Questioning Authority: The Theology and Practice of Authority in the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion

ISBN-13: 9781433132162 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 300 str.

Ellen K. Wondra

Opis

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

Recenzje

"In this wide-ranging work, Ellen K. Wondra doesn't so much question authority as reclaim what true authority consists of in the Anglican tradition. Authority derives its power to initiate and confirm action from the common life of individuals bound together by history, obligation, affection and shared hope. Hence, authority is essentially relational. Wondra demonstrates how this moral philosophical claim is reflected in the ancient ecclesial principle of conciliarity: bishops, personally embodying the unity of the church, only exercise leadership in concert with the people of God as a whole. Its Anglican focus notwithstanding, this study is deeply ecumenical, particularly in its steady insistence that when disagreement and difference coexist in community, there true authority is to be found, however messy and fluid it may be." Rt. Rev. Thomas E. Breidenthal, IX Bishop of Southern Ohio

Spis treści

Michael B. Curry: Foreword - Acknowledgments - Abbreviations - Introduction: Communion Challenged - Impaired Communion - The Highest Degree of Communion Possible - Questioning Authority - Power, Responsibility, and Authority - Differentiated Authority - Relational Theology - Catholicity and Conciliarity - Conclusions and Prospects - Index.

O autorze

Ellen K. Wondra, an Episcopal priest, is a member of the World Council of Churches' Commission on Faith and Order and Research Professor Emerita in Theology and Ethics at the Bexley-Seabury Seminary Federation in Chicago, Illinois. She is Editor Emerita of the Anglican Theological Review.