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Priest of the Church or Priest of a Church?

The Ecclesiology of Ordained Local Ministry

Priest of the Church or Priest of a Church?

The Ecclesiology of Ordained Local Ministry

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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781978711853
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 30/04/2021
Width: 16.2 cm
Height: 22.7 cm

The development of new forms of ministry, lay and ordained, has included worker-priests, now found in the Anglican Communion in a related form variously called Self-Supporting Ministry (SSM) or Non-Stipendiary Ministry (NSM). This book focuses on one of the most recent developments, the creation of Ordained Local Ministry. After chapters that consider preliminary questions of the nature of ministry, such as authority in the church and Holy Orders, Noel Cox argues that the crucial distinction between these and other forms of ministry is that the Ordained Local Minister (OLM) is overtly ordained specifically for a given locality (variously defined); they are a deacon or priest for a specific church, parish, benefice, or deanery, rather than of the universal church. Their introduction inevitably raises difficult ecclesiological questions, which Cox examines.

Chapter 1 The church and Holy Orders

Chapter 2 Sources and Limits on Authority

Chapter 3 The Priesthood of All Believers

Chapter 4 Local Ordained Ministry

Chapter 5 Local or Universal Ministry

Chapter 6 Challenges to New Forms of Ministry

Chapter 7 Ecumenism and Holy Orders

Chapter 8 Implications

Noel Cox

Noel Cox is a priest in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, currently Priest-in-Charge, St Jude’s Avondale, in the Diocese of Auckland, New Zealand.

Churches within the Anglican Communion view themselves as being part of the "one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church", and Anglicanism's via media has enabled it to be viewed as a focus for ecumenism. Recent innovations with regard to ordained ministry may, however, have compromised both the claim to catholicity and its ecumenical usefulness. In this book, Noel Cox - a scholar priest with experience of ministry in several Anglican provinces world-wide - examines the historical, theological and legal aspects of these developments and their consequences, with particular attention to Ordained Local Ministry. His analysis and conclusions deserve careful and prayerful consideration. -- The Reverend Professor Thomas Glyn Watkin QC

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