The Fate of Communion
Subtitle: The Agony of Anglicanism and the Future of a Global Church
Contributors: Stanley Hauerwas (Foreword)
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: May 22, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780802832825
Subjects: Christian social thought & activity; Gay & Lesbian studies; Christianity - History - Social Issues; Christian Union; Religion; Religion - Church History; Religion - Denominations - Religions; Christianity - Christian Life - Social Issues; Lord's Supper; Christian Life - Social Issues; Christianity - Anglican; Anglican Communion; Lord's Supper (Canon law)
First sentence: On August 5, 2003, the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA), following an initial action by the House of Deputies of ECUSA's General Convention, gave its consent (by a ratio of roughly 60/40) to the election of the Rev. Gene Robinson to become the next bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire.
Description: "Current debates over a host of issues, particularly those relating to homosexuality, have left the 70-million-member Anglican Communion straining to understand what it means to be a communion - and even wondering whether life as a communion is possible. In this timely book two priest-scholars, Ephraim Radner and Philip Turner, examine the future of the concept of "communion" as a viable church structure, tracing its historical development as a self-consciously Anglican third way between Protestant congregationalism and Catholic centralism. In examining this essential issue, Radner and Turner relate the specific challenges of the U.S. Episcopal Church to the unity of the worldwide communion, touching on such divisive subjects as the place of Scripture, liberal theology, and episcopal authority. Their discussion is at once measured and impassioned, erudite and practical."--Jacket.