"Edited by Andrew Wingate, Kevin Ward, Carrie Pemberton [and] Wilson Sitshebo"..
Includes bibliographical references.
A collection of 75 essays by 86 contributors "compiled by the Centre for Anglican Communion Studies at the Selly Oak Colleges" -- Foreword, p. v.
Contents are divided into six main sections: "" -- The life of the church -- The Church in society -- Mission of the Church -- The Church and the future and intended to "show to fellow-Anglicans and ecumenical friends the breadth of experience and reflection taking place throughout the worldwide Communion." -- Intro. p. 1.
Contents of introductory section: Foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury / George L. Carey -- The Contributors -- Editors' Introduction / Andrew Wingate, Kevin Ward, Carrie Pemberton, Wilson Sitshebo -- Salvation and other faiths: An Anglican perspective / Andrew Wingate -- The development of Anglicanism as a global communion / Kevin Ward -- Five years in: where are women in the Church of England ? / Carrie Pemberton and Christina Rees -- How African Anglicans deal with death, funerals and bereavement / Wilson T. Sitshebo.
Contents of Section One: The Church in worship, spirituality and theology: African Anglicans and/or Pentecostals / Allan Anderson -- First Nations spirituality and the Anglican Church in Canada / Joyce Carlson -- Where God still walks in the garden: religious orders and the development of the Anglican Church in the South Pacific / Richard A. Carter -- Celtic spirituality: a contribution to the worldwide Anglican Communion ? / Esther de Waal -- An Anglican's view of the Bible in an East African context / Griphus Gakuru -- Inclusivity, language and worship / Kwok Pui-lan -- Anglican Christianity and communication of the gospel through the arts in Myanmar / Edward Saw Marks -- Death has come to reveal the faith: spirituality in the Episcopal Church of the Sudan amidst civil conflict / Marc Nikkel -- An African Anglican's view of salvation / John S. Pobee -- Anglican spirituality and worship among the Maori people / Tiki Raumati.
Contents of Section Two: The life of the Church: Anglicanism in Jerusalem / Riah Abu El-Assal -- Anglicanism and the Aladura Churches in Nigeria / Afe Adogame and Akin Omoyajowo -- L'Eglise Anglicane du Congo: une province francophone / Georges Titre Ande -- Jubilee: a call to renew the Church of South India after 50 years / J. Russell Chandran -- The role of the Archbishop of Canterbury within the Anglican Communion / Andrew Deuchar -- Why have an Anglican Church on mainland Europe ? / John Hind -- Youth Exchanges: opportunities for young people to experience the Anglican Communion / Paula Hollingsworth -- Alternative patterns for ministry: North and Central America / John L. Kater, Jr. -- The experience of African Americans within ECUSA and their contributions to the past, present and future / Harold T. Lewis -- Being Anglican in a pluralist society: a Canadian perspective / Gordon Light -- Anglicans in the non-English world of South America / Jaci Maraschin -- Australia: the last of lands / James Minchin -- 'Anglicane ? Qu'est-ce que c'est ?': an experience of francophone Anglicans / Tim Naish -- Anglican models for theological education in Southern Africa / Livingstone Lubabalu Ngewu and Luke Lungile Pato -- Anglicanism in West Malaysia / Eddie Ong -- Anglicanism and the Church of South India / P. Victor Premasagar -- New wine, old wineskins: a look at possibilities for a rural diocese in a changing society / Oswald Swartz -- Reflections from ecumenical partners: A Roman Catholic view: the Anglican Church: Federation or Communion ? / Harcourt Blackett -- A Methodist looks at worldwide Anglicanism / Diane Clutterbuck -- A Lutheran looks at worldwide Anglicanism / Aasulv Lande.
Contents of Section Three: The church in society: An Anglican view of ecological issues in the Australian context / Christabel Chamarette -- Minority ethnic Anglicans in Britain / Glynne Gordon-Carter -- A South African reflection on the issue of homosexuality in the Anglican Communion / James GaOfenngwe Keetile -- 'A sanctuary and a light' ?: The Scottish Churches respond to violence against women / Lesley Macdonald -- Church and state in Lesotho: reflections of a retired bishop / Philip Mokuku -- Resisting 'vumilia' theology: the Church and violence against women in Kenya / Esther Mombo -- A Structural Adjustment Programme and its effect on the Zambian people and the Zambian Church / Robert Mumbi -- Male circumcision ('imbalu') among the Bagisu of Uganda and the mission of the church / Beatrice Musindi -- Spirituality and sexuality: Christians and sexual behaviour today / Michael Nazir-Ali -- Youth and the Anglican Church in Madagascar / J. Bruno Ndriamahafahana -- The Church as a source of identity: reflection from the Caribbean / Las Newman -- Polygamy in the African Church today: a Kenyan woman's perspective / Edith Njoki Njiri -- Township women united in prayer / Martha Nkoane -- Refugees and worldwide Anglicanism / M. Louise Pirouet -- Women within Church and society in India / Krupaveni Prakasha Rao and Julie Lipp-Nathaniel -- Living as a minority in Pakistan / Mano Ramalshah -- The healing ministry of the Anglican Church: medical work through institutions / Fannie H. Storr -- Childhood challenges: key issues affecting children and young people throughout the Anglican Communion / Sally Thompson -- Working with women in the Congo / Emma Wild -- Corrymeela: healing the division / Trevor Williams.
Contents of Section Four: Mission in the Church: Dalits and salvation / J. Aruldoss -- Anglican educational institutions and the mission of the Church / Pervez Deen and Rina Deen -- Towards a wider world: partnership and the Church of Bangladesh / Martin Heath -- 'Called to one Hope: the Gospel in diverse cultures': reflections from the perspective of the Church in Wales / Enid R. Morgan -- The Anglican debate in West Africa on Christian-Muslim relations / Ken Okeke -- Evangelism n the Anglican Communion: an overview / Cyril Okorocha -- The mission of the Anglican Church among the indigenous peoples of northern Argentina / Helena Oliver de Wallis -- The Church in Sri Lanka and relations with other faiths / Jayasiri Peiris -- Anglicans and inter-faith relations: a historical retrospect / Israel Selvanayagam.
Contents of Section Five: The Church and the future: All about Eve: woman of Africa / Brigalia Bam -- A vision for theological education in North America / Martha Horne -- Women, Church and ministry in the coming decade / Penny Jamieson -- Beyond revival: a proposal for mission in the Church of Uganda into the third millennium / Amos Kasibante -- The Nippon Sei Ko Kai today and its future task / Samuel Isamu Koshiishi -- A vision for the religious orders in the Anglican Communion in the next century / Una Kroll -- The Mothers' Union of the future / edited by Barbara Laws and Louise Vincer -- A vision for a Church in jubilee: the Anglican Church and social justice in the next millennium / Njongonkulu Ndungane -- The theological and mission tasks facing Hong Kong Anglicans in the years of reunification with China after 1997 / Michael Poon -- Revisioning our Church as a community of belonging: a task for all / Peter B. Price -- The future of the mission agency / Diana Witts -- A vision for the Anglican contribution in the minority context of Korea over the next decade / Jeremiah Guen Seok Yang -- Afterword / George L. Carey.
OTCH Note: Contributors include two Canadians: Joyce Carlson and Gordon Light.
"Edited by Andrew Wingate, Kevin Ward, Carrie Pemberton [and] Wilson Sitshebo".
Foreword by George L. Carey the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Includes bibliographical references.
A collection of 75 essays by 86 contributors "compiled by the Centre for Anglican Communion Studies at the Selly Oak Colleges" (Foreword, p. v).
Contents are divided into five main sections: "The Church in worship, spirituality and theology" -- The life of the church -- The Church in society -- Mission of the Church -- The Church and the future and intended to "show to fellow-Anglicans and ecumenical friends the breadth of experience and reflection taking place throughout the worldwide Communion." -- Intro. p. 1.
Contents of introductory section include: Salvation and other faiths : An Anglican perspective / Andrew Wingate -- The development of Anglicanism as a global communion / Kevin Ward -- Five years in : where are women in the Church of England / Carrie Pemberton and Christina Rees -- How African Anglicans deal with death, funerals and bereavement / Wilson T. Sitshebo.
Contents of section one include: African Anglicans and/or Pentecostals / Allan Anderson -- First Nations spirituality and the Anglican Church in Canada / Joyce Carlson -- Where God still walks in the garden : religious orders and the development of the Anglican Church in the South Pacific / Richard A. Carter -- Celtic spirituality : a contribution to the worldwide Anglican Communion ? / Esther de Waal -- An Anglican's view of the Bible in an East African context / Griphus Gakuru -- Inclusivity, language and worship / Kwok Pui-lan -- Anglican Christianity and communication of the gospel through the arts in Myanmar / Edward Saw Marks -- Death has come to reveal the faith : spirituality in the Episcopal Church of the Sudan amidst civil conflict / Marc Nikkel -- An African Anglican's view of salvation / John S. Pobee -- Anglican spirituality and worship among the Maori people / Tiki Raumati.
Contents of section two include: Anglicanism in Jerusalem / Riah Abu El-Assal -- Anglicanism and the Aladura Churches in Nigeria / Afe Adogame and Akin Omoyajowo -- L'Eglise Anglicane du Congo: une province francophone / Georges Titre Ande -- Jubilee: a call to renew the Church of South India after 50 years / J. Russell Chandran -- The role of the Archbishop of Canterbury within the Anglican Communion / Andrew Deuchar -- Why have an Anglican Church on mainland Europe ? / John Hind -- Youth exchanges: opportunities for young people to experience the Anglican Communion / Paula Hollingsworth -- Alternative patterns for ministry: North and Central America / John L. Kater, Jr. -- The experience of African Americans within ECUSA and their contributions to the past, present and future / Harold T. Lewis -- Being Anglican in a pluralist society / Gordon Light -- Anglicans in the non-English world of South America / Jaci Maraschin -- Australia: the last of lands / James Minchin -- "Anglicane ? Qu'est-ce que c'est ?": an experience of francophone Anglicans / Tim Naish -- Anglican models for theological education in Southern Africa / Livingstone Lubabalu Ngewu and Luke Lungile Pato -- Anglicanism in West Malaysia / Eddie Ong -- Anglicanism and the Church of South India / P. Victor Premasagar -- New wine, old wineskins: a look at possibilities for a rural diocese in a changing society / Oswald Swartz -- Reflections from ecumenical partners: A Roman Catholic view: the Anglican Church: federation or communion ? / Harcourt Blackett -- A Methodist looks at worldwide Anglicanism / Diane Clutterbuck -- A Lutheran looks at worldwide Anglicanism / Aasulv Lande.
Contents of section three include: An Anglican view of ecological issues in the Australian context / Christabel Chamarette -- Minority ethnic Anglicans in Britain / Glynne Gordon-Carter -- A South Africa reflection on the issue of homosexuality in the Anglican Communion / James GaOfenngwe Keetile -- "A sanctuary and a light" ? : The Scottish Churches respond to violence against women / Lesley Macdonald -- Church and state in Lesotho: reflections of a retired bishop / Philip Mokuku -- Resisting vumilia theology: the Church and violence against women in Kenya / Esther Mombo -- A Structural Adjustment Programme and its effect on the Zambian people and the Zambian Church / Robert Mumbi -- Male circumcision (imablu) among the Bagisu of Uganda and the mission of the church / Beatrice Musindi -- Spirituality and sexuality: Christians and sexual behaviour today / Michael Nazir-Ali -- Youth and the Anglican Church in Madagascar / J. Bruno Ndriamahafahana -- The Church as a source of identity: reflection from the Caribbean / Las Newman -- Polygamy in the African Church today: a Kenyan woman's perspective / Edith Njoki Njiri -- Township women united in prayer / Martha Nkoane -- Refugees and worldwide Anglicanism / M. Louise Pirouet -- Women within Church and society in India / Krupaveni Prakasha Rao and Julie Lipp-Nathaniel -- Living as a minority in Pakistan / Mano Ramalshah -- The healing ministry of the Anglican Church: medical work through institutions / Fannie H. Storr -- Childhood challenges: key issues affecting children and young people throughout the Anglican Communion / Sally Thompson -- Working with women in the Congo / Emma Wild -- Corrymeela: healing the division / Trevor Williams.
Contents of section four include: All about Eve: woman of Africa / Brigalia Bam -- A vision for theological education in North America / Martha Horne -- Women, Church and ministry in the coming decade / Penny Jamieson -- Beyond revival: a proposal for mission in the Church of Uganda into the third millennium / Amos Kasibante -- The Nippon Sei Ko Kai today and its future task / Samuel Isamu Koshiishi -- A vision for the religious orders in the Anglican Communion in the next century / Una Kroll -- The Mothers' Union of the future / edited by Barbara Laws and Louise Vincer -- A vision for a Church in jubilee: the Anglican Church and social justice in the next millennium / Njongonkulu Ndungane -- The theological and mission tasks facing Hong Kong Anglicans in the years of reunification with China after 1997 / Michael Poon -- Revisioning our Church as a community of belonging: a task for all / Peter B. Price -- The future of the mission agency / Diana Witts -- A vision for the Anglican contribution in the minority context of Korea over the next decade / Jeremiah Guen Seok Yang -- Afterword / George L. Carey.
Contributors include two Canadians: Joyce Carlson and Gordon Light.
"Edited by Andrew Wingate, Kevin Ward, Carrie Pemberton [and] Wilson Sitshebo".
Foreword by George L. Carey the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Includes bibliographical references.
A collection of 75 essays by 86 contributors "compiled by the Centre for Anglican Communion Studies at the Selly Oak Colleges" (Foreword, p. v).
Contents are divided into five main sections: "The Church in worship, spirituality and theology" -- The life of the church -- The Church in society -- Mission of the Church -- The Church and the future and intended to "show to fellow-Anglicans and ecumenical friends the breadth of experience and reflection taking place throughout the worldwide Communion." -- Intro. p. 1.
Contents of introductory section include: Salvation and other faiths : An Anglican perspective / Andrew Wingate -- The development of Anglicanism as a global communion / Kevin Ward -- Five years in : where are women in the Church of England / Carrie Pemberton and Christina Rees -- How African Anglicans deal with death, funerals and bereavement / Wilson T. Sitshebo.
Contents of section one include: African Anglicans and/or Pentecostals / Allan Anderson -- First Nations spirituality and the Anglican Church in Canada / Joyce Carlson -- Where God still walks in the garden : religious orders and the development of the Anglican Church in the South Pacific / Richard A. Carter -- Celtic spirituality : a contribution to the worldwide Anglican Communion ? / Esther de Waal -- An Anglican's view of the Bible in an East African context / Griphus Gakuru -- Inclusivity, language and worship / Kwok Pui-lan -- Anglican Christianity and communication of the gospel through the arts in Myanmar / Edward Saw Marks -- Death has come to reveal the faith : spirituality in the Episcopal Church of the Sudan amidst civil conflict / Marc Nikkel -- An African Anglican's view of salvation / John S. Pobee -- Anglican spirituality and worship among the Maori people / Tiki Raumati.
Contents of section two include: Anglicanism in Jerusalem / Riah Abu El-Assal -- Anglicanism and the Aladura Churches in Nigeria / Afe Adogame and Akin Omoyajowo -- L'Eglise Anglicane du Congo: une province francophone / Georges Titre Ande -- Jubilee: a call to renew the Church of South India after 50 years / J. Russell Chandran -- The role of the Archbishop of Canterbury within the Anglican Communion / Andrew Deuchar -- Why have an Anglican Church on mainland Europe ? / John Hind -- Youth exchanges: opportunities for young people to experience the Anglican Communion / Paula Hollingsworth -- Alternative patterns for ministry: North and Central America / John L. Kater, Jr. -- The experience of African Americans within ECUSA and their contributions to the past, present and future / Harold T. Lewis -- Being Anglican in a pluralist society / Gordon Light -- Anglicans in the non-English world of South America / Jaci Maraschin -- Australia: the last of lands / James Minchin -- "Anglicane ? Qu'est-ce que c'est ?": an experience of francophone Anglicans / Tim Naish -- Anglican models for theological education in Southern Africa / Livingstone Lubabalu Ngewu and Luke Lungile Pato -- Anglicanism in West Malaysia / Eddie Ong -- Anglicanism and the Church of South India / P. Victor Premasagar -- New wine, old wineskins: a look at possibilities for a rural diocese in a changing society / Oswald Swartz -- Reflections from ecumenical partners: A Roman Catholic view: the Anglican Church: federation or communion ? / Harcourt Blackett -- A Methodist looks at worldwide Anglicanism / Diane Clutterbuck -- A Lutheran looks at worldwide Anglicanism / Aasulv Lande.
Contents of section three include: An Anglican view of ecological issues in the Australian context / Christabel Chamarette -- Minority ethnic Anglicans in Britain / Glynne Gordon-Carter -- A South Africa reflection on the issue of homosexuality in the Anglican Communion / James GaOfenngwe Keetile -- "A sanctuary and a light" ? : The Scottish Churches respond to violence against women / Lesley Macdonald -- Church and state in Lesotho: reflections of a retired bishop / Philip Mokuku -- Resisting vumilia theology: the Church and violence against women in Kenya / Esther Mombo -- A Structural Adjustment Programme and its effect on the Zambian people and the Zambian Church / Robert Mumbi -- Male circumcision (imablu) among the Bagisu of Uganda and the mission of the church / Beatrice Musindi -- Spirituality and sexuality: Christians and sexual behaviour today / Michael Nazir-Ali -- Youth and the Anglican Church in Madagascar / J. Bruno Ndriamahafahana -- The Church as a source of identity: reflection from the Caribbean / Las Newman -- Polygamy in the African Church today: a Kenyan woman's perspective / Edith Njoki Njiri -- Township women united in prayer / Martha Nkoane -- Refugees and worldwide Anglicanism / M. Louise Pirouet -- Women within Church and society in India / Krupaveni Prakasha Rao and Julie Lipp-Nathaniel -- Living as a minority in Pakistan / Mano Ramalshah -- The healing ministry of the Anglican Church: medical work through institutions / Fannie H. Storr -- Childhood challenges: key issues affecting children and young people throughout the Anglican Communion / Sally Thompson -- Working with women in the Congo / Emma Wild -- Corrymeela: healing the division / Trevor Williams.
Contents of section four include: All about Eve: woman of Africa / Brigalia Bam -- A vision for theological education in North America / Martha Horne -- Women, Church and ministry in the coming decade / Penny Jamieson -- Beyond revival: a proposal for mission in the Church of Uganda into the third millennium / Amos Kasibante -- The Nippon Sei Ko Kai today and its future task / Samuel Isamu Koshiishi -- A vision for the religious orders in the Anglican Communion in the next century / Una Kroll -- The Mothers' Union of the future / edited by Barbara Laws and Louise Vincer -- A vision for a Church in jubilee: the Anglican Church and social justice in the next millennium / Njongonkulu Ndungane -- The theological and mission tasks facing Hong Kong Anglicans in the years of reunification with China after 1997 / Michael Poon -- Revisioning our Church as a community of belonging: a task for all / Peter B. Price -- The future of the mission agency / Diana Witts -- A vision for the Anglican contribution in the minority context of Korea over the next decade / Jeremiah Guen Seok Yang -- Afterword / George L. Carey.
Contributors include two Canadians: Joyce Carlson and Gordon Light.
"First edition published 1989. Second edition published 2002". -- verso of t.-p.
Includes bibliography (p. 357-381) and index.
"A fully revised, updated and substantially expanded edition of a seminal work ... in the history of Anglicanism. Paul Avis describes and interprets the Anglican understanding of the Christian Church from the Reformation to the present day. He presents the development of Anglican identity and ecclesiology in its historical context, focusing particularly on Anglican engagement with the Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions. This book also provide substantial accounts of the major Anglican theologians, from Richard Hooker to modern writers. In this new edition, Avis includes discussions of the influence of evangelical theology and reflected on the integrity of Anglicanism for the future. [It] is an influential work with considerable strategic importance for the Anglican Communion and the ecumenical movement". -- back cover.
Contents divided into three main parts: Part One : The Sixteenth Century: The Formation of Anglican Ecclesiology -- Part Two: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Anglicanism Erastian or Apostolic ? -- Part Three: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Making of Modern Anglicanism.
Contents: Preface to Revised and Expanded Edition dated June 2001 / Paul Avis -- Part One : The Sixteenth Century: The Formation of Anglican Ecclesiology -- 1. The English Reformers and the Christian Church -- 2. Architects of Anglican Ecclesiology: Hooker and Field -- Part Two: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Anglicanism Erastian or Apostolic ? -- 3. An Anglican Consensus -- 4. The Early Anglican Liberal Protestants -- 5. The Early Anglican Liberal Catholics -- 6. Exemplars of the High Church Tradition -- 7. Methodism and Evangelicalism -- Part Three: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Making of Modern Anglicanism -- 8. The Church in Danger Again -- 9. The High Church Heritage -- 10. The Reformation Under Attack -- 11. Keble and Pusey: Retreat from the Reformation -- 12. The Anglican Newman -- 13. Defenders of the Reformation: The Nineteenth-Century Liberal Anglicans -- 14. F.D. Maurice -- 15. The Church and Salvation in Modern Anglican Theology -- 16. Anglican Ecclesiology in the Late Twentieth Century: A Bibliographical Commentary -- 17. Towards an Authentic Paradigm for Anglicanism -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names.
Colophon: Typeset by Waverley Typesetters, Galashiels. Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books, Bodmin.
Since the sixteenth century Roman Catholics and Protestants have been deeply divided over many theological issues, but none more than their understanding of Salvation and Justification. It is, therefore, all the more remarkable that the Second Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC-II), at the conclusion of its fourth meeting this week could issue a statement declaring:
"The Commission submits that any outstanding differences of interpretation or ecclesiological emphasis (on these topics) are not such as can justify continuing separation between Anglicans and Roman Catholics."
The members of ARCIC-II were chosen by the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury. There are two Canadian members, the Rt. Rev. J.A. Baycroft, Anglican Suffragan Bishop of Ottawa and the Rev. Father Jean Tillard, O.P., also of Ottawa. The Commission met from August 26 to September 4 at St. Michael's College in Llandaff, Wales. Reports from ARCIC-II are not official policy of either Church, but are submitted to the authorities of the two Communions for consideration, eventual publication and wide study throughout all levels of the Church.
The Llandaff meeting also considered future agenda for the Commission. These include a paper called "Steps Towards Unity", a study of the stages by which Anglicans and Roman Catholics might move closer together on the basis of the degree of unity that exists between them now. They also received and discussed a paper on renewing and restoring Communion between the two Churches.
One of the major tasks that lies before ARCIC-II is that of studying all that hinders progress towards mutual recognition of ministries between the two Churches. As is well known the ordination of women in some parts of the Anglican Communion is seen by the Roman Catholic Church as a serious obstacle to such progress. For this reason the Commission received and discussed two papers which considered the question of how the Commission should deal with this issue in the context of its work on mutual recognition of ministries. It is clear in the next few years the two related issues of steps towards unity and reconciliation of ministries will be central to the Commission's agenda.
The Co-Chairmen of ARCIC-II are Bishop Cormac Murphy-O'Connor of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton in Ireland and Bishop Mark Santer of Kensington, England.
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For more information, please contact:
The Rev. Canon Richard J. Berryman, Media Officer, The Anglican Church of Canada
"The Vatican's long-awaited response to the report, 'Salvation and the Church', released by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission [ARCIC II] 18 months ago, has cast doubt on the success of further unity talks between the two communions. The document, welcomed by Anglican bishops at the Lambeth Conference last summer [1988] as a historic one, has now been described by the Vatican as vague and weak". "Although the Vatican gives general approval, it claims there are serious failures in the document". "The divergences which, in the light of this document still exist between the Catholic church and the Anglican Communion, principally concern aspects of ecclesiology and of sacramental doctrine". "The judgment will be seen as a devastating blow to a breakthrough in relations between the two communions, according to Bishop George Carey of Bath and Wells, chairman of the Church of England's faith and order commission which advises archbishops on ecumenical affairs". "In Montreal, Rev. Thomas Ryan, CSP, director of the Canadian Centre for Ecumenism, said the Roman Catholic response is an indication that every effort is being made to assure that the foundation for a future, reunited church are being laid solidly and with painstaking care".
"The Vatican's response to the document on salvation produced by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission [ARCIC] has drawn a pall over the dialogue. Members of the 28-member commission proclaimed two years ago that they had resolved a disagreement over the meaning of salvation -- one of the major disputes that brought about the Protestant Reformation". "But the response has left ARCIC talks at a crossroad. The congregation [of the Doctrine of the Faith] speaks authoritatively for the Roman Catholic Church. Unless it is satisfied, agreement cannot be achieved. There is ample reason for Anglicans to be disillusioned". "The tenor of the Vatican's response is that of a headmaster returning homework, with the comment, 'Could do better', says Bishop George Carey who advises the Church of England on ecumenical affairs".
Includes bibliographical references and bibliography: p. 40.
"In July 1977 an Open Letter was sent to every member of the Anglican diocesan episcopate and signed by about 130 members of the Anglican church who represented the evangelical tradition of that church. ... the contents of the Letter concerned a subject about which Anglican evangelicals had not spoken in public hitherto in such a collective way: the growing contact between the Anglican church and the Roman Catholic church. While welcoming generally the move towards more positive and Christian relationships between the two bodies, the Letter expressed concerns for a deeper investigation of certain areas which the signatories saw as both important enough to warrant it and in which there seemed to be disagreement that could not be overcome without it. Among the four specified topics, justification-by-faith-through-grace-alone was mentioned. It is the intention of this study to look at that issue," -- Intro.
Contents: Introduction -- Justification and the New Testament -- Justification and Church Disunity -- Justification and Church Reunion: (A) The Achievement of Hans Kung -- Justification and Church Reunion: (B) The Debate Since Kung -- Retrospect and Prospect -- For Further Reading.
Includes bibliographical references and bibliography: p. 40.
"In July 1977 an Open Letter was sent to every member of the Anglican diocesan episcopate and signed by about 130 members of the Anglican church who represented the evangelical tradition of that church. ... the contents of the Letter concerned a subject about which Anglican evangelicals had not spoken in public hitherto in such a collective way: the growing contact between the Anglican church and the Roman Catholic church. While welcoming generally the move towards more positive and Christian relationships between the two bodies, the Letter expressed concerns for a deeper investigation of certain areas which the signatories saw as both important enough to warrant it and in which there seemed to be disagreement that could not be overcome without it. Among the four specified topics, justification-by-faith-through-grace-alone was mentioned. It is the intention of this study to look at that issue," -- Intro.
Contents: Introduction -- Justification and the New Testament -- Justification and Church Disunity -- Justification and Church Reunion: (A) The Achievement of Hans Kung -- Justification and Church Reunion: (B) The Debate Since Kung -- Retrospect and Prospect -- For Further Reading.
"This volume is an enlarged version of the collection of papers originally published in The Ecumenical Review, Vol. XXV, No. 2, April 1973." -- Preface.
"The nine papers brought together here, with this introduction, are the fruit of cooperation between a number of friends who, while committed to differing religions and ideological persuasions, have joined in the common exploration of a theme we all feel to be vital and urgent: what is the ultimate goal of human life ? Christians here speak of 'salvation'. The initial reason for compiling this collection of essays was the world conference on mission and evangelism held at Bangkok from 29 December 1972 to 8 January 1973 on the theme 'Salvation Today'." -- Intro., p. [vii].
Contents: Preface dated Geneva, September 1974 / S.J.S. -- Living faiths and ultimate goals : introducing a discussion / S.J. Samartha -- The meaning on 'moksha' in contemporary Hindu thought and life / K. Sivaraman -- Buddhist 'Nirvana' : its significance in contemporary thought and life / Masao Abe -- Redemption : a contemporary Jewish understanding / Zvi Yaron -- What does salvation mean to Christians today ? / David Jenkins -- Unity and alienation in Islam / Hasan Askari -- A Marxist view of liberation / Ajit Roy -- New China and salvation history : a methodological enquiry / Choan-seng Song -- Liberation for social justice : the common struggle of Christians and Marxists in Latin America / Julio de Santa Ana -- Some reflections on African experience of salvation today / John Mbiti.
Colophon: Printed by La Concorde, Lausanne (Switzerland).
OTCH Note: Nine essays by various authors including two Anglican contributors: David Jenkins, Anglican Bishop of Durham, and John Mbiti, a Kenyan Anglican priest.