Synopses & Reviews
Following in the footsteps of the two earlier teaching series of the 1950s and 1970s, these volumes seek to reveal the distinctive vision Anglicanism offers for the people of God today. Each book includes a study guide and a list of additional resources. The series is designed for wide parish use, including adult education, classes for inquirers and newcomers, the adult catechumenate, parish libraries, and study groups throughout the church year.
Harold T. Lewis offers a survey of the social teachings of Anglicanism and the Episcopal Church. He begins with the Jewish and Christian scriptures and moves on to the social gospel, including the work of the Evangelicals and Anglo-Catholics in England, and the American civil rights movement. Later chapters address the challenges of liberation theology, third-world debt and economic justice, and questions of race, gender, and sexuality.
Synopsis
In this volume of The New Church s Teaching Series, Harold T. Lewis surveys the teachings and witness of Anglicanism and the Episcopal Church concerning the Christian vision of a righteous social order, including the challenges of the new millennium. Beginning with the Bible s understandings of social justice, Lewis summarizes the Anglican witness of theologians like F. D. Maurice and William Temple and goes on to discuss the Episcopal Church in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Later chapters discuss the challenges of a new social order that face the church today raised by liberation theology, third-world debt and economic justice, and questions of race, gender, and human sexuality.As with each book in The New Church s Teaching Series, recommended resources for further reading and questions for discussion are included.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-150).