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Last Rites - The End Of The Church Of England (Paperback)
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Last Rites - The End Of The Church Of England (Paperback)
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Dire Sunday services, shrinking congregations and financial
meltdown are the realities of the contemporary Church of England.
In this controversial book, Michael Hampson, who worked as a parish
priest for thirteen years, examines why the Church of England is in
such crisis. He describes a church irreconcilably divided between
liberals and evangelicals, shackled by tradition and with little
resonance for the laity of modern Britain. He locates the roots of
its demise in its history, from the Reformation to the ordination
of women and beyond. The internal fault lines of the Church were
exposed in 2003 by the forced resignation of Jeffrey John, the
first openly gay man appointed a bishop. Michael Hampson demolishes
the damaging arguments against homosexual clergy and movingly
describes his own journey to ordination as a gay man within a
prejudiced Church. In a powerful conclusion, he argues that a
radical transformation of both culture and structure is the one
hope for the renewal of the Church of England. Last Rites is a
fiery insider's fascinating view of a Church that has failed its
clergy, its laity and the nation at large.
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