Current debates over a host of issues, particularly those relating to homosexuality, have left the 70-million-member Anglican Communion straining to understand what it means to be a communion -- and even wondering whether life as a communion is possible.
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...

In this book, controversial and world-renowned theologian, Stanley Hauerwas, tackles the issue of theology being sidelined as a necessary discipline in the modern university. It is an attempt to reclaim the knowledge of God as just that - knowledge.

• Questions why theology is no longer considered a necessary subject in the modern university, and explores the role it should play in the development of our -knowledge-
  
• Considers how theology is often excluded from the knowledges of the modern university because these are constituted by an understanding...

In this book, controversial and world-renowned theologian, Stanley Hauerwas, tackles the issue of theology being sidelined as a necessary discipline in the modern university. It is an attempt to reclaim the knowledge of God as just that - knowledge.

• Questions why theology is no longer considered a necessary subject in the modern university, and explores the role it should play in the development of our -knowledge-
  
• Considers how theology is often excluded from the knowledges of the modern university because these are constituted by an understanding...

A -how-to- book on theology from a world-renowned theologian
In this book Stanley Hauerwas returns to the basics of -doing- theology. Revisiting some of his earliest philosophical and theological views to better understand and clarify what he has said before, Hauerwas explores how theological reflection can be understood as an exercise in practical reason.
Hauerwas includes chapters on a wide array of topics, including -How I Think I Learned to Think Theologically, - -How the Holy Spirit Works, - -How to Write a Theological Sentence, - and -How to Be Theologically Funny.- In a...