If you're looking for one book about the development of the church in England then this may be the book for you. It contains a series of essays by some of the key thinkers in current debates about Fresh Expressions, Church and Society, Mission, Ministry, etc... Graham Cray, Grace Davie, George Lings, Michael Moynagh, and others, who provide good summaries of their thoughts about particular subjects (or rather summaries of their books). In a couple of instances they actually expand on what they have said elsewhere, developing their thinking in new and intriguing ways... Worth a read...
I particularly like Steven Croft's proposal for a set of key Anglican Values:
- a commitment to Scripture
- a commitment to the dominical sacraments of baptism and Eucharist
- a commitment to listening to the whole of Christian tradition and seeing that tradition expressed in the historic creeds
- a commitment to the ministry and mission of the whole people of God and to the ordering of ministry through the threefold order of deacons, priests and bishops
- a commitment to the mission of God to the whole of creation and to the whole of our society as defined and described in the Anglican Communion's five marks of mission
Now that's a Covenant I'd be happy to sign!
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