An Intimate History of a Celibate Movement in the Episcopal Church
Project Canterbury preserves this text online. I haven’t read it all yet, but it describes the history and theology of the now-dead Episcopalian priestly celibacy movement of the late 19th century. A similar movement persists in the Church of England known as the Sodality of the Precious Blood.
- Hawks, Edward. William McGarvey and the Open Pulpit: An Intimate History of a Celibate Movement in the Episcopal Church, and of Its Collapse, 1870-1908. (Philadelphia: The Dolphin Press, 1935).
