Being salt: a theology of an ordered church
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog5732
- Author
- Sumner, George R. (George Robinson), 1955-
- Publication Date
- c2007
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BV 660.3 S89 2007
- Place of Publication
- Eugene OR
- Publisher
- Cascade Books
- Publication Date
- c2007
- Physical Description
- 110 p. ; 20.2 x 12.5 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "[By] George R. Sumner".
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-108) and index.
- "This essay aims to provide a convincing answer to a single question: why ordination for life ? [p. 1] .... In this essay we will operate with the assumption that one cannot understand who the ordained is unless we ask what the Church is, for whose order the priest exists. This question in turn can only be answered as we look at what happens in true preaching and right celebrating. [p. 9-10] .... Why priests for life ? This essay will endeavour to answer the question in three ways, each answer reinforcing its fellows. .... each argument will first back up and answer the prior question: what is the Church ? To be a priest is to be in orders to what ? For this essay assumes that asking and answering the question about the priesthood as a free-standing without backing up this prior, more basic question about the nature of the Church, is to invite misunderstanding." [ p. 14-15] -- Intro.
- Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Priest as Counter-Symbol -- The Priest as the Sign of the Oath -- The Priest as Church in Miniature -- So What ? -- Bibliography -- Scripture Index.
- Author is an Anglican priest and principal of Wycliffe College, Toronto.
- Subjects
- Ordination
- Ordination - Anglican Communion
- Pastoral theology
- Priesthood - Anglican Communion
- Church - Anglican Communion
- ISBN
- 978-1-55635-091-7
- Call Number
- BV 660.3 S89 2007
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)