Many books have been written for those about to join the ministry, but most focus on the external and practical aspects of the job. The Threshold of the Sanctuary focuses on the inner aspects of the pastoral and ministerial life. Randolph covers such topics as repentance, prayer, meditation, self-discipline, study, and more.
It is marked throughout by high spiritual tone and a keen insight into the needs of the clergy and of candidates for ordination.
—Church Quarterly Review
Berkeley William Randolph (1858–1925) was educated at Haileybury and Balliol College, Oxford, and was ordained a priest in 1882. He was a fellow of St. Augustine’s College, Canterbury, from 1880 to 1883, and principal of St. Stephen’s House, Oxford, from 1884 to 1885. He was then appointed principal of Ely Theological College in 1891.