"The idea of this book came late. It was July 2nd. The Lambeth Conference would begin on July 25th. .... If only, I thought, each bishop at Lambeth could be asked to say what he thinks are the best things the Church is doing in his diocese -- not only, of course, within the structures of the Church -- that could be marvellous." -- Preface.
"This is not a book about the Lambeth Conference. It was, however, made during the Conference because here, for a month, were gathered together -- perhaps it was rumoured, for the last time -- nearly five hundred bishops from different parts of the Anglican Communion. This seemed a marvellous opportunity to find out from the bishops what was happening in the Church, an opportunity to ask them questions about the kind of contribution which the Church could make in a world where many are searching for meaning and depth in their lives .... Here also was an opportunity for the bishops to speak about their own beliefs and convictions to those who feel that 'it is time to build a new world'." .... "In order to produce a book of this kind, I interviewed the bishops during the lunch-break and after the afternoon sessions of the Lambeth Conference, with a tape recorder there." .... "In spite of the obvious difficulties of getting hold of them during such a busy time, we were able to interview about a hundred and fifty bishops, representing the main areas where the Anglican Church is working. Then, having assembled the transcripts of these interviews, in the form of question and answer, I chose sixty and edited into a consecutive prose passage the 'heart' of what each bishop spoke about." -- Intro.
Contains 53 interviews chapters with bishops from around the Communion. Each chapter begins with a brief description of the diocese and the bishop being interviewed.
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface / Eric James -- Introduction / Timothy Wilson -- Bombay: Worker Priests: 'A Rent Collector, Someone in Computers, Another in the Railways' / Christopher Robinson -- Calcutta: 'If India fails, many lights will go out in Asia and elsewhere' / Lakdasa de Mel -- Barrackpore / Ronald Bryan -- California: 'How do you keep under the same umbrella ?' / Richard Millard -- Central Tanganyika: 'I am not a Number here. I am a Man' / A. Stanway -- Christchurch: 'Would the Church be missed ?' / Allan Pyatt -- Durham: 'Fulness of Life' / Ian Ramsey -- Gambia and the Rio Pongas: "We have Toiled aa Night and Caught Nothing / Timothy Olufosoye -- Guatemala" 'We have to prepare people for the Revolution which must come' / William Frey -- Hong Kong: 'Red Guards just across the River' / John Baker -- Iran: 'Every Green Leaf of a Tree is a Book about God' / Hassan Dehqani-Tafti -- Johannesburg: 'What is a man ?' / Bill Bendyshe Burnett -- Kootenay: 'So often we teded to look upon people as pew fodder' / Edward Scott -- Kurunagala: 'The Serenity of Christ' / Lakshman Wickremesinghe -- Lesotho: 'Most of the Travelling is done on Horseback' / John Maund -- Liverpool: 'Listen to the Wind' / Stuart Blanch -- Masasi: 'The Immediacy of God' / Trevor Huddleston -- Massachusetts: 'I was a black man before I was a Christian' / John Burgess -- Melanesia: 'Diocese of a thousand islands' / John Chisholm -- Mexico: A Missionary Church: 'I start talking to the shoeshine fella or the newspaper man at the corner' / Melchor Saucedo and Leonard Romero -- Middleton: Mission in a Secular World / E.R. Wickham -- Nagpur: 'Our Lord has not promised to his people a bed of roses' / John Sadiq -- Nairobi: 'No African can conceive of the Sacred apart from the Secular' / Leonard Beecher -- New Guinea: 'I never dreamed I would become a Bishop' / George Ambo -- New York: 'A New Response to the Changing Needs of the World' / Horace Donegan -- The Niger Delta: 'In spite of the war' / Alafuro Afonya -- North West Australia: 'This is one of Australia's great times of Missionary Opportunity' / Howell Witt -- Okinawa: 'Someone to whom the Sacrament means a great deal' / Edmund i.e.Edmond Browning -- Owerri: 'Here is no Abiding Place' / George Cockin and Benjamin Nwankiti -- Perth: Dialogue with other Faiths: 'Holy Insecurity' / George Appleton -- Polynesia: 'A Sense of Worship is Inescapable' / John Vockler -- The Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States: 'The Agonised Cry of a People who had no place in American society' / John Hines -- The Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States: 'All the Walls Came Tumbling Down' / Daniel Corrigan -- Puerto Rico: 'Collecting the Garbage' / Francisco Reus-Froylan -- Rockhampton: 'What I feel about the Bush and its Awesomeness and its Grandeur and its Majesty is a Sense of Adoration' / Donald Shearman -- Singapore and Malaya: From Barrister to Bishop / Chiu Ban It -- Spokane: 'What kind of Theology of Leisure do we have ?' / John Wyatt -- The Sudan: 'God does not only love the Christians' / Oliver Allison -- Taiwan: 'If you have not served Man well enough, why do you want to serve God ?/ James Wong -- Taejon: The Church: 'A Place for the Celebration of Joy' / Richard Rutt -- Taunton: `A Man for All Seasons' / Francis West -- Tokyo: 'Can you become a Christian without understanding English ? / David Goto -- Trinidad and Tobago: Christian Social Work / William Hughes -- Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi: 'What is the Church' / Janani Luwum -- Ruwenzori / Yonasani Rwakaikara -- Wakefield: 'Brother, you don't know the half of it' / Eric Treacy -- Washington: 'Individuals spoke their prayersm screamed their anger' / Paul Moore Jr. -- West Missouri: 'Community Organisation' / Edward Welles -- Zambia: 'New Forms of Missionary Work' / Oliver Green-Wilkinson -- Zanzibar and Tanga: 'The Church Welcomed to the Revolution' / Neil Russell -- Zululand: 'Here is the Way, Walk upon it' / Alphaeus Zulu.
"The idea of this book came late. It was July 2nd. The Lambeth Conference would begin on July 25th. .... If only, I thought, each bishop at Lambeth could be asked to say what he thinks are the best things the Church is doing in his diocese -- not only, of course, within the structures of the Church -- that could be marvellous." -- Preface.
"This is not a book about the Lambeth Conference. It was, however, made during the Conference because here, for a month, were gathered together -- perhaps it was rumoured, for the last time -- nearly five hundred bishops from different parts of the Anglican Communion. This seemed a marvellous opportunity to find out from the bishops what was happening in the Church, an opportunity to ask them questions about the kind of contribution which the Church could make in a world where many are searching for meaning and depth in their lives .... Here also was an opportunity for the bishops to speak about their own beliefs and convictions to those who feel that 'it is time to build a new world'." .... "In order to produce a book of this kind, I interviewed the bishops during the lunch-break and after the afternoon sessions of the Lambeth Conference, with a tape recorder there." .... "In spite of the obvious difficulties of getting hold of them during such a busy time, we were able to interview about a hundred and fifty bishops, representing the main areas where the Anglican Church is working. Then, having assembled the transcripts of these interviews, in the form of question and answer, I chose sixty and edited into a consecutive prose passage the 'heart' of what each bishop spoke about." -- Intro.
Contains 53 interviews chapters with bishops from around the Communion. Each chapter begins with a brief description of the diocese and the bishop being interviewed.
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface / Eric James -- Introduction / Timothy Wilson -- Bombay: Worker Priests: 'A Rent Collector, Someone in Computers, Another in the Railways' / Christopher Robinson -- Calcutta: 'If India fails, many lights will go out in Asia and elsewhere' / Lakdasa de Mel -- Barrackpore / Ronald Bryan -- California: 'How do you keep under the same umbrella ?' / Richard Millard -- Central Tanganyika: 'I am not a Number here. I am a Man' / A. Stanway -- Christchurch: 'Would the Church be missed ?' / Allan Pyatt -- Durham: 'Fulness of Life' / Ian Ramsey -- Gambia and the Rio Pongas: "We have Toiled aa Night and Caught Nothing / Timothy Olufosoye -- Guatemala" 'We have to prepare people for the Revolution which must come' / William Frey -- Hong Kong: 'Red Guards just across the River' / John Baker -- Iran: 'Every Green Leaf of a Tree is a Book about God' / Hassan Dehqani-Tafti -- Johannesburg: 'What is a man ?' / Bill Bendyshe Burnett -- Kootenay: 'So often we teded to look upon people as pew fodder' / Edward Scott -- Kurunagala: 'The Serenity of Christ' / Lakshman Wickremesinghe -- Lesotho: 'Most of the Travelling is done on Horseback' / John Maund -- Liverpool: 'Listen to the Wind' / Stuart Blanch -- Masasi: 'The Immediacy of God' / Trevor Huddleston -- Massachusetts: 'I was a black man before I was a Christian' / John Burgess -- Melanesia: 'Diocese of a thousand islands' / John Chisholm -- Mexico: A Missionary Church: 'I start talking to the shoeshine fella or the newspaper man at the corner' / Melchor Saucedo and Leonard Romero -- Middleton: Mission in a Secular World / E.R. Wickham -- Nagpur: 'Our Lord has not promised to his people a bed of roses' / John Sadiq -- Nairobi: 'No African can conceive of the Sacred apart from the Secular' / Leonard Beecher -- New Guinea: 'I never dreamed I would become a Bishop' / George Ambo -- New York: 'A New Response to the Changing Needs of the World' / Horace Donegan -- The Niger Delta: 'In spite of the war' / Alafuro Afonya -- North West Australia: 'This is one of Australia's great times of Missionary Opportunity' / Howell Witt -- Okinawa: 'Someone to whom the Sacrament means a great deal' / Edmund i.e.Edmond Browning -- Owerri: 'Here is no Abiding Place' / George Cockin and Benjamin Nwankiti -- Perth: Dialogue with other Faiths: 'Holy Insecurity' / George Appleton -- Polynesia: 'A Sense of Worship is Inescapable' / John Vockler -- The Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States: 'The Agonised Cry of a People who had no place in American society' / John Hines -- The Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States: 'All the Walls Came Tumbling Down' / Daniel Corrigan -- Puerto Rico: 'Collecting the Garbage' / Francisco Reus-Froylan -- Rockhampton: 'What I feel about the Bush and its Awesomeness and its Grandeur and its Majesty is a Sense of Adoration' / Donald Shearman -- Singapore and Malaya: From Barrister to Bishop / Chiu Ban It -- Spokane: 'What kind of Theology of Leisure do we have ?' / John Wyatt -- The Sudan: 'God does not only love the Christians' / Oliver Allison -- Taiwan: 'If you have not served Man well enough, why do you want to serve God ?/ James Wong -- Taejon: The Church: 'A Place for the Celebration of Joy' / Richard Rutt -- Taunton: `A Man for All Seasons' / Francis West -- Tokyo: 'Can you become a Christian without understanding English ? / David Goto -- Trinidad and Tobago: Christian Social Work / William Hughes -- Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi: 'What is the Church' / Janani Luwum -- Ruwenzori / Yonasani Rwakaikara -- Wakefield: 'Brother, you don't know the half of it' / Eric Treacy -- Washington: 'Individuals spoke their prayersm screamed their anger' / Paul Moore Jr. -- West Missouri: 'Community Organisation' / Edward Welles -- Zambia: 'New Forms of Missionary Work' / Oliver Green-Wilkinson -- Zanzibar and Tanga: 'The Church Welcomed to the Revolution' / Neil Russell -- Zululand: 'Here is the Way, Walk upon it' / Alphaeus Zulu.
"[B]y H.B. Dehqani-Tafti, Anglican Bishop in Iran".
Cover title: Design of my world : pilgrimage to Christianity.
"First published as a World Christian Book 1959. World Christian Books Special 1968. This edition published 1982." -- verso of t.-p.
The story of the first Iranian Bishop of the Anglican Church in Iran "whose son was killed by the revolutionary forces, who narrowly escaped death himself when he was attacked with his wife at their home in Isfahan, and who subsequently came to England as an exile". -- back cover.
Contents: Foreword dated Cambridge, England, February 1981 / H.B. Dehqani-Tafti, Bishop in Iran -- From Yezd to Isfahan: Home and Heritage -- In Isfahan to Christ: Struggle and Faith -- With Christ Through Despair: Adversity and Trust -- To Isfahan in Ministry: The Call to Interpret.
"First published 1959. Second Impression 1959. Third Impression 1962".
"How does one who has grown up in a non-Christian society react to the experience of entering into and living in the Christian Church ? Not many who have passed through this transition have written intimately of what it has meant to them. .... The Rt. Rev. Hassan Dehqani-Tafti is Bishop of the Anglican Church Diocese in Iran. Most of his history is to be found in the book that he has written for World Christian Books. Christian literature is among his many concerns and he has served as translator into Persian of `The Christian Character' and other World Christian Books". -- back cover.
Contents: Introduction -- From Yezd to Isfahan: Home and Heritage -- In Isfahan to Christ: Struggle and Faith -- With Christ Through Despair: Adversity and Trust -- To Isfahan in Ministry: The Call to Interpret.
"First published 2003 by Melisende an imprint of Fox Communications and Publications, 39 Chelmsford Road, London E18 2PW". -- verso of t.-p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Bibliography of "Kenneth Cragg's Main Works": p.419-423.
A collection of essays published on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday to celebrate "the impact and very special contribution that Bishop Kenneth Cragg has made throughout his long life to the interpretation of Islam and to the religious landscape of the Middle East". -- inside front dust jacket.
Contents: From the Archbishop of Canterbury / Rowan Williams -- Foreword / David Thomas and Clare Amos -- List of Contributors -- Introduction / Clive Handford -- Dr. Kenneth Cragg as I Have Known Him / Kenneth E. Nolin -- Balancing Divergence and Convergence, or 'Is God the Author of Confusion ?' : An Essay on Kenneth Cragg / Jane I. Smith -- 'By Their Fruits Shall You Know Them' / Hassan B. Dehqanu-Tafti and Guli E. Francis-Dehqani -- The Purification Lane, Kenneth Cragg's Theological Relations to Islam Seen Through the Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer / Bard Maeland -- On Being a Guineapig / Judy and Sigvard von Sicard -- The Significance of 'The Call of the Minaret' for Christian Thinking About Islam / Hugh Goddard -- Singing of God's Incarnation / Richard I. Jones -- Serving at the Table of Jesus, Servant of Others / Clare Amos -- Kenneth Cragg's Understanding of Christian Mission to Islam / Christopher Lamb -- Poems of Yearning I / Najwa Farah -- Mary in the Qu'ran / David Marshall -- A Frivolous God ? (a-fa-hasibtum annama khalaqnakum 'abathan) / Mark N. Swanson -- Theology and the Arab Christian: the Case of the 'Melkite' Creed / Sidney H. Griffith -- Al-Ghazali's Benign Influence on Temple Gairdner / Michael T. Shelley -- Maronites and Missionaries: a Critical Appraisal of the Affairs of As'ad al-Shidyaq (1825-1829) / David Kerr -- The 'political equation' in Al-jihad fi al-Islam of Abu A'la Mawdudi (1903-1979) / Jan Slomp -- The Image of Jesus and Christianity in Shi'a Islam and Modern Iranian Thought / Anthony O'Mahony -- Hermits and Hierarchs / John Watson -- Poems of Yearning II / Najwa Farah -- The Use of Scripture in Discussions between Christians and Muslims / David Thomas -- Karbala and Cross: Christian-Muslim relations from the Perspective of Indian Shi'ite Preaching / Toby Howarth -- Love and Law in Christianity and Islam / Michael Nazir-Ali -- Speaking Truth in the Jewish-Christian Dialogue / Michael Prior -- Is There an Escape from the History of Christian-Muslim Relations ? / Jorgen S. Nielsen -- Islamic Charter for Germany / Christian W. Troll -- 'Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart ?': a Christian spiritual theology for dialogue with Muslims / Martin Forward -- An Agenda for Dialogue / Colin Chapman -- Pluralism and Interreligious Engagement: The Contexts of Dialogue / Douglas Pratt -- Kenneth Cragg's Main Works.
Colophon: Edited by Leonard Harrow. Printed in England by the St. Edmundsbury Press.
"First published 2003 by Melisende an imprint of Fox Communications and Publications, 39 Chelmsford Road, London E18 2PW". -- verso of t.-p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Bibliography of "Kenneth Cragg's Main Works": p.419-423.
A collection of essays published on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday to celebrate "the impact and very special contribution that Bishop Kenneth Cragg has made throughout his long life to the interpretation of Islam and to the religious landscape of the Middle East". -- inside front dust jacket.
Contents: From the Archbishop of Canterbury / Rowan Williams -- Foreword / David Thomas and Clare Amos -- List of Contributors -- Introduction / Clive Handford -- Dr. Kenneth Cragg as I Have Known Him / Kenneth E. Nolin -- Balancing Divergence and Convergence, or 'Is God the Author of Confusion ?' : An Essay on Kenneth Cragg / Jane I. Smith -- 'By Their Fruits Shall You Know Them' / Hassan B. Dehqanu-Tafti and Guli E. Francis-Dehqani -- The Purification Lane, Kenneth Cragg's Theological Relations to Islam Seen Through the Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer / Bard Maeland -- On Being a Guineapig / Judy and Sigvard von Sicard -- The Significance of 'The Call of the Minaret' for Christian Thinking About Islam / Hugh Goddard -- Singing of God's Incarnation / Richard I. Jones -- Serving at the Table of Jesus, Servant of Others / Clare Amos -- Kenneth Cragg's Understanding of Christian Mission to Islam / Christopher Lamb -- Poems of Yearning I / Najwa Farah -- Mary in the Qu'ran / David Marshall -- A Frivolous God ? (a-fa-hasibtum annama khalaqnakum 'abathan) / Mark N. Swanson -- Theology and the Arab Christian: the Case of the 'Melkite' Creed / Sidney H. Griffith -- Al-Ghazali's Benign Influence on Temple Gairdner / Michael T. Shelley -- Maronites and Missionaries: a Critical Appraisal of the Affairs of As'ad al-Shidyaq (1825-1829) / David Kerr -- The 'political equation' in Al-jihad fi al-Islam of Abu A'la Mawdudi (1903-1979) / Jan Slomp -- The Image of Jesus and Christianity in Shi'a Islam and Modern Iranian Thought / Anthony O'Mahony -- Hermits and Hierarchs / John Watson -- Poems of Yearning II / Najwa Farah -- The Use of Scripture in Discussions between Christians and Muslims / David Thomas -- Karbala and Cross: Christian-Muslim relations from the Perspective of Indian Shi'ite Preaching / Toby Howarth -- Love and Law in Christianity and Islam / Michael Nazir-Ali -- Speaking Truth in the Jewish-Christian Dialogue / Michael Prior -- Is There an Escape from the History of Christian-Muslim Relations ? / Jorgen S. Nielsen -- Islamic Charter for Germany / Christian W. Troll -- 'Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart ?': a Christian spiritual theology for dialogue with Muslims / Martin Forward -- An Agenda for Dialogue / Colin Chapman -- Pluralism and Interreligious Engagement: The Contexts of Dialogue / Douglas Pratt -- Kenneth Cragg's Main Works.
Colophon: Edited by Leonard Harrow. Printed in England by the St. Edmundsbury Press.
"[By] H.B. Dehqani-Tafti, Bishop in Iran and President Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East".
The author "writes of his country's pain and of his own. During the time of confusion after the Shah had fallen, church property had been confiscated, offices broken into and files rifled, clergy and staff arrested, and the Bishop himself attacked. But the greatest personal tragedy was to come after he had left Iran, when his son was murdered. Bishop Dehqani-Tafti does not judge or condemn either the Shah or the present Iranian government. .... The Bishop's unique position and understanding of the Iranian people make this truly the inside story of the Iranian revolution during its first chaotic year". -- dust jacket blurb.
Contents: Preface dated Cambridge, November 1980 / H.B. Dehqani-Tafti, Bishop in Iran -- The Gathering Storm -- Iran and Western Missionaries -- The First Persian Bishop -- Suddenly a Whirlwind -- From the Gates of Death -- Torn Two Ways -- Tears Ought to Freeze -- How Long Can This Go On ? -- 'Truly Life is but Belief and Struggle' -- A Father's Prayer upon the Murder of his Son -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements .
The former Bishop of Iran, the Rt. Rev. Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, writes "to correct a wrong impression ... as a result of an unfortunate statement in the recently published book by Gavin Hewitt "Terry Waite and Ollie North".
"Edited by Kenneth Cragg. Foreword by Bishop John V. Taylor".
"Copyright H.B. Dehqani-Tafti 2000. First published in 2000 by The Canterbury Press Norwich ... Originally published in Persian in 1999 by Sohrab Books, Basingstoke, England." -- verso of t.-p.
Translated from the Persian.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Acknowledgement / H.B. Dehqani-Tafti -- Foreword / John V. Taylor (Bishop of Winchester 1975-85) -- Design of My World: An Introduction -- Homeland -- Isfahan -- Tehran -- Military Service -- Answering the Call -- Learning the Ministry -- Fulfilling Life's Aspirations -- My Tenure as Bishop -- Watchman: What of the Night ? -- Goodbye, Beloved Country -- Editor's Postscript -- Notes -- Index.
"Compiled by The Rev. James T. Irvine, Warden of Lay Readers of the Diocese of Fredericton".
"First Printing".
Contains 18 sermons by Anglican bishops, five of them Anglican Church of Canada.
"This collection of sermons by men of God serving in Bishop's Orders is produced chiefly for use by Licensed Layreaders serving our Lord in rural and isolated areas. This is the second collection of this kind and the effort was made to gather the material together because of the overwhelming response to the first series, now in a second limited mimeographed edition." -- Intro.
Contents: [Mail Order Form] -- Introduction dated St. Luke's Day,1983 / James T. Irvine -- Prepare for the Coming / Arthur G. Peters -- Away From Home / Stuart Blanch -- Future Resolutions / Philip A. Smith -- Life is to Follow God / Paul Reeves -- Don't Be Afraid: It is I ! / H.B. Dehqani-Tafti -- The Cross of Christ / Philip Russell -- Repentance is Changing Your Mind / John M. Krumm -- The Seventh Word / Howell Witt -- Temptation: Jesus and His Church / Lyman C. Ogilby -- Message de Paque / Luc A. Garnier -- I Have Seen the Lord ! / William C. Frey -- Reductions / P.F. Carnley -- The Disciples Were Glad When They Saw the Lord / Samir Kafity -- "Of Such is the Kingdom of God" / Derwyn D. Jones -- The Clowns of God / John C. Bothwell -- A New Metaphor for Churches / Robert M. Anderson -- Mountain-Top Experiences / Geoffrey Parke-Taylor -- Stewardship: Giving without Remembering, Receiving without Forgetting / Russel F. Brown.