Parochial Vision
Subtitle: The Future of the English Parish
Publisher: Paternoster
Published: September 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781842272381
Subjects: Christian life & practice; Christian Ministry - General; Christian Theology - General; Christian Theology - Ecclesiology; Religion; Religion - Theology; Church history; England
Description: The English parish is in a state of crisis. Ideally suited to the static, agricultural, hierarchical society in which it developed, it has become a severe impediment to the Church's work today. It needs to change. In this fascinating and insightful book, Nick Spencer explores the parish's past, present and future. He shows that rather than being synonymous with English Christianity, the parish was a comparatively late arrival on the scene, and one whose main roots were economic and social rather than ecclesiastical. He goes on to explain why the parish is now singularly inappropriate for modern ministry, before proposing a genuine alternative based on the system of Anglo-Saxon minster churches out of which parishes grew.--Cover page 4.