For the parish
Subtitle: a critique of Fresh Expressions
By: Andrew Davison and Alison Milbank
Contributors: Milbank, Alison, 1954-
Publisher: SCM Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780334043652
Subjects: Missional church movement; Fresh Expressions (Organization); New Church development
Description: "This book is written in the belief that an important choice is offered to the Church of England: to embrace her historic mission to evangelize and serve the whole people of this country, or to decline into a sect. We are responding to the most significant development in the Church of England in recent years: the 2004 report, Mission-shaped Church"--Page vii.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: The union of form and content; title: Theology and mediation; title: The church in Fresh Expressions : mistakes in soteriology and ecclesiology; title: Fresh Expressions : the flight to segregation; title: Fresh Expressions : the flight from tradition; title: Recovering a theology of mission and mediation; title: The parish; title: Rebuilding a Christian imaginary in the parish; title: Mediating faith in the parish : a liturgical ethics.