Anglicanism
Subtitle: confidence, commitment and communion
By: Martyn Percy, Ripon College Cuddesdon, UK
Series: Ashgate contemporary ecclesiology; Ashgate contemporary ecclesiology
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781409470359; 9781409470366; 9781409470373; 9781409470380
Subjects: Religion; Anglican Communion
Description: These essays provide some sharply-focused snapshots of contemporary Anglicanism, and cover many of the crucial issues affecting Anglicans today, such as the nature of mission and ministry, theological training and formation, and ecclesial identity and leadership.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Contexts, challenges and the church; title: Part I: Confidence in formation. A flight of starlings: Cuddesdon and the forming of Anglicanism; title: Sacred sagacity: formation and training for ministry; title: Yeast and salt: ministerial formation for rural contexts; title: Pitching tents: formational sketches on sacred space; title: Part II: Commitment and mission. Many rooms in my Father's house: the parish church; title: Mind the gap: mission, youth and generational change; title: Opportunity knocks: church, nationhood and establishment; title: Old tricks for new dogs: a critique of fresh expressions; title: Part III: Communion and polity. Herding cats: leadership in the Church of England; title: Context and Catholicity: an Anglican-American dilemma?; title: Know surrender: from Ulster to Windsor; title: After Lambeth: plotting the future; title: The nature of the body and the blessing of leadership.