“The authors, as one might expect from an episcopal church, include three present or former archbishops, 13 bishops, 20 or so priests and 40-odd academics, many of them professors (with some overlap between the last two groups), so there is plenty of authoritative scholarship and expertise here.” (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2014)
“The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion (WBCAC) is an unprecedented work on global Anglicanism. It offers a thorough account of the history, structures, members and major themes in Anglican thought, which is as comprehensive as it is comprehensible. As a guide to the Anglican Communion, it leaves no notable stone unturned.” (Churchman, 1 August 2014)
“This is a valuable contribution to understanding the Anglican Communion. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers.” (Choice, 1 December 2013)
“This wide-ranging and wonderfully comprehensive companion is really a well-informed guide. Its many essays, together with reports from the provinces which constitute the Communion, provide the background and present the challenges that face the Communion, and its member churches, as it looks to the future. The vast amount of information contained here is invaluable to anyone interested in the evolution of what is known as Anglicanism.”―Frank T. Griswold, XXV Presiding Bishop, The Episcopal Church
“The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion marks an important, and much-needed, effort to assemble the best of modern Anglican scholarship in a cooperative, global enterprise, across theological as well as geographic and economic dividing lines to chart something of the vicissitudes of Anglican diversity-in-unity. Here, remarkably, some of the best minds of modern Anglicanism, and a host of recognized leaders, wrestle with the meaning of Anglican identity and history in a single, comprehensive sweep. A rare feat of both scholarship and ecclesial service by Anglicans for the good of the whole–and a first fruit, we may hope, of many similar, cooperative efforts.”―Christopher Wells, Executive Director and Editor of The Living Church Foundation
From the Inside Flap
This uniquely comprehensive reference work provides a global account of the history, expansion, diversity, and contemporary issues facing the Anglican Communion, the worldwide body that includes all followers of the Anglican faith. It brings together a distinguished and international team of contributors, including some of the world’s leading Anglican commentators, to offer readers unrivalled coverage of the church’s historical development and the religious and ethical questions affecting it today.
The volume incorporates every aspect of this vibrant and often complex religious community – home to the third-largest Christian denomination – from the analysis of its instruments of Unity, to its central role in interfaith communication. It spans the Anglican Communion’s long history through to 21st century debates within the church on such issues as sexual-orientation of clergy, and the pastoral role of women. Included is a full directory of the Church’s 44 provinces, with a brief history of each, alongside dedicated bibliographies for each chapter. The result is an insightful and wide-ranging treatment of this dynamic global faith.
From the Back Cover
This uniquely comprehensive reference work provides a global account of the history, expansion, diversity, and contemporary issues facing the Anglican Communion, the worldwide body that includes all followers of the Anglican faith. It brings together a distinguished and international team of contributors, including some of the world’s leading Anglican commentators, to offer readers unrivalled coverage of the church’s historical development and the religious and ethical questions affecting it today.
The volume incorporates every aspect of this vibrant and often complex religious community – home to the third-largest Christian denomination – from the analysis of its instruments of Unity, to its central role in interfaith communication. It spans the Anglican Communion’s long history through to 21st century debates within the church on such issues as sexual-orientation of clergy, and the pastoral role of women. Included is a full directory of the Church’s 44 provinces, with a brief history of each, alongside dedicated bibliographies for each chapter. The result is an insightful and wide-ranging treatment of this dynamic global faith.
About the Author
The Very Rev Dr Ian S. Markham is Dean, President and Professor of Theology and Ethics of Virginia Theological Seminary, USA. He is the author of numerous books including Against Atheism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), Encountering Religion (with Tinu Ruparell, Wiley-Blackwell, 2001), Theology of Engagement (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001), Truth and the Reality of God (1998), and Plurality and Christian Ethics (1994);and is editor of The Student’s Companion to the Theologians (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), A World Religions Reader, 3rd edition (with Christy Lohr, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and Globalization, Ethics, and Islam (2005).
The Rev Dr J. Barney Hawkins IV is Vice President for Institutional Advancement, Associate Dean of the Center for Anglican Communion Studies and Professor of Pastoral Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary, USA. A specialist on eighteenth-century Anglicanism in the American colonies, he spent more than two decades in parish ministry before joining VTS’s faculty in 2000. He is co-editor of Christ and Culture: Communion After Lambeth (with Martyn Percy, Mark Chapman, and Ian Markham, 2010), and co-author of Staying One, Remaining Open: Education Leaders for a 21st Century Church (with Richard J. Jones, 2010).
The Very Rev Dr Justyn Terry is Dean and President of Trinity School for Ministry, USA, where he is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology. He undertook his undergraduate studies in physics at Keble College, Oxford, and in theology and ministry at Cranmer Hall, St. John’s College, Durham, UK. Dr Terry was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1996 and served in ordained ministry in central London for ten years. He received his PhD in Systematic Theology from King’s College, London, in 2003 and is the author of The Justifying Judgment of God (2007).
The Rev. Leslie Nuñez Steffensen is currently Assistant to the Rector at Grace Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Virginia. Prior to completing her Master of Divinity, she was the Administrative Coordinator for the Center for Anglican Communion Studies at the Virginia Theological Seminary, USA. She took a BA in international studies at Johns Hopkins University before becoming Master of Theological Studies at VTS. She volunteered for missionary duties in Tanzania, where she worked as Academic Dean of Msalato Theological College in Dodoma, teaching theology and biblical studies.
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