Priest of the Church or Priest of a Church?
The Ecclesiology of Ordained Local Ministry
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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