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An analysis of the development of local traditions within the Anglican Communion, shedding light on issues of unity and diversity in the global Church.
Anglicans around the world have responded to the gospel in many different cultural contexts. This has produced different customs and different ways of thinking about church issues. In the process of enculturation Anglicans have found themselves encountering social and political realities as malign forces against which they have had to struggle. As a consequence, the personal and local dynamic in Anglicanism has created not just diversity of custom and mental habits, but it has done so at points that have been vital to the way Anglicans have been committed to the gospel. Conflict and the Practice of Christian Faith looks at the process by which local traditions developed in Christianity and how these traditions have related to other sub-traditions of the universal church. It assesses some specifics of the Anglican experience and argues for a significant re-casting of some prominent elements of that tradition, at the same time clarifying some of the distinctive elements in the Anglican tradition. This leads to a more nuanced appreciation of the force of the social and political framework within which Anglicans have had to work out their salvation and of the different forms of secular society and different understandings of plurality and diversity. It also entails showing how the imperial route to catholicity took no firm root in Anglicanism. Going global has been a significant experiment in Anglican ecclesiology that is by no means over yet. The terms of that experiment lie at the heart of the current Anglican debates. The book will be of interest to Christians generally who belong to faith traditions spread across different cultures. It is also a case study of the issues of global reach and local tradition.
Anglicans around the world have responded to the gospel in many different cultural contexts. This has produced different customs and different ways of thinking about church issues. In the process of enculturation Anglicans have found themselves encountering social and political realities as malign forces against which they have had to struggle. As a consequence, the personal and local dynamic in Anglicanism has created not just diversity of custom and mental habits, but it has done so at points that have been vital to the way Anglicans have been committed to the gospel. Conflict and the Practice of Christian Faith looks at the process by which local traditions developed in Christianity and how these traditions have related to other sub-traditions of the universal church. It assesses some specifics of the Anglican experience and argues for a significant re-casting of some prominent elements of that tradition, at the same time clarifying some of the distinctive elements in the Anglican tradition. This leads to a more nuanced appreciation of the force of the social and political framework within which Anglicans have had to work out their salvation and of the different forms of secular society and different understandings of plurality and diversity. It also entails showing how the imperial route to catholicity took no firm root in Anglicanism. Going global has been a significant experiment in Anglican ecclesiology that is by no means over yet. The terms of that experiment lie at the heart of the current Anglican debates. The book will be of interest to Christians generally who belong to faith traditions spread across different cultures. It is also a case study of the issues of global reach and local tradition.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 182
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Publication Date:
28 July 2011
Trim Size: 9.02 X 5.98 in
ISBN: 9780718892432
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, Christianity, Theology
This book is essential reading for all concerned with the future direction of the Anglican Communion.
As we search for a way thorugh our current difficulties, wise and moderate voices need to be heard above the clamour of simplistic and divisive slogans at both extreme ends of the [Anglican] argument ... Bruce Kaye is such a voice. A New Testament scholar and a historian ... Kaye is sensitive to the legacy of colonialism and to the more subtle pressures of Western cultural hegemony today. He throws out a timely challenge to Anglicans ... In each case he has useful, thought-provoking thIngs to say.
It provides, not least for those outside Anglicanism, a judicious and informed guide to the turmoils in which a major branch of the world Church is caught up and by which we are all affected. Enrichingly this is set within a wider context ... Kaye offers encouragement and insights that are of universal importance which can enrich the whole Church, making the Anglican experience a case study of the struggle to be faithful in a time of rapid change globally.
— Paul Ballard
There are fascinating discussions of the ways in which theology and the church are shaped by political culture ... Kaye ... remains optimistic, and his conciliar church of many loosely connected churches is perhaps the only way forward when the covenant fails to command the support that it requires to work. One can but hope.' Mark Chapman in The Journal of Modern Believing, April 2012 'His dominant theme is the need for patient and generous engagement in the way in which Anglicans do their theology. (...) The book's most persuasive refrain is the exhortation for 'a gospel sense of patience' (p. 136) and the foolishness of imagining that major changes in worldwide Anglicanism (...) can be made in a hurry.
— Andrew Atherstone
As we search for a way thorugh our current difficulties, wise and moderate voices need to be heard above the clamour of simplistic and divisive slogans at both extreme ends of the [Anglican] argument ... Bruce Kaye is such a voice. A New Testament scholar and a historian ... Kaye is sensitive to the legacy of colonialism and to the more subtle pressures of Western cultural hegemony today. He throws out a timely challenge to Anglicans ... In each case he has useful, thought-provoking thIngs to say.
It provides, not least for those outside Anglicanism, a judicious and informed guide to the turmoils in which a major branch of the world Church is caught up and by which we are all affected. Enrichingly this is set within a wider context ... Kaye offers encouragement and insights that are of universal importance which can enrich the whole Church, making the Anglican experience a case study of the struggle to be faithful in a time of rapid change globally.
— Paul Ballard
There are fascinating discussions of the ways in which theology and the church are shaped by political culture ... Kaye ... remains optimistic, and his conciliar church of many loosely connected churches is perhaps the only way forward when the covenant fails to command the support that it requires to work. One can but hope.' Mark Chapman in The Journal of Modern Believing, April 2012 'His dominant theme is the need for patient and generous engagement in the way in which Anglicans do their theology. (...) The book's most persuasive refrain is the exhortation for 'a gospel sense of patience' (p. 136) and the foolishness of imagining that major changes in worldwide Anglicanism (...) can be made in a hurry.
— Andrew Atherstone
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Conflict and Connection in the Church
Conflict and Connection in Early Christianity
Local Traditions and the Universal Church
Catholicity Without Leviathan
The Powers, Church, and Truth
Will the Current Anglican Experiment Go Anywhere?
Introduction
Why the "Virginia Report" is not Good Enough
The Windsor Report: The Questions Less Asked
Will the Windsor Process Lead to the Precipice?
Lambeth - A Conference Re-discovered?
Conflict, Catholicity, and Hope
Bibliography
Introduction
Conflict and Connection in the Church
Conflict and Connection in Early Christianity
Local Traditions and the Universal Church
Catholicity Without Leviathan
The Powers, Church, and Truth
Will the Current Anglican Experiment Go Anywhere?
Introduction
Why the "Virginia Report" is not Good Enough
The Windsor Report: The Questions Less Asked
Will the Windsor Process Lead to the Precipice?
Lambeth - A Conference Re-discovered?
Conflict, Catholicity, and Hope
Bibliography