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The Episcopal Church in crisis : how sex, the Bible, and authority are dividing the faithful
- Title
- The Episcopal Church in crisis : how sex, the Bible, and authority are dividing the faithful / Frank G. Kirkpatrick.
- Author
- Kirkpatrick, Frank G.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- xxvi, 219 p.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Religion, politics, and public life, 1934-290X
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-205) and index.
- Contents
- The beginnings of the crisis -- The resolution that shaped the debate and the election that shook the communion -- "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world" -- The way we were: historical background -- From Rome to post-establishment America by way of Canterbury -- "Things fall apart" -- The bishops assembled: the Lambeth Conferences from 1867 to the present -- "Surely some revelation is at hand" -- The uncompleted struggle for women's ordination: from defective men to the 'conscience clause' -- "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed" -- From Robinson's election to the present -- From the Chapman memo to the Windsor Report: the tension between unity, uniformity, and Episcopal authority -- "The centre cannot hold" -- From Dromantine to San Joaquin -- "The worst are full of passionate intensity" -- Perspectives from the discontented -- The conservative plea for moral certainty and ecclesiastical discipline -- "Spiritus mundi troubles my sight" -- The communion in Africa : from imperially colonized to moral colonizers -- "Somewhere in the sands of the desert" -- Biblical perspectives on slavery and homosexuality -- Reconciling natural law, biblical truth, and the moral abomination of slavery -- "Twenty centuries of stony sleep" -- The Bible, sex, and the contest of interpretations -- "A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun" -- Conclusion: The shape of the future.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-5011
- ISBN
- 9780313346620 (alk. paper)
- 0313346623 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008008994
- OCLC
- 213384819
- vendorOCN213384819
- Author
- Kirkpatrick, Frank G.
- Title
- The Episcopal Church in crisis : how sex, the Bible, and authority are dividing the faithful / Frank G. Kirkpatrick.
- Imprint
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
- Series
- Religion, politics, and public life, 1934-290X
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-205) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-5011