Hebert Kelly Bibliography
Published books
The History of a Religious Idea, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamiliton, Kent & co., 1889
A History of the Church of Christ vol 1, Longmans, Green & Co., 1901
A History of the Church of Christ vol 2, Longmans, Green & Co., 1902
England and the Church, Longmans, Green & Co., 1902
The Church and Religious Unity, Longmans, Green & Co., 1913
The Gospel of God, 1928
No Pious Person
Autobiographical recollections drawn from the writings of Herbert Kelly and his brother Alfred. Edited by George Every, Faith Press, 1960
SSM Pamphlets
Training for Ordination, 1901
The Society of the Sacred Mission: A Vindication of its Principles, 1901
Aims and Methods of Theological Study, 1904
The Church and the Ordination Question, 1907
The Christian Faith, 1907
An Idea in the Working: An Account of the Society of the Sacred Mission. Its History and Aims, 1909-67
(later editions have a supplementary chapter by Reginald Tribe, SSM)
The Universities and the Training of the Clergy, 1909
Christian Unity and the Church, 1909
Memorandum on Theological Education, 1909
The Continuation of Study, 1909
On the Aims and Methods of Theological Study, 1913
Other Published Pamphlets
The Office of the Religious Life in the Church, Mowbury, 12pp., 1896
The Training of an Indian Ministry, SPCK, 35pp., 1912
A Statement of the Christian Faith, Longmans, Green & Co. 34pp., 1916
The National Mission and the Church, Longmans, Green & Co., 1916
Principles of Reunion, SPCK, 1920
The Social Teaching of the Medieval Church, Anglo-Catholic Congress Books, Society of SS Peter & Paul, 24pp., 1925
Publications by other SSM members
A. G. Hebert, Liturgy and Society (Faber & Faber 1936).
A. G. Hebert, The Form of the Church (Faber & Faber 1944).
A. G. Hebert, When Israel came out of Egypt (SCM 1961).
A. G. Hebert, The Bible from Within (Oxford 1950).
A. G. Hebert, God and His Works (SPCK 1927).
D. Jenks, A Study of Intercession (Longmans 1917).
A. D. Kelly, Values of the Christian Life (SPCK 1925).
Other Works
In additon to the works listed here, Kelly was a regular contributor to the SSM Quarterly between 1902 and 1950.
His corpus also includes a lecture series for Kelham students, a range of conference papers and talks given to groups such as the Student Christian Movement and for the church in Japan.
The SSM archive, at the Borthwick Institute, University of York, also holds many unpublished papers and short stories, some of which were published posthumously in SSM Quarterly. A full list of these will be available on this website in due course.
Governing Documents of SSM
The Principles, SSM
The Constitution, SSM
Publications about Kelly & SSM
HK of Kelham, Anon, SSM Press, 1960
SSM An Idea Still Working, SSM Press, 1980
Father Kelly and the Idea of Theology, Anon, 1987
History of the Society of the Sacred Mission, Alistair Mason, Canterbury Press, 1993
Towards a New Day, Ralph Martin SSM, Darton Longman and Todd, 2015
The Letters of Herbert Kelly and Dorothy L. Sayers, Ed. Scholastica Jacob, SSM, 2024
Unpublished Thesis: Herbert Hamilton Kelly SSM: A Study in Failure (a contribution to the search for a credible Catholicism), Alan Williams Jones, University of Nottingham, 1971