An edition of The Episcopal Church in crisis (2008)

The Episcopal Church in crisis

how sex, the Bible, and authority are dividing the faithful

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Praeger Publishers
Language
English
Pages
219

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Table of Contents

The beginnings of the crisis
The resolution that shaped the debate and the election that shook the communion
"Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
The way we were historical background
From Rome to post-establishment America by way of Canterbury
"Things fall apart"
The bishops assembled the Lambeth Conferences from 1867 to the present
"Surely some revelation is at hand"
The uncompleted struggle for women's ordination from defective men to the 'conscience clause'
"The blood-dimmed tide is loosed"
From Robinson's election to the present
From the Chapman memo to the Windsor Report the tension between unity, uniformity, and Episcopal authority
"The centre cannot hold"
From Dromantine to San Joaquin
"The worst are full of passionate intensity"
Perspectives from the discontented
The conservative plea for moral certainty and ecclesiastical discipline
"Spiritus mundi troubles my sight"
The communion in Africa : from imperially colonized to moral colonizers
"Somewhere in the sands of the desert"
Biblical perspectives on slavery and homosexuality
Reconciling natural law, biblical truth, and the moral abomination of slavery
"Twenty centuries of stony sleep"
The Bible, sex, and the contest of interpretations
"A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun"
Conclusion: The shape of the future.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Westport, Conn
Series
Religion, politics, and public life
Genre
Forecasts.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
283/.7309049
Library of Congress
BX5930.3 .K57 2008, BX5930

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
219

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Open Library
OL16678912M
Internet Archive
episcopalchurchi0000kirk
ISBN 13
9780313346620
LCCN
2008008994
OCLC/WorldCat
213384819
Library Thing
7928407
Goodreads
3920428

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