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Books > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Anglican & Episcopalian Churches
What do we need to learn and receive from the other to help us
address challenges or wounds in our own tradition? That is the key
question asked in what has come to be known as 'receptive
ecumenism'. And nowhere is this question more pressing and
pertinent than in women's experiences within the church. Based on
qualitative research from five focus groups, 'For the Good of the
Church' expose the difficulties women face when they work in a
church - sexism, unfulfilled vocation, and abuse of power and
privilege, as well as the wide range of gifts and skills which
women bring in light of these. The second part of the book
continues to draw on the particular wounds and gifts, which arise
in the focus groups. Specific case studies are used to identify
gifts of theology, practice, experience, vocation and power.
Against negative prognoses of an 'ecumenical winter', Gabrielle
Thomas reveals how radically different theological and
ecclesiological perspectives can be a space for learning and
receiving gifts for the well-being of the whole Church.
Includes general hymns; hymns for feasts, seasons and saints' days;
office hymns for the liturgical year; an enlarged eucharistic
section; responsorial psalms, and a new English folk mass setting.
On the eve of WWI the well-known explorer and writer Sir Clements
Markham decided to pay tribute to his father, the Reverend David
Markham, by putting pen to paper. In tracing his father's life
story he provided a detailed account of his life and work at
Stillingfleet, Great Horkesley, and Windsor, and his interactions
with an extensive list of friends and family. As a well-connected,
highly-educated and wealthy individual, David Markham was able to
indulge his passion for travelling, collecting, and painting. The
family home was filled with cabinets of coins, fossils, shells and
other curiosities, as well as many fine works of art. His keen
interest in heraldry and family history meant a great deal of time
being devoted to tracing the rich history of the family. Clements
Markham's story of his father's life provides the reader with a
rich depiction of a true Victorian antiquarian: someone with a
lifelong passion for learning and interest in a broad spectrum of
fields. In doing so he has provided the reader with a rich source
of Victorian local, family and social history.
Bishop John Shelby Spong, author of Jesus for the Non-Religious,
Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Sins of Scripture, and many
other books, is known for his controversial ideas and fighting for
minority rights. In Eternal Life: A New Vision, a remarkable
spiritual journey about his lifelong struggle with the questions of
God and death, he reveals how he came to a new conviction about
eternal life. God, says spong, is ultimately one, and each of us is
part of that oneness. We do not live on after death as children who
have been rewarded with heaven or punished with hell but as part of
the life and being of God, sharing in God's eternity, which is
beyond the barriers of time and space. spong argues that the
discovery of the eternal can be found within each of us if we go
deeply into ourselves, transcend our limits and become fully human.
By seeking God within, by living each day to its fullest, we will
come to understand how we live eternally.
Always compelling and controversial, Spong, the leading
Christian liberal and pioneer for human rights, wrestles with the
question that all of us will ultimately face. In his final book,
Spong takes us beyond religion and even beyond Christianity until
he arrives at the affirmation that the fully realized human life
empties into and participates in the eternity of God. The pathway
into God turns out to be both a pathway into ourselves and a
doorway into eternal life. To Job's question "If a man (or a woman)
dies, will he (or she) live again?" he gives his answer as a
ringing yes
The SCM Studyguide to Anglicanism offers a comprehensive
introduction to the many different facets of Anglicanism. Aimed at
students preparing for ministry, it presumes no prior knowledge of
the subject and offers helpful overviews of Anglican history,
liturgy, theology, Canon Law, mission and global Anglicanism. As
well as offering updated and improved lists of further reading,
this second edition brings a greater emphasis on worldwide
expressions of Anglicanism, with more examples taken from Asian and
African contexts, and a brand new section which considers the rise
of the global communion alongside issues of inculturation and
indigenisation.
A Time for Creation encourages us to praise God for his creation,
take responsibility for our actions, repent of our misuse of
natural resources and hear the voice of creation itself in our
prayer. Drawing together texts from Common Worship with newly
commissioned material, it offers liturgies for all times and
occasions when there is a focus on creation - in daily prayer,
services of the word, school assemblies, eucharistic celebrations
and seasonal services to mark the agricultural year. It has been
compiled by the Liturgical Commission of the Church of England and
is designed to provide its parishes, schools and chaplaincies with
a rich selection of resources for worship and prayer.
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