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“We thank you for the inspiration and strength
That you have given to Madiba,
Enabling him, over so many years, to draw out the best in others,
rousing us always, by word and example,
to seek the highest good for every child of this nation.”
So prayed Archbishop Thabo Makgoba with Nelson Mandela in his home in 2009
at the request of Graca Machel. This marked the start of an unusual relationship
between southern Africa’s Anglican leader and Mandela in his quietening years.
Join Makgoba in his journey towards faith, from his boyhood in Alex as the son of
a ZCC pastor to Bishopscourt and praying with Mandela. He shares his feelings
about his pastoral approach to the world icon, and how they influenced his
thinking on ministering to church and nation in the current era. What did praying
with those nearest and dearest to Mandela mean? What was his spirituality? In
trying to answer these questions, Makgoba opens a window on South Africa’s
spiritual make-up and life.
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Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, where he lives
alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless,
ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey - and his two dachshunds, Cosmo
and Hilda. When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in
the church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as
lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to
destroying the apparent calm of the village. And then Anthony
Bowness - cousin to Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton - is
found dead at the back of the church. As the police moves in and
the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and
keep his community together... and catch a killer.
Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II,
these nine addresses show the beloved author and theologian
bringing hope and courage in a time of great doubt. Addressing some
of the most difficult issues we face in our day-to-day lives, C.S.
Lewis's ardent and timeless words provide an unparalleled path to
greater spiritual understanding. Considered by many to be Lewis's
finest sermon of all, and his most moving address, 'The Weight of
Glory' extols a compassionate vision of Christianity an dincludes
lucid and compelling discussions on faith. Also included in this
volume are "Transposition," "On Forgiveness," "Why I Am Not a
Pacifist," and "Learning in War-Time".
Desmond Tutu is one of the most respected and influential leaders
in South Africa and the world. From his modest beginnings in dusty
townships, during the time spent as a teacher and his early days in
the priesthood, to the days when he led the Anglican church in
South Africa, he has consistently fought for his goal of a
democratic alliance. This book tells the story of how, throughout
his life, Tutu, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, has
called for peace, love and brotherhood of all people. He has lived
according to the principles of ubuntu: "that gift Africans have for
the world, which says that a person can be a person only through
other persons".
His story shows his warmth, his intelligence, his energy and his
sense of humour and, above all, how he stuck to what he believed
against all odds. Tutu will always be remembered as one of the
great champions of humanity. Written in an entertaining style, this
book draws on extensive research and interviews with Tutu himself
to capture the essence of the man. They Fought for Freedom tells
the life stories of southern African leaders who struggled for
freedom and justice. In spite of the important roles they played in
the history of southern Africa, most of these leaders have been
largely ignored by the history books. The series tells their
stories in an entertaining manner, in clear language and aims to
restore them to their rightful place in history.
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A rich and powerful exploration of desire, sin and redemption, by
"our best chronicler of the rewards and pitfalls of present-day
faith" [PHILIP PULLMAN] "A novel that probes any number of
aggressive varieties of moralism, while testing the reader's own
moral alertness for rigour, realism and generosity. An engrossing,
three-dimensional, grown-up narrative." ROWAN WILLIAMS "An
irresistibly readable, thoughtful and characteristically witty
examination of the quandaries and compromises faced by the Church
of England in an era of decline . . . I loved this book for its
lightness of touch about serious subjects and for dialogue that
glitters like clashing rapiers." MIRANDA SEYMOUR As a woman in the
early 1980s, Clarissa Phipps is unable to pursue her vocation to
the priesthood. Instead, she joins the BBC's religious affairs
department, where she is sent to interview celebrated artist,
Seward Wemlock, about the panels he is painting for an ancient
Cheshire church. "A serious and important writer" ROSE TREMAIN
Thirty years on, Clarissa, now rector of that same church, chances
upon Brian, the chief bell-ringer and husband of her closest
friend, fondling fifteen-year-old David. Dismissing David's claim
that they are in love, Clarissa is obliged to act. Will she choose
friendship or conscience, sympathy or her official duty of care?
The fallout from that choice forces her to reflect on the original
controversy over Wemlock's panels and her concerns about his
relationship with the teenagers who modelled for Adam and Eve. Had
she acted on the whispers that reached her at the time, how many
lives - her own included - would have turned out differently? The
Choice is a rich and powerful exploration of desire, sin and
redemption, questioning whether it's possible, let alone prudent,
to separate the art from the artist. It examines the fault lines in
both religious and secular society, from the AIDS crisis and the
struggle for women's ordination in the 1980s to the culture wars of
today. Richly comic and deeply compassionate, The Choice is a
remarkable synthesis of the sacred and profane. "At a time when
British fiction has never been more timorous about tackling novels
of ideas, Michael Arditti has produced one worthy of Iris Murdoch
and Graham Greene. Brilliantly ambiguous, waspishly witty and
thoroughly enjoyable, this is Michael Arditti's own masterpiece to
date" AMANDA CRAIG
IVP Readers' Choice Award The Book of Common Prayer (1662) is one
of the most beloved liturgical texts in the Christian church, and
remains a definitive expression of Anglican identity today. It is
still widely used around the world, in public worship and private
devotion, and is revered for both its linguistic and theological
virtues. But the classic text of the 1662 prayer book presents
several difficulties for contemporary users, especially those
outside the Church of England. The 1662 Book of Common Prayer:
International Edition gently updates the text for contemporary use.
State prayers of England have been replaced with prayers that can
be used regardless of nation or polity. Obscure words and phrases
have been modestly revised--but always with a view towards
preserving the prayer book's own cadence. Finally, a selection of
treasured prayers from later Anglican tradition has been appended.
The 1662 prayer book remains a vital resource today, both in the
Anglican Communion and for Christians everywhere. Here it is
presented for continued use for today's Christians throughout the
world.
If God means for us to save sex for marriage, why doesn't he just
zap us with sexuality on our wedding night? Why do most of us
experience sexual feelings throughout our adult lives, not just in
the safe confines of marriage? Is limiting marriage to the union of
a man and a woman anything but outdated prejudice? What is our
sexuality actually for? Today's culture overwhelmingly tells us
that sex is essential for human flourishing. Far too often the
church perpetuates the same message - as long as you are married.
But far from being liberating, this idolising of sex leaves us even
more sexually broken than before. With refreshing honesty and
clarity, Ed Shaw calls on the church to rediscover its confidence
in the Bible's teaching about our ability to experience or express
sexual feelings. He points us to how God's word reveals that
sexuality's ultimate purpose is to help us better know God and the
full power of his passionate love. He shows us how this is
surprisingly good news for all our joys and struggles with
sexuality.
For all who are interested in the daily office and praying the
hours. People in all kinds of religious traditions, including
Judaism and Christianity, have been marking time with prayer for
almost as long as we've divided the day into hours. "Praying the
hours," as it's called, has always reminded us that God walks with
us throughout each day; "praying the hours" is also a way that the
community of faith comes together, whether we're united all in one
place or scattered like raindrops. In the Episcopal Church, the
Book of Common Prayer offers beautiful services for morning, noon,
evening, and nighttime in a section called "The Daily Office" (pp
35-146). Daily Prayer for All Seasons offers a variation on that
theme, where a complete service covers one or two pages, thereby
eliminating the need to shuffle prayer books and hymnals. Daily
Prayer for All Seasons works for individuals, small groups, and/or
congregations. This prayer book presents a variety of images of
God, uses inclusive and expansive language for and about God, and
presents a rich variety of language, including poetry, meditation,
and prayers from the broader community of faith.
English Christendom has never been a static entity. Evangelism,
politics, conflict and cultural changes have constantly and
consistently developed it into myriad forms across the world.
However, in recent times that development has seemingly become a
general decline. This book utilises the motif of Christendom to
illuminate the pedigree of Anglican Christianity, allowing a vital
and persistent dynamic in Christianity, namely the relationship
between the sacred and the mundane, to be more fundamentally
explored. Each chapter seeks to unpack a particular historical
moment in which the relations of sacred and mundane are on display.
Beginning with the work of Bede, before focusing on the Anglo
Norman settlement of England, the Tudor period, and the
establishment of the church in the American and Australian
colonies, Anglicanism is shown to consistently be a
religio-political tradition. This approach opens up a different set
of categories for the study of contemporary Anglicanism and its
debates about the notion of the church. It also opens up fresh ways
of looking at religious conflict in the modern world and within
Christianity. This is a fresh exploration of a major facet of
Western religious culture. As such, it will be of significant
interest to scholars working in Religious History and Anglican
Studies, as well as theologians with an interest in Western
Ecclesiology.
To many people, the Church of England and worldwide Anglican
Communion has the aura of an institution that is dislocated and
adrift. Buffeted by tempestuous and stormy debates on sexuality,
gender, authority and power - to say nothing of priorities in
mission and ministry, and the leadership and management of the
church - a once confident Anglicanism appears to be anxious and
vulnerable. The Future Shape of Anglicanism offers a constructive
and critical engagement with the currents and contours that have
brought the church to this point. It assesses and evaluates the
forces now shaping the church and challenges them culturally,
critically, and theologically. The Future Shape of Anglicanism
engages with the church of the present that is simultaneously
dissenting and loyal, as well as critical and constructive. For all
who are engaged in ecclesiological investigations, and for those
who study the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion,
this book offers new maps and charts for the present and future. It
is an essential companion and guide to some of the movements and
forces that are currently shaping the church.
First critical edition and translation of documents crucial to our
understanding of the English Reformation. The English Reformation
began as a dispute over questions of canon law, and reforming the
existing system was one of the state's earliest objectives. A draft
proposal for this, known as the Henrician canons, has survived,
revealing the state of English canon law at the time of the break
with Rome, and providing a basis for Cranmer's subsequent, and much
better known, attempt to revise the canon law, which was published
by John Foxe under the title `Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum' in
1571. Although it never became law, it was highly esteemed by later
canon lawyers and enjoyed an unofficial authority in ecclesiastical
courts. The Henrician canons and the `Reformatio legum
ecclesiasticarum' are thus crucial for an understanding of
Reformation church discipline, revealing the problems and
opportunities facing those who wanted to reform the Church of
England's institutional structure in the mid-Tudor period,an age
which was to determine the course of the church for centuries to
come.This volume makes available for the first time full scholarly
editions and translations of the whole text, taking all the
available evidence into consideration, and setting the `Reformatio'
firmly in both its historical and contemporary context. GERALD BRAY
is Anglican Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School,
Samford University.
Weaving social, political, and religious history together with
church music and architecture, A People's Church is a clear-eyed
look at Anglican history through the ages. This history is as
tumultuous as it is long. The transformative 1534-1660 period
shaped not only the Church of England but the country itself,
encompassing the Reformation, the return to Catholicism under Mary,
and the Civil War. This was closely followed by the Restoration of
the monarchy in 1688, the expulsion of the Dissenters, and the 1689
Bill of Rights. By the time of John Henry Newman and the Industrial
Revolution, the church was fragile. How, then, has it endured? And
what of its future?
Originally published in 1988, this was the first full and scholarly
account of the formal Elizabethan and Jacobean debates between
Presbyterians and conformists concerning the government of the
church. This book shed new light on the crucial disagreements
between puritans and conformists and the importance of these
divisions for political processes within both the church and wider
society. The originality and complexity of Richard Hooker's thought
is discussed and the extent to which Hooker redefined the essence
of English Protestantism. The book will be of interest to
historians of the late 16th and 17th Centuries and to those
interested in church history and the development of Protestantism.
RELIGION/PHILOSOPHYRichard Hurd is best known to ecclesiastical
historians as one of George III's favourite bishops who was
offered, and declined, the archbishopric of Canterbury. These
letters, therefore, illuminate the early career of one of the most
prominent clerics of the late eighteenth century. The letters begin
in 1739, just after Hurd had graduated B.A. at Emmanuel College,
Cambridge. They chart his gradual climb up the ladder of
ecclesiastical preferment, through his time as Fellow at Emmanuel
and end with him settled in the comfortable country rectory of
Thurcaston in Leicestershire. Hurd had a wide circle of
correspondents. He became a close friend of William Warburton,
Bishop of Gloucester, perhaps the most prominent controverialist of
the period. He was also a member of a literary circle which
included the poets Thomas Gray and William Mason. Indeed, Hurd
himself is well-known to students of English literature as the
author of Letters on Chivalry and Romanceand as a significant
figure among the so-called pre-romantics'. Hurd's letters reveal
the full range of his interests, from theology and university
politics, through literature, to painting and sculpture. This
edition, therefore, not only tells us about Hurd's early life and
career, but also provides a valuable insight into the social life
of the Anglican clergy in the eighteenth century. LITERATURE Among
students of English literature, Richard Hurd is best remembered as
the author of Letters on Chivalry and Romanceand as a significant
figure among the so-called pre-romantics'. His literary interests,
his friendship with Warburton, the editor of Pope, and his career
in the Church are all illustrated in the letters presented in this
volume and written by Hurd between 1739, when he was an
undergraduate at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and 1762, the year
which marked the high point of his literary career with the
publication of Letters of Chivalry and Romance. This correspondence
also illustrates his interests in paint
The everything-you-need to know adult guide to the Episcopal
Church. This updated and revised edition incorporates new
initiatives and changes in the Episcopal Church, including
marriage, inclusion of LBGTQ+ persons, Presiding Bishop Michael
Curry's call to join the Jesus Movement, and taking our faith out
into the world. A Leader Guide is included in this revised edition
in addition to the "transformation questions" that follow each
chapter. Easy to read but with substance for newcomers, adult
formation groups, and lifelong Episcopalians, this book is for all
who desire to know more about the Episcopal Church.
What is really going on inside the Church of England? God's Church
for God's World offers essays and testimony from Evangelical
Anglicans ahead of the Lambeth Conference 2022, that explore both
the current state of Anglicanism and the future of Anglicanism in
the UK. Featuring contributions from the likes of Andrew Goddard,
Esther Prior, a number of serving bishops and many more, this
collection offers a unique window into recent Anglican history that
has often be tumultuous, and the workings of the Anglican Communion
today. With a rare blend of theological reflection and timely
storytelling, each essay offers something fresh - with no easy
answers. Combining critical reflection with good news stories, they
explore topics such as church planting and mutual flourishing, and
encourage all of us to think through what faithfulness might look
in our own context. God's Church for God's World brings together
voices drawn from all major Anglican evangelical networks in the
UK, demonstrating a commitment to the Gospel being proclaimed and a
unity both throughout and beyond the Church of England. With a
number of young contributors, it also offers a glimpse of possible
futures for the Anglican Church. An honest, behind-the-scenes look
at the Church of England in the twenty-first century, God's Church
for God's World is a book for anyone looking for insight into the
Anglican Communion from an evangelical perspective, and to
understand what might lie ahead for the church.
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