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The essays in this collection explore questions that are
fundamental to Anglican identity. What do we mean by doctrine and
its development? What does it mean to be Spirit led? What is
holiness, in Scripture and in the church's reading of Scripture?
How might we negotiate in a theologically coherent way the
relationship between the church's cultural context and its
inherited faith? These questions arise immediately from the debate
about same-sex blessings in the Anglican Church of Canada and in
particular the questions posed by the Primate at General Synod
2007. But the questions also stand on their own as deep-seated and
far-reaching inquiries involving who we are as people of faith in
this time and place.
The contributors to this volume are all Anglicans and scholars who
are deeply engaged in the life of the church and committed to its
well being. While all very different, their essays are nevertheless
linked by two intriguing common emphases: first of all on
Scripture, and secondly on the consensus fidelium-the mind of the
whole church through history and throughout the world. In this they
witness to the possibility of an emerging common mind in the church
of Canada: a way of seeing that is both catholic and
evangelical-reading both the tradition and the times and, in both,
reading Scripture. They represent what it might mean to be the
church "in spirit and in truth" in our time. These essays are
offered as an articulation of the guiding principles by which the
church may move forward in a time of serious disagreement, and in
the belief that this approach-at once catholic and evangelical,
rooted in Scripture and in the community of the faithful-captures
the peculiar genius of Anglicanism and, more broadly, something of
what it means to be the Church.
About the Editors:
Catherine Sider Hamilton is a doctoral student and Instructor in
New Testament Greek at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, and
Honorary Assistant at Grace Church on-the-Hill in Toronto.
Peter M. B. Robinson is the Priest at Emmanuel Church Richvale and
Adjunct Professor of Theology at Wycliffe College, University of
Toronto.
George Sumner is the Principal of Wycliffe College, an honorary
assistant at St. Paul's Anglican Church, and a Canon to the
Dioceses of Toronto and Saskatchewan.
This book explores the idea of Anglican idenity through a study of
major figures from Richard Hooker to Michael Ramsey, foucusing on
their contribution to contemporary thinking about Christian
spirituality, worship, mission. Theology and ministry.
This important study of key Anglican Benedictine Communities in the
first half of the 20th century provides a vital record of how the
Anglican Communion dealt with an issue that was as divisive in its
day as today's disputes over sexuality and women bishops, and
explores the origins of the influential Anglican Papalism movement.
It was the heyday of Anglo-Catholicism in the Church of England.
Religious life was flourishing for the first time since the
Reformation. The first shock came when the Abbot of Caldey, a
flamboyant character noted for luxurious tastes, and his monks went
over to Rome. Nashdom - the great Benedictine community to which
Gregory Dix belonged and, in many ways, the ultimate expression of
Anglo-Catholicism - threatened to do likewise over the crisis of
the Church of South India where the very idea of priestly
ordination and identity was being challenged. Thanks to Archbishop
William Temple the crisis was averted, the monks of Nashdom stayed
and the scene was set for Anglican Papalism to enter the stage.
PETA DUNSTAN lectures in Modern Church History at the Faculty of
Divinity, University of Cambridge, and is editor of Anglican
Religious Life, the directory of Anglican religious communities
worldwide.
What does it mean to be an Anglican? And Evangelical? Can these two
identities be held together with integrity? Where the church seems
to be fragmenting, how should we relate to the rest of the Anglican
Church?
Thirty years ago two influential Anglican thinkers, J.I. Packer
and N.T. Wright, addressed these questions in short and provocative
Latimer Studies. Their work remains stimulating and important, and
is republished here for a new generation, with fresh prefaces from
each author reflecting on recent developments.
"The Evangelical Anglican Identity Problem" (Packer, 1978)
addressed Anglican evangelicals who were unsure whether it was
warrantable to continue as Anglicans.
"Evangelical Anglican Identity: The Connection Between Bible,
Gospel & Church"(Wright, 1980) builds upon Packer's study,
addressing Evangelical attitudes to the church.
"A Kind of Noah's Ark?" (Packer, 1981) had in view clergy and
laity who were baffled and discouraged by the continually
broadening spectrum of tolerated unorthodoxies within the Church of
England, and in particular the hesitations felt by young men called
to be pastors who were unsure whether it made sense to pursue their
vocation as Anglicans.
All three pieces were thus tracts for the times, but are
astonishingly relevant today.
J. I. Packer is Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at
Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is one of the
most important evangelical theologians of the last fifty years.
N. T. Wright is Bishop of Durham and a highly respected New
Testament scholar, publishing at both academic and popular levels.
Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) was a towering figure in the
formative years of the Church of England. Averse to the puritanical
spirit of the age, he helped to create a distinctive Anglican
theology, moderate in outlook and catholic in tone. He believed
that theology should be built on sound learning, he held a high
doctrine of the Eucharist and he emphasised dignity and order in
worship. His influence defines Anglicanism to this day.A devout
scholar and gifted linguist, he served as Dean of Westminster and
under James I became Bishop of Chichester, then Ely and finally
Winchester. In 1604 he was appointed as one of the translators of
the Authorized Version and became responsible for most of the Old
Testament. It was as a preacher that he achieved the greatest fame
and he was a favourite of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I. His
spiritual classic, "The Private Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes" was
for personal prayer what the "Book of Common Prayer" was for the
worship of the Church. Here is a wide selection from his writings
and a general introduction.
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In Nine Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
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In June 2008, 291 Anglican Bishops gathered in Jerusalem with
almost 900 other Anglican leaders, representing over 40 million
churchgoing Anglicans from around the Anglican Communion, for the
Global Anglican Future Conference. Central to the GAFCON gathering
were the daily expositions of Scripture, which were followed by
group discussion and prayer. We shared stories of our own Christian
journey, or pilgrimage, and recognized that the way of the cross is
at the heart of our discipleship, and also of our engagement with
the world. We now invite a wider circle of churches to join us in
these studies, particularly during the season of Lent, as we
consider them under the overall title of The Way of the Cross.
Contributors:
Archbishop Dr Justice Akrofi (Primate of West Africa)
Bishop Wallace Benn (Lewes, England)
Bishop Dr Michael Fape (Remo, Nigeria)
Revd Vaughan Roberts (Oxford, England)
Canon Dr Vinay Samuel (Bangalore, India)
Canon David Short (Vancouver, Canada)
Archbishop Datuk Yong Ping Chung (former Arcbishop of Southeast
Asia)
Foreword by Archbishop Peter Akinola (Primate of all Nigeria)
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pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
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have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Published early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, of England, only
five years after the death of the Roman Catholic Queen Mary, the
work is an affirmation of the Protestant Reformation in England
during the ongoing period of religious conflict between Catholics
and Protestants. Since the English monarchs also asserted control
over the Church in England, a change in rulers could change the
legal status of religious practices. As a consequence, adherents of
one religion risked judicial execution by the State depending on
the attitudes of the rulers. During Mary's reign, common people of
Christian faith were publicly burned at the stake in an attempt to
eliminate dissension from Catholic doctrines. Foxe's account of
Mary's reign and the martyrdoms that took place during it
contributed very significantly to the belief in a distinction from
the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope as a central aspect of
English national identity. By compiling his record, Foxe intended
to demonstrate a historical justification for the foundation of the
Church of England as a contemporary embodiment of the true and
faithful church, rather than as a newly established Christian
denomination.
This is the book nobody will like. The Episcopal Church has gone
crazy. We've become pigs who roll around in our own mud, and when
we've finished rolling here, we roll there. Perhaps we eat a little
spiritual food and then wallow back to the mud. We talk about God,
mention Jesus like he's our best friend, but we act exactly like he
said not to act. We are exactly who he said not to be. In this book
the author employs Scripture to demonstrate that both Jesus and
Paul would favor unity over division, and that the Holy Eucharist
is the ultimate act of Christian unity. This book shows that, in
the end, unity facilitated by love in Christ should be our goal,
not righteousness. Division may be our destiny, but it is not God's
will.
Description: Theologian, poet, public intellectual, and clergyman,
Rowan Williams is one of the leading lights of contemporary British
theology. He has published over twenty books and one hundred
scholarly essays in a distinguished career as an academic
theologian that culminated in his appointment as Lady Margaret
Professor of Divinity at Oxford University. Williams left this post
to serve in the Anglican Church, first as Bishop of Monmouth, then
Archbishop of Wales, before finally being enthroned in 2003 as the
104th Archbishop of Canterbury. In this collection of essays, a
talented younger generation of Australian theologians critically
analyzes the themes that bind together Williams's theology. These
sympathetic yet probing essays traverse the full breadth of
Williams's work, from his studies on Arius, the Desert Fathers,
Hegel, and Trinitarian theology to his more pastoral writings on
spirituality, sexuality, politics, and the Anglican Church.
Endorsements: ""I read these essays with surprise and delight. This
excellent collection of constructive critical essays are a tribute
both to the richness of Rowan Williams's theology and the
intellectual commitment, discernment, and fairness of their
authors. Highly recommended."" --Alister E. McGrath Professor of
Theology, Ministry, and Education King's College, London. ""I
welcome this book very warmly. It offers a thoughtful, engaging,
and respectful--albeit critical--account of Rowan Williams's
theology that does him justice. Even when disagreeing on crucial
areas such as sexuality or war, the contributors to this fresh and
well-informed book show much affection and respect for Rowan
Williams himself at this difficult time for Anglicanism. Would that
all debates among Christians were conducted in a similar manner.""
--Robin Gill Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology University
of Kent, Canterbury ""Neither setting Rowan Williams's work on an
implausible pedestal nor dismissing it in caricature, the essays
that Matheson Russell has gathered engage the Archbishop in
thoughtful and critical conversation. I found myself by turns
intrigued, delighted, puzzled, convicted, and annoyed--but also
repeatedly driven to think again about Williams's work and, more
importantly, about the issues that his work explores."" --Mike
Higton Senior Lecturer in Theology University of Exeter About the
Contributor(s): Matheson Russell is Lecturer in Philosophy at the
University of Auckland. He is the author of Husserl: A Guide for
the Perplexed (2006), as well as essays on Heidegger, phenomenology
of religion, and political theology.
For publicity events and speaking engagements, see http:
//www.paulgordonchandler.com/schedule.htm. Today's tensions between
the 'Islamic' East and 'Christian' West run high. Here Paul-Gordon
Chandler presents fresh thinking in the area of Christian-Muslim
relations, showing how Christ_whom Islam reveres as a Prophet and
Christianity worships as the divine Messiah_can close the gap
between the two religions. Historically, Christians have taken a
confrontational or missionary approach toward Islam, leading many
Muslims to identify Christianity with the cultural prejudices and
hegemonic ambitions of Westerners. On the individual level,
Christ-followers within Islam have traditionally been encouraged by
Christians to break away from their Muslim communities. Chandler
boldly explores how these two major religions_which share much
common heritage_can not only co-exist, but also enrich each other.
He illustrates his perspective with examples from the life of
Syrian novelist Mazhar Mallouhi, widely read in the Middle East.
Mallouhi, a self-identified 'Sufi Muslim follower of Christ, '
seeks to bridge the chasm of misunderstanding between Muslims and
Christians through his novels.
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