The Episcopal Church in crisis
Subtitle: how sex, the Bible, and authority are dividing the faithful
By: Frank G. Kirkpatrick.
Series: Religion, politics, and public life
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780313346620
Subjects: Episcopal Church; Anglican Communion -- United States -- Forecasting; Twenty-first century -- Forecasts
Genres: Forecasts.
Description: "The author places the emerging crisis of the Episcopal Church in context: historical, moral, theological, cultural, and ecclesiological. He explores how the rift between Episcopalians in the United States originated, how it is being played out now in the rift between the official representatives of ECUSA and the Anglican Communion, what the arguments are for and against all sides, and what the prospects are for either reconciliation at some level between the opposing parties or deepening schism in the future. Kirkpatrick explores the variety of contentious issues, rather than focusing just on the one that gets the most media attention: homosexuality." "The book provides readers with an up-to-date account of the history of the crisis, an analysis of the conflicting arguments, and a contextual guide for understanding what might come next in this unfolding story."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The beginnings of the crisis; title: The resolution that shaped the debate and the election that shook the communion; title: "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"; title: The way we were historical background; title: From Rome to post-establishment America by way of Canterbury; title: "Things fall apart"; title: The bishops assembled the Lambeth Conferences from 1867 to the present; title: "Surely some revelation is at hand"; title: The uncompleted struggle for women's ordination from defective men to the 'conscience clause'; title: "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed"; title: From Robinson's election to the present; title: From the Chapman memo to the Windsor Report the tension between unity, uniformity, and Episcopal authority; title: "The centre cannot hold"; title: From Dromantine to San Joaquin; title: "The worst are full of passionate intensity"; title: Perspectives from the discontented; title: The conservative plea for moral certainty and ecclesiastical discipline; title: "Spiritus mundi troubles my sight"; title: The communion in Africa : from imperially colonized to moral colonizers; title: "Somewhere in the sands of the desert"; title: Biblical perspectives on slavery and homosexuality; title: Reconciling natural law, biblical truth, and the moral abomination of slavery; title: "Twenty centuries of stony sleep"; title: The Bible, sex, and the contest of interpretations; title: "A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun"; title: Conclusion: The shape of the future.