"Foreword by the Right Reverend Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Writing for lay people and clergy, six leading writers and pastors combine a passion for the gospel with a search for new ways of practising the life of faith. Drawing in original and often surprising ways from history and human rights theory, from theology and philosophy, they argue that a change in the Church's approach to homosexuality would be consistent with the Church's understanding of Scripture and with its traditional way of working with doctrine". -- back cover.
Contents: Notes on Contributors -- Foreword / Richard Harries -- Introduction / Nicholas Coulton -- Does it matter enough, and to whom ? / Nicholas Coulton -- 'The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life' : Christian biblical interpretation / Christopher Rowland -- Sexuality without taboos / Marilyn McCord Adams -- Marriage, sexuality and the Christian tradition / Jane Shaw -- The Church and human sexuality : bringing a human rights perspective / Margaret Bedggood -- Human nature, Christian vocation and the sexes / Robert Merrihew Adams -- Conversion : apparent and real / John Drury -- Appendix : The Church of England : Decades of debate / Nicholas Coulton -- Index.
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"Foreword by the Right Reverend Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Writing for lay people and clergy, six leading writers and pastors combine a passion for the gospel with a search for new ways of practising the life of faith. Drawing in original and often surprising ways from history and human rights theory, from theology and philosophy, they argue that a change in the Church's approach to homosexuality would be consistent with the Church's understanding of Scripture and with its traditional way of working with doctrine". -- back cover.
Contents: Notes on Contributors -- Foreword / Richard Harries -- Introduction / Nicholas Coulton -- Does it matter enough, and to whom ? / Nicholas Coulton -- 'The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life' : Christian biblical interpretation / Christopher Rowland -- Sexuality without taboos / Marilyn McCord Adams -- Marriage, sexuality and the Christian tradition / Jane Shaw -- The Church and human sexuality : bringing a human rights perspective / Margaret Bedggood -- Human nature, Christian vocation and the sexes / Robert Merrihew Adams -- Conversion : apparent and real / John Drury -- Appendix : The Church of England : Decades of debate / Nicholas Coulton -- Index.
Colophon: Phototypeset by IntypeLibra Ltd, London. Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Bath.
"With a Foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury".
"The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book".
"First published in Great Britain by Fount Paperbacks, London in 1990 in association with Faith Press". -- verso of t.-p.
The author "makes us recognize the perennial interdependence of word, image, symbol and ritual within Christian culture. He shows us how the creative religious imagination can enhance Christian living, and he almost persuades us that the ;post-orthodoxy' of our own times can strengthen rather than threaten our Christian identity. 'Being free to choose', he tells us, 'can be, possibly just is, more favourable to sincere and integrated Christianity that compulsion, although it gives us more to do'." -- Foreword.
"In this book the focus of that mystery, and the truth about our relations with other people, is the Eucharist". -- back cover.
Contents: Foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury / Robert Cantuar i.e. Runcie -- Acknowledgements: And On Going Down and Out -- Symbols and Time -- The Embarrassment of Riches -- Food for Tradition -- Picture Making -- Acknowledging Darkness -- Personal, Apersonal and Communion -- Life-Giving Criticism -- Jesus: Self Becomes Social.
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Author is a Church of England priest and Dean of King's College, Cambridge.
Includes "Bibliography of Richard Harries' publications to 2004": p. [223]-231.
Contents divided into three main parts: Introduction -- Engaging with Issues -- Public Life and the Place of the Church.
Contents: List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part One: Introduction -- Richard : The Person and the Bishop / James Woodward -- Richard Harries and the Issues of Our Times / Julia Neuberger -- Only Connect / Eric James -- Part Two: Engaging with Issues -- Arms and Justice / Christopher Rowland -- The Media and the Church / Melvyn Bragg -- Contemporary Spirituality and Christian Doctrine / Keith Ward -- Multicultural Britain and Interfaith Dialogue / Margaret Shepherd and Jonathan Gorsky -- Sex and the Church of England / Jane Shaw -- Capitalism and the Gospel for the Rich / Edmund Newell and Sabine Alkire -- Art and Faith / Roger Wagner -- Poetry and Truth / John Drury -- The House of Lords and Religion / Douglas Hurd -- Christian Medical Ethics / Claire Foster -- Part Three: Public Life and the Place of the Church -- A Dialogue / Shirley Williams, Michael Bourke and Anthony Howard -- The Health of the Spirit / Rowan Williams -- Bibliography of Richard Harries' publications to 2004 / compiled by Michael Brierley -- Index.