Questioning Authority
The Theology and Practice of Authority in the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion
(Sprache: Englisch)
Questioning Authority analyzes current conflicts concerning authority in the Anglican church and offers a new framework for addressing them.
Leider schon ausverkauft
Buch (Gebunden)
- Lastschrift, Kreditkarte, Paypal, Rechnung
- Kostenlose Rücksendung
Produktdetails
Produktinformationen zu „Questioning Authority “
Questioning Authority analyzes current conflicts concerning authority in the Anglican church and offers a new framework for addressing them.
Klappentext zu „Questioning Authority “
Questioning Authority analyzes current conflicts concerning authority in the Anglican church and offers a new framework for addressing them. It argues that authority in the church is fundamentally relational rather than juridical. All members of the church have authority to engage in discerning the church's identity, direction, and mission. Most of this authority is exercised in personal interactions and group practices of consultation and direction. Formal authority in the church confers power so responsibilities can be fulfilled. Church relations always include conflict, which may be creative and helpful rather than divisive. Conflict arises because persons and groups follow Christ in ways related to their own cultural context while also being in communion with others. Communion in the church requires embracing diversity, recognizing and respecting others' perspectives, and working together to discover and create common ground. Today's church needs more participatory forms of governance and decision-making that are conciliar and synodal.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Questioning Authority “
Michael B. Curry: Foreword - Acknowledgments - Abbreviations - Introduction: Communion Challenged - Impaired Communion - The Highest Degree of Communion Possible - Questioning Authority - Power, Responsibility, and Authority - Differentiated Authority - Relational Theology - Catholicity and Conciliarity - Conclusions and Prospects - Index.
Autoren-Porträt von Ellen K. Wondra
Ellen K. Wondra, an Episcopal priest, is a member of the World Council of Churches' Commission on Faith and Order and Research Professor Emerita in Theology and Ethics at the Bexley-Seabury Seminary Federation in Chicago, Illinois. She is Editor Emerita of the Anglican Theological Review.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ellen K. Wondra
- 2018, Neuausgabe, XVIII, 300 Seiten, Maße: 15,5 x 23,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 1433132168
- ISBN-13: 9781433132162
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.09.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"In this wide-ranging work, Ellen K. Wondra doesn't so much question authority as reclaim what true authority consists of in the Anglican tradition. Authority derives its power to initiate and confirm action from the common life of individuals bound together by history, obligation, affection and shared hope. Hence, authority is essentially relational. Wondra demonstrates how this moral philosophical claim is reflected in the ancient ecclesial principle of conciliarity: bishops, personally embodying the unity of the church, only exercise leadership in concert with the people of God as a whole. Its Anglican focus notwithstanding, this study is deeply ecumenical, particularly in its steady insistence that when disagreement and difference coexist in community, there true authority is to be found, however messy and fluid it may be." Rt. Rev. Thomas E. Breidenthal, IX Bishop of Southern Ohio
Kommentar zu "Questioning Authority"
0 Gebrauchte Artikel zu „Questioning Authority“
| Zustand | Preis | Porto | Zahlung | Verkäufer | Rating |
|---|
Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "Questioning Authority".
Kommentar verfassen