (paper). 978 0 227 17488 3
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In his brief history of deacons in the Church of England, Young seeks to show that a small but important group of men (and, much later, women) remained deacons for a variety of reasons, even though the evidence is scanty. These included failure to find a benefice and a secure income, lack of adequate education, or a career in a form of ministry that did not include the...