"We are a group of theologians who work mostly in a university context, and in theological education. .... Out of a basic belief that the Church of England should be able to move to a position of greater toleration of faithful, stable gay relationships, we want to lay out for those outside the academy, as well as within it, reasons why we believe this is a debate worth having in the church. It is the conviction of the authors of this volume that, for all that this is an issue on which there are serious matters of principle on both sides, and for all that the symbolic nature of the confrontation of Christian faith and modernity is very acute, this is not actually a decisive question for the survival of Christian faith itself, nor for the survival of the Church of England and of Anglicanism more widely". -- Intro., pp. 2-3.
Contents divided into four main parts: The Use of Scripture -- History and Tradition -- Reason and Personhood -- The Wider Horizon.
Contents: List of Contributors -- Foreword / Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus -- Introduction / Duncan Dormor and Jeremy Morris -- Whose text is it anyway ? Limit and freedom in interpretation / Maggi Dawn -- Threat and promise: the Old Testament on sexuality / Andrew Mein -- The call of Christ: reading the New Testament / Arnold Browne -- The Church and change: tradition and development / Jeremy Morris -- Godly conversation: marriage, the companionate life and the Church of England / Jessica Martin -- Friends, companions and bedfellows: sexuality and social change / Duncan Dormor -- Thinking about Christ's body; thinking about his face / Jessica Martin -- 'Neither male nor female': the case of intersexuality / John Hare -- Psychology and orientation: being human within culture and history / Arnold Browne -- Sex and the city: economics, morality and counter-cultural living / Malcolm Brown -- HIV/AIDS: the real challenge for the Anglican Communion ? / Michael Beasley -- Selling body and soul in the 'fantasy economy' / Duncan Dormor -- Afterword: listening in the pews / Duncan Dormor and Jeremy Morris -- Further reading -- Index of biblical references -- Index of subjects.
"This account of the teachings of Christianity as received within the Church of England is in no sense an official document. It began with an invitation from His Grace the Archbishop of York, Dr. David Hope, to devise a scheme of training for lay and ordained ministry in the Diocese of York". -- Preface, p. xi.
Contents: Foreword / David Ebor, The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Archbishop of York -- Preface dated York: April 2000 / Edward Norman -- I : Doctrine and Order -- II : Morality and Applications -- III : The Christian Life.
"Edited by Duncan Dormor, Jack McDonald and Jeremy Caddick".
Includes bibliographical references.
"Modernity is a set of questions, preoccupations and anxieties, and Anglicanism is equipped to engage with them in what one of our authors calls `conversational' mode. Anglicanism `answers' modernity because it has bothered to listen to it and thinks it is worth talking with. In a good conversation, something is genuinely contributed towards a common future, but always in response to the reality of what's presented, rather than in lecturing or preaching mode". -- Preface, p. viii.
Contents divided into four main parts: Presence -- Inquiry -- Engagement -- Identity.
Contents: Preface / Rowan Williams -- Introduction : Theology, Wisdom and the Future of the Church of England / Duncan Dormor, Jack McDonald and Jeremy Caddick -- Ancient and Postmodern : Lessons from Wisdom for Ministry / Jo Bailey Wells -- The Anglican Church as a Polity of Presence / Ben Quash -- "I am the Truth" : Text, Hermeneutics and the Person of Christ / Maggi Dawn -- The Church of England and Evil : Active Optimism / Jack McDonald -- Issues of Life and Death : Why Medical Ethics Needs the Church / Jeremy Caddick -- "Come Live with Me and Be My Love" : Marriage, Cohabitation and the Church / Duncan Dormor -- The Future of Church and State / Jeremy Morris -- Anglicanism : The Only Answer to Modernity / Timothy Jenkins.
"Foreword by: Most Rev. Dr. Josiah Idowu-Fearon, Archbishop of Kaduna, Nigeria, and member of the Eames Commission [and] Rt. Rev. Michael Ingham, Bishop of New Westminster, Canada".
"This book is written both as a submission to the Eames Commission [Lambeth Commission], and as a contribution to the subsequent discussion. At the time of writing it contains, to my knowledge, the only detailed plan for resolving the crisis (pp. 19-20)." The thrust of this book "is that the Anglican Church can and should remain intact, but should have in some provinces a parallel episcopal structure similar to that instituted in England when the decision was made to ordain women to the priesthood; and I have used the image of a `quilt' to
describe this. Having completed this second draft, I have convinced myself that a quilt is far preferable to schism, and that becoming a quilt is the only realistic way of avoiding schism. I hope I can convince you (p. 21)". -- Intro.
"This book offers a detailed plan for resolving the present crisis over homosexuality in the Anglican Church, prompted by the appointment of openly gay bishops in the USA and England, and the blessing of a gay partnership in Canada. Tracing the roots of the crisis back to the foundation of Anglicanism over four centuries ago, Robert Van de Weyer shows why ancient divisions have grown wider in recent decades. He argues that the two side [which he calls Evangelicals (or Orthodox) and Incarnationals] now need separate episcopal arrangements -- yet both sides have much to gain by remaining together in a single body". -- back cover.
Contents: Endorsements -- Forewords / Josiah Idowu-Fearon [dated 28 January 2004] and Michael Ingham [dated 4 February 2004] -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction --Proposals for the Whole Anglican Communion -- Theology -- Morality -- Ecclesiology -- Proposals for the Church of England -- Afterword.
Author is a priest of the Church of England.
Colophon: Printed by Tien Wah Press (Pte) Ltd, Singapore.
"If this study should seem polemical or critical at points, it is because we have felt able to dispense with the trappings of ecclesiastical diplomacy in order to concentrate upon the theological issues at stake .... This is no attempt to sabotage any agreement -- simply a plea for theological; and scholarly honesty and integrity, in order to establish how much agreement there really is in the first place. .... In this section, the writer approaches the Statement from an evangelical Anglican perspective .... It is thus hoped that this will allow ARCIC II to treat this study as embodying 'observations and criticisms made in a constructive and fraternal spirit, while indicating to evangelical Anglicans where clarification and criticism is appropriate". -- Intro.
Contents: Introduction -- Justification and the European Reformation -- Justification and the Council of Trent -- Justification and the Church of England -- The Ecumenical Debate on Justification to 1983 -- ARCIC II: 'Salvation and the Church' -- For further reading -- Notes.
"This book draws together studies of various aspects of Anglican ecclesiology written over the past 15 years, several of which were originally published as separate articles. All have been revised and updated, and some have been expanded with significant new material. The chapters are intended to remain complete in themselves, and to that end occasional overlaps have been retained" (p. viii). "A brief comment on the term `Anglican ecclesiology' is needed at the outset. Much of this book is concerned specifically with aspects of the ecclesiology of the Church of England. Those are, of course, in turn, aspects of wider Anglican ecclesiology since the Church of England is an Anglican church ... It should not be supposed, however, that these features of the Church of England's ecclesiology are necessarily typical of the Anglican Communion more generally. Some of the chapters examine aspects of the ecclesiology of the Communion as a whole, but they do not attempt to look in detail at the ecclesiology of other individual Anglican churches" (p. x). -- Foreword.
Contents: Foreword dated 25 April 2005 -- The origins and development of the Church of England -- High churchmen, church and state, 1801-38 -- The Anglican Communion: Idea, name and identity -- The Church of England's Declaration of Assent -- Primacy in the Anglican tradition -- Territoriality, communion and parallel episcopates -- Synodical government in the Church of England : History and principle -- Synodical government in the Church of England, illustrated by the case of the ordination of women to the priesthood -- The choosing of bishops in the early Church and in the Church of England : A historical survey -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-141) and index.
"Adrian Hastings saw the main theme of Archbishop Runcie's primacy as the search for an appropriate Anglican style of authority. Avis himself wrote in 1986. 'Dissatisfaction with the Church of England centres on the question of authority'. The lust for infallible authorities seems to grow rather than be outgrown. And it is not only in Anglicanism, or the churches in general, that authority questions are of vital contemporary importance". -- Foreword.
In this book "I attempt to set up a dialogue between biblical and theological views of authority, on the one hand, and what the social sciences and management studies can teach us on the other. .... In this book I am wrestling with the three specific themes of liberating authority, therapeutic leadership and constructive conflict". -- Preface.
Contents: Foreword by the Archbishop of York / John Ebor i.e. Habgood -- Preface dated 4 April 1991 / Paul Avis -- Leadership and Authority in Today's Church -- The Power and the Glory -- Authority and Enlightenment -- The Thirst for Authority -- Sacred Status and the Bureaucratic Church -- Charisma and Spiritual Power -- Open Society: Open Church -- Learning for Leadership -- The Art of Leadership -- Harnessing Conflict -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-238) and index.
The author "ventures to look boldly into the future. He would assume the mantle of a futurologist -- 'What will the Church be like in ten years' time ? What ought the Church to become by then ?' These are no easy questions to answer. Theological, historical, sociological, political, creative perspectives must be all be in given their place in seeking clues. There is the unpredictability of the open seas, and the Church must not seek the comfort and predictability of the well-girt harbour". -- Foreword.
"The Church of England, like all Churches, is experiencing the effects of a variety of changes in its social, cultural, and economic environment, It is not in the grip of a single crisis in the sense that it is passing a decisive turning point in its life. Rather, it is a process of developing or becoming in relation to a perception of its environment which includes a sense of God at work in, through, and for the secular order. The full implications of that theological revelation in outlook, which has influenced both the direction of Western society and the Churches within it, have yet to be worked out in the organizational life of the Church. That is what this book is about". -- Intro.
Contents: Foreword / Donald Cantuar i.e. Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Looking at the Christian Church -- Church in Decline -- Like a Mighty Army: the Laity -- The Corps of Ordained Clergy -- The Parish System -- The Pastoral Ministry -- Church Leadership -- Further Training: a Change Agent -- Members at Work -- Church and Society -- An Alternative Church ? -- Morale -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
A series of essays on the subject of "ministry, particularly in the specific sense of the nature, role and function of those called to lead to the church". -- Intro., p. 28.
Contents divided into two sections: Biblical Perspectives on Ministry -- Historical and Theological Perspectives on Ministry.
Contents: Foreword / Brian Davis -- Introduction : The Call to Serve Dunedin : An Account of the Appointment of Bishop Penny Jamieson / Douglas A. Campbell -- The Prophetic Example : Referentiality or Textuality ? / Maurice E. Andrew -- A Reformational Slogan on Ministry and Paul's Gospel of Grace / Douglas A. Campbell -- The Greatest of These is Love (1 Corinthians 14:34-35) / L. Ann Jervis -- 'For Me to Live is Christ ' : Pauline Spirituality as a Basis for Ministry / Christopher D. Marshall -- Ministry and Church Leadership in the Gospel of John / Ruth B. Edwards -- Ministry in Matthean Christianity / Graham N. Stanton -- Empowering Ministry : The Praxis of Pentecost / Ray S. Anderson -- Bishops and Deacons : Renewing the Offices / Ian Breward -- The Living Spirit : Quaker Concepts of Universal Ministry / Elizabeth Duke -- `In Spirit and in Truth' : Room for the Other : Some Remarks on the Ordination of Women from an Ecumenical Perspective / Irmgard Kindt-Siegwalt -- Ecumenism and the Ordination of Women : Roman Catholic Feminist Reflections / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- The `Ekklesia' of Women : Re-Visioning the Past in Creating a Democratic Future / Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza -- Toward Inclusive Ministry : The Logical Impossibility of Religious and Theological Inclusivism, Pluralism and Relativism / Alan J. Torrance -- The Ministry of Women / Thomas F. Torrance.
"Roger Lloyd, Sub-Dean of Winchester, author of a considerable number of books, and a contributor to the 'Church Times' over many years, died only a few weeks before this book was due to appear. Its deeply personal view now stands as a fitting memorial to a man whose devotion to the Church of England was clear from all he said and died. First published as 'The Church of England in the Twentieth Century' in 1946, in a two-volume edition, it now appears in a completely revised form, brought down to the present day". -- front dust jacket blurb.
Contents divided into three main parts: Part One: 1900-1919 -- Part Two: 1919-1939 -- Part Three: 1939-1965.
Contents: Preface dated All Souls' Day [2 November] 1965 / Roger Lloyd -- The Divine Society -- The Victorian Legacy -- The Field of Battle: 1900-1914 -- The Anglican Array -- New Testament Criticism and the Doctrinal Crisis -- The Anglo-Catholic Movement -- The Church and the People: 1900-1914 -- Three Handmaids of the Church -- 1910: The Significant Year -- The Church in the First World War: 1914-1919 -- The Waste Land after the War -- In the Sphere of Doctrine -- The Results of Theological Principle in the Daily Life of the Church -- The Church of England and the Social Order -- The Church and Housing -- The Parochial Clergy -- Ministries Ancient and Modern -- The Witness of the Cathedrals -- The Search for Christian Unity -- Missions and the Christian Community -- The Nondescript Years -- A New Archbishop in a New World -- A Year of Anglican Stocktaking -- The Church in South Africa -- The English Parish and the Kingdom of God -- The Reconciling Church -- The New Specialized Ministries -- The Ministry of the Cathedral -- One Mission to One World -- An Explosion of Doctrine -- Epilogue: The Bubbling Cauldron -- Index.
Colophon: Printed in Great Britain by Western Printing Services Ltd. Bristol.