The fate of Communion : the agony of Anglicanism and the future of a global church / Ephraim Radner and Philip Turner ; foreword by Stanley Hauerwas. [print]
Material type: TextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Company, (c)2006.Description: xiii, 306 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780802832825
- 9780802863270
- BX5008.5.R129.F384 2006
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: unity, obedience, and the shape of communion -- The challenge of the present moment -- The end of a church and the triumph of denominationalism: on how to think about what is happening in the Episcopal Church -- Children of Cain: the oxymoron of American Catholicism -- Questions of authority -- Apprehending the truth: Anglican conservatism and common discernment -- The scriptural community: authority in Anglicanism -- Diversity and integrity: the challenges of life together -- Episcopal authority within a Communion of churches -- Questions of Communion -- The Virginia report: how firm a foundation? -- The Windsor report: a defining moment for a worldwide Communion -- Conciliarity and the American evasion of Communion -- The future of Communion -- ECUSA's god and the idols of liberal Protestantism -- The humiliation of Anglicanism and Christian life -- Conclusion: The world is waiting for holiness.
"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.
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