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In an era in which The Episcopal Church and the Church of England have become increasingly alarmed about numerical decline, the editors examine sustained engagement with deepening the theological imagination of the whole Christian community, through renewed practices of, and approaches to, preaching, study, and spiritual development for Anglicans.

This book makes a unique contribution to Christian theology by drawing on multiple disciplines to address the issue of existential importance.

Leadership and Conflict in African Churches: The Anglican Experience investigates the involvement of leadership and conflict in the African church focusing on Mkunga H. P. Mtingele and the Anglican Church of Tanzania along with other denominations and organizations in Tanzania, Africa, and beyond.

Emerges from a conference held at Harvard Divinity School in April 2011.

Beginning with the perceived dissonance of east and west, of Christianity and Islam, and working through the complexity of antagonistic worldviews that have been perpetuated over the centuries, Engaging Islam from a Christian Perspective seeks to rediscover the deep interconnectedness between these two world faiths.

Yankee Bishops: Apostles in the New Republic, 1783 to 1873 is the first collective examination of the American episcopate and offers critical insight into the theory and practice of episcopal ministry in these formative years.

Tells the story of The Episcopal Church's development of an official rationale for its ongoing engagement with religious diversity. This book explains what one church teaches about how religious difference may be interpreted in Christian terms. It is suitable for courses in interreligious dialogue, Christian ethics, and American religious history.

Members of many religions live alongside one another in sprawling urban centers and isolated rural communities, and conflict and misunderstanding among religions are widespread. This book examines the nature of such encounters and explores the meaning of religious dialogue and terms like conversion, syncretism, salvation, and pluralism.

With respect to the Transfiguration, Anglicans interpret the event within the biblical context, assume its basic historic character, and juxtapose high Christology with the human limitations of Jesus' self-understanding. This title analyzes Anglican interpretations of the Transfiguration from the eighth century onwards.

The Body of Christ in a Market Economy explains how desire connects scripture, economics, theological anthropology, and soteriology.

Questioning Authority analyzes current conflicts concerning authority in the Anglican church and offers a new framework for addressing them.

Why is it that churches agree to the same basic faith in hundreds of dialogues, and yet remain locked in an "ecumenical winter"? In Choose the Narrow Path, Bishop Pierre Whalon argues that to acknowledge the same doctrines while acting as if churches should remain separate is not only a recipe for disaster, but it is also itself a sin. This book spells out that doctrinal agreement in Part I, while Part II uncovers a more personal reaction, structured around the Nicene Creed.The primary argument is that, while churches may be "one," "holy," and "catholic" in what they believe, none of them is truly "apostolic" in their action. To begin to address this failing, the author calls for exceptional intercommunion for members of all churches that subscribe to the Narrow Path but are still reluctant to walk it together."Bishop Pierre Whalon ¿ offers clear points about the challenges that Churches face, but also a way forward through what he describes as "the narrow path."¿ The Most Reverend Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church"Bishop Pierre Whalon¿s Choose the Narrow Path is a much needed and highly accessible handbook of the contemporary Ecumenical Movement for the unity of the Christian Churches."¿ The Right Reverend R. William Franklin, Assistant Bishop, Diocese of Long Island"Bishop Pierre Whalon has gone beyond the rhetoric to produce a sound scriptural-based systematic treatise with concrete practical applications. The book ¿ may well be the catalyst, as the subtitle suggests, That Opens the Way for the Churches to Walk Together."¿Prof. Cyril Orji, Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Dayton, OH"Bishop Whalon¿s Choose the Narrow Path is ¿ a book for Christians of all stripes to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest¿great for study groups and church leaders alike."¿The Very Reverend Dr. William S. Stafford, Dean Emeritus of The School of Theology, Sewanee, USA"To walk any narrow path with a precipice on either side is very dangerous, but Bishop Pierre Whalon proves to be an excellent and sure-footed guide for the churches to try to walk together. He calls for action now so that we can avoid the scandal of disunity which threatens to plunge us into the depths, and instead to witness together to Jesus the Risen Christ."¿The Rev¿d Canon Professor Richard A. Burridge,The University of Manchester