Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword                                                                                           
 Notes on Contributors                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Introduction: What's going on in Anglicanism?
Mark D. Chapman

Baby's First Steps: Can the Covenant Proposal ever walk?
Gregory Cameron

Unity and Diversity, Communion and Covenant: Theological, Ecclesiological, Political and Missional Challenges for Anglicanism
Andrew Goddard                                                        

The dull bits of history: cautionary tales for Anglicanism
Mark D. Chapman                                                                      

The Episcopal Church in the USA and the Covenant: The Place of the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral.
R. William Franklin                                                                   

‘From all nations and Languages' Reflections on Church, Catholicity and Culture
Charlotte Methuen                                                     

The Anglican Covenant: An African Perspective
Victor Atta-Baffoe

Towards an Anglican Covenant: A Roman Catholic Perspective
Paul McPartlan

The Methodist Idea of Covenant
Kenneth Wilson

Covenant in the Bible and Today
John Barton

 Index                                                                                                 

Promotional Information

This book is a collection of essays by leading theologians and church leaders on the implications of the proposed Anglican Covenant, which has been offered as a solution to the recent crises facing worldwide Anglicanism.

About the Author

Mark Chapman is Vice-Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, and a Reader in Modern Theology at the University of Oxford, UK. He has written widely on modern church history, ethics and theology. His books include Ernst Troeltsch and Liberal Theology (Oxford), The Coming Crisis (Sheffield), Blair's Britain (DLT) and Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford). 

Reviews

"Written under the auspices of the Affirming Catholicism Movement, the authors provide readers with a relatively unbiased and thought-provoking study of the draft Covenant ... what makes this book unique is its attempt to work towards a resolution of the issue using practical, theological and ecclesiological approaches.  While focussing on one branch of the Christian faith, it offers much food for theological reflection to those of us coming from other branches." - Verbum et Ecclesia

"This collection of essays remains a valuable resource in the ongoing discussion of whether or not an Anglican covenant is the way to address the Communion's so-called 'ecclesial deficit' spoken of by the present archbishop of Canterbury." -Richard Geoffrey Leggett, Sewanee Theological Review, Vol. 52:4, 2009

"This is a useful collection of essays...It presents a helpfully diverse range of views...provides substantial food for thought and reflection" 1 December 2008
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