Fear or freedom ? : why a warring church must change
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog8953
- Publication Date
- 2008
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BX 5005 F4 B3 2008
- Edition
- [1st ed.]
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh and London
- Publisher
- Shoving Leopard / Ekklesia
- Publication Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- ix, 139 [+2] p. ; 23 x 15 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "Edited by Simon Barrow".
- "In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies. Black and white, rich and poor, gay and straight -- all belong. When we start to live as brothers and sisters and to recognise our interdependence, we become fully human. Our world is facing many problems: poverty, HIV and AIDS (a devastating pandemic), environmental threat and war. God must be weeping looking at some of the atrocities that we commit against one another. In the face of all of that, our church, especially the Anglican church at this time, is almost obsessed with questions of human sexuality. Yet there are so many issues crying out for concern and application by the church of its resources. .... I beg all church members, in our Lord's name, agree to disagree, but do all this as members of one family". -- Preface.
- "Pick up a newspaper, switch on the TV or log in to the Internet these days and it won't take you long to discover an argument involving religion. One of the most unpleasant, at least in terms of its overheated rhetoric and the personal acrimony it has occasioned, has been the long-running dispute within global Anglicanism -- and many other Christian confessions, too -- over sexuality, authority and the interpretations of the Bible. .... This collection of essays aims to probe behind and around these 'Anglican wars', not because this particular church deserves attention above others, but because the issues involved illustrate some important fault lines in Christianity as it enters an era which many of us in the West are calling, for want of a better term, 'post-Christendom'." -- Intro., p. 1.
- Contents divided into five main parts: Part One: Inspiring -- Part Two: Questioning -- Part Three: Hoping -- Part Four: Learning -- Part Five: Changing.
- Contents: Acknowledgements -- Preface dated 28 May 2008 / Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu -- Introduction: Fear or freedom ? dated Pentecost 2008 / Simon Barrow -- How Christianity can kill or cure / Simon Barrow -- Choosing to be a house or a ship / Glynn Cardy -- Opening ourselves to wisdom / Savi Hensman -- Why do these Christians hate one another / Simon Barrow -- Is our lack of integrity losing the young ? / Tim Nafziger -- What does it mean to be hospitable ? / Deirdre Good -- Being church in the freedom of God / Savi Hensman -- Jesus and the transformation of family / Deirdre Good -- Sexuality as an ecumenical challenge / Simon Barrow -- In search of textual healing / Chris Rowland -- Listening and learning scripturally / Savi Hensman -- Will Rowan Williams rescue us from idiocy ? / Simon Barrow -- The God who meets us in the flesh / David Wood -- Being consumed again by love / Simon Barrow -- Reconverting the church / Jonathan Bartley -- Notes on contributors -- Further reading -- Online resources -- About Ekklesia -- About Shoving Leopard -- [Book Advertisements].
- Added Entry
- Barrow, Simon
- Bartley, Jonathan, 1971-
- Cardy, Glynn (Glynn Kenneth), 1959-
- Good, Deirdre J. (Deirdre Joy)
- Hensman, Savi (Savitri), 1962-
- Nafziger, Tim
- Rowland, Christopher (Christopher Charles), 1947-
- Tutu, Desmond M. (Desmond Mpilo), 1931-
- Wood, David (David Graeme), 1953-
- Ekklesia
- Subjects
- Conflict management - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Anglican Communion - Parties and movements
- Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Christianity - 21st century
- Hospitality - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Family - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Bible - Criticism, interpretation, etc. - Anglican Communion
- Inclusivity - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Williams, Rowan D. (Rowan Douglas), 1950-
- Lord's Supper - Anglican Communion
- ISBN
- 978-1-905565-14-6
- Call Number
- BX 5005 F4 B3 2008
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)