Contents: Authors -- Introduction / Ian Bunting --Celebrating the Anglican Way / George Carey -- Part 1: Believing the Anglican Way -- 1. The Anglican Character / Stephen Sykes -- 2. Church and society / John Habgood -- 3. Anglican belief / Bruce Kaye -- 4. A worldwide communion / Michael Nazir-Ali -- Part 2: Belonging in the Anglican Church -- 5. Anglican origins and ethos / Elizabeth Culling -- 6. The Anglican way of worship / Michael Vasey -- 7. Word and sacrament / Philip Seddon -- 8. Churchmanship / Jonathan Baker -- Part 3: Following the Anglican Way -- 9. Praying our way through life / Graham Piggott -- 10. Sharing our faith in the world / Amiel Osmaston and Alison White -- 11. Care and change in our society / Lawrence Osbern -- Part 4: Appreciating Anglican structures -- 12. Orders and officers of the church / David Sceats -- 13. Church government / Michael Botting -- 14. Church buildings / Richard and Sarah Burton -- Part 5: The Way Ahead -- 15. The Anglican future / Ian Bunting -- 16. Praying with the church -- Further reading -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
Colophon: Designed and typeset by Kenneth Burnley at Typograph, Irby, Wirral, Cheshire. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham PLC, Chatham, Kent.
OTCH Note: The essay "Orders and officers of the church" is particularly useful for brief histories and descriptions of individuals and bodies such as: all orders of clergy (bishop, priest, deacon), parish, deanery, diocese, etc.
This book is disappointing because, though almost every chapter presents solid insights on Anglicanism, the focus on the Church of England limits its usefulness elsewhere.
"Edited by Nicholas Sagovsky, Dean of Clare College, Cambridge".
"First Impression November 1990". -- verso of t.-p.
"Clare College Sermons of the Three Terms in 1989-90. This volume is the third of three sets of sermons, preached in Clare College Chapel through the three terms of the academic year 1989-90, each being edited by Nicholas Sagovsky, and published by Grove Books in a matching format". -- verso of t.-p.
"The sermons in this series were preached in Clare College Chapel in the early Summer of 1990 to a congregation of university students and teachers. They concluded a series entitled 'Into the 1990s', in which we tried to take stock of the role of the Church and its mission in society at the beginning of a new decade. Preachers were asked to speak 'prophetically' not in the sense that they were asked to foretell the future ... but in the sense that they were asked to share their discernment of the needs and demands of the decade into which we are now moving". -- Intro.
Contents: Introduction / Nicholas Sagovsky -- 'Lord, Teach us to Pray' / C.F.D. Moule -- 'Prayer, Answered and Unanswered' / Elisabeth Templeton -- 'Praying in Solidarity with the Poor' / Janet Morley -- 'To Know God and Make God Known' / Ian D. Bunting -- 'Praying in the Spirit' / Kenneth Leech.