The open body
Subtitle: essays in Anglican ecclesiology
By: edited by Zachary Guiliano & Charles M. Stang
Series: Studies in Episcopal and Anglican theology -- vol. 4; Studies in Episcopal and Anglican theology -- v. 4.
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781433119385; 9781453908839
Subjects: Doctrines; Anglican Communion; Church
Description: The essays in this book reflect on ecclesiology in the Anglican tradition, debating whether and how humans should gather as a "church" in the name of Christ. While the prompt for this collection of essays is the crisis in the Anglican Communion regarding homosexuality and church governance, this book provides a re-interpretation and re-imagination of the central metaphor of Christian community, namely "the Body of Christ." By suggesting that the Body of Christ is "open," the authors are insisting that while the recent controversy within the Anglican Communion should prompt and even influence theological reflection on Christian community, it should not define or determine it. In other words, the controversy is regarded as an "opening" or an opportunity to imagine and to examine the past, present, and future of the Church, both of the Anglican Communion and of the entire Body of Christ. Some of the essays begin their reappraisal by looking backward and offering creative theological retrievals from the early Church; some essays offer fresh perspectives on the recent Anglican past and present; others examine the present ecclesiology from a comparative, interreligious perspective; and still others are keen to anticipate and influence the possible future(s) of the Body of Christ. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the open body  -- Zachary Guiliano and Charles M. Stang; title: Formation, exile, and encounter: teaching traditions for an open body  -- Mark Jordan; title: Episcopal formation: mystery, incarnation, and a theology of difference  -- Richard Valantasis; title: Exploring trans-Atlantic tensions within contemporary Anglicanism  -- Robert Tobin -- Diversity and episcopal governance in recent Anglican constitutions / -- Christopher Ashley; title: Seeking consensus within the Anglican tradition: the example of Charles Gore  -- Benjamin J. King; title: The beginning and end of all hierarchy  -- Charles M. Stang; title: Skandalon of conjoinment: Anglican ecclesial embodiment  -- Cameron Partridge; title: Radical hospitality: interreligious dialogue as Christian mission in the twenty-first century  -- C. Denise Yarbrough; title: "Anglican identity" and "Jewish identity": metaphors and comparison points  -- Lawrence M. Wills; title: The advent of Occupy Wall Street and the incarnational emergency of the Episcopal church  -- Marisa Egerstrom; title: "I saw your soul in your letter": the Internet and the Cappadocian understanding of letter writing  -- Elizabeth Anderson; title: How does the body of Christ encounter the body politic? A panel discussion -- Jeffrey K. Bridges.