Anglican Covenant
Unity and Diversity in the Anglican Communion
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567032539
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 25/01/2008
Width: 13.8 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
This book is a collection of essays by leading theologians and church leaders on the implications of the proposed Anglican Covenant, which has been offered as a solution to the recent crises facing worldwide Anglicanism. At the Anglican Primates' meeting in February 2007 a draft Covenant was commended for study by the constituent churches of the Anglican Communion. This book presents a sober and dispassionate discussion of the theology and politics behind the Covenant. The writers represent a number of different theological traditions and disciplines within and beyond Anglicanism. What unites them is a desire to understand other opinions and to listen to different views. The contributors include theological educators, church historians, ethicists, biblical scholars, and canonists from different parts of the Anglican Communion and from ecumenical partners. While the book aims to be dispassionate and to stand apart from the rhetoric of ecclesiastical parties, it also offers original and thought-provoking discussions based on detailed and thorough scholarship.
Contents
Foreword
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: What's going on in Anglicanism?
Mark D. Chapman
Baby's First Steps: Can the Covenant Proposal ever walk?
Gregory Cameron
Andrew Goddard
The dull bits of history: cautionary tales for Anglicanism
Mark D. Chapman
R. William Franklin
Charlotte Methuen
The Anglican Covenant: An African Perspective
Victor Atta-Baffoe
Towards an Anglican Covenant: A Roman Catholic Perspective
Paul McPartlan
The Methodist Idea of Covenant
Kenneth Wilson
Covenant in the Bible and Today
John Barton
Foreword
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: What's going on in Anglicanism?
Mark D. Chapman
Baby's First Steps: Can the Covenant Proposal ever walk?
Gregory Cameron
Andrew Goddard
The dull bits of history: cautionary tales for Anglicanism
Mark D. Chapman
R. William Franklin
Charlotte Methuen
The Anglican Covenant: An African Perspective
Victor Atta-Baffoe
Towards an Anglican Covenant: A Roman Catholic Perspective
Paul McPartlan
The Methodist Idea of Covenant
Kenneth Wilson
Covenant in the Bible and Today
John Barton
Index
"This is a useful collection of essays...It presents a helpfully diverse range of views...provides substantial food for thought and reflection" 1 December 2008--Sanford Lakoff "Expository Times "