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This title in other editionsThe Fate of Communion: The Agony of Anglicanism and the Future of a Global Churchby Ephraim Radner
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Current debates over a host of issues, including homosexuality, continually threaten to tear apart the 70-million-member Anglican Communion.
In this timely book two priest-scholars, Ephraim Radner and Philip Turner, examine the future of the concept of “communion” as a viable church structure, tracing its historical development as a self-conscious Anglican third way between Protestant congregationalism and Catholic centralism. In examining this essential issue, Radner and Turner relate the specific challenges of the U.S. Episcopal Church to the unity of the worldwide communion, touching on such divisive issues as the place of Scripture, liberal theology, and episcopal authority. Compelling reading for Episcopalians and those in other traditions who are searching for a truly Christian approach to these thorny topics, The Fate of Communion is a forthright, direct examination of a church in turmoil. Table of ContentsIntroduction : unity, obedience, and the shape of communion — The challenge of the present moment — The end of a church and the triumph of denominationalism : on how to think about what is happening in the Episcopal Church — Children of Cain : the oxymoron of American Catholicism — Questions of
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