Backpacking Through the Anglican Communion: A Search for Unity - Brossura

Zink, Jesse

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ISBN 10: 0819229016 ISBN 13: 9780819229014

Casa editrice: Morehouse Pub Co, 2014

Riassunto

The Anglican Communion is said to be coming apart at the seams. But is that really true? Backpacking Through the Anglican Communion is the exciting new book that challenges the tired narrative of Anglican disunity.

Jesse Zink has traveled tens of thousands of miles around the world, visiting and worshiping with Anglicans in some of the Communion’s most diverse provinces—Nigeria, the largest province ministering in an unstable political environment; South Sudan, at one point the fastest-growing church in the world, now rebuilding after devastating civil wars; England, the mother church of Anglicans, struggling to adjust to a new, secular age; South Africa, a church dealing with the legacy of entrenched discrimination and rapid social change.

The story Zink learns at the grassroots level of the church is far different from the one that dominates its highest levels. He shows that when conversations about power, history, and sexuality are undertaken in a spirit of mutuality and trust, they can strengthen, not weaken, the Anglican Communion. The result is a book that presents vivid slices of Anglican life around the world, argues convincingly that unity is central to the Communion’s mission, and presents a credible path to achieving that unity in a global church. It is a book that will be sure to shape coming debates about the future of the Anglican Communion.

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L'autore:

Jesse Zink is a doctoral student at Cambridge University, and a former news reporter, missionary, and ambulance driver. He also is an Episcopal priest, assistant chaplain at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and author of Grace at the Garbage Dump: Making Sense of Mission in the Twenty-First Century, which draws on his experiences in a shantytown of South Africa.

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• Editore: Morehouse Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0819229016
• ISBN 13: 9780819229014
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 198