A Still More Excellent Way
Authority and Polity in the Anglican Communion
1st Edition
Published on 10. July 2020
238 pages
978-0-334-05934-9 (ISBN)
Description
"A Still More Excellent Way" presents a comprehensive account of the development and nature of metropolitical authority and the place of the 'province' within Anglican polity, with an emphasis on the contemporary question of how international Anglicanism is to be imagined and take shape. The first comprehensive historical examination of the development of metropolitical authority and provincial polity within international Anglicanism, the book offers hope to those wearied by the deadlock and frustration around questions of authority which have dogged Anglicanism.
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Alexander Ross is a parish priest in the Diocese of Melbourne. He was previously Associate Dean and Bye-Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK.
Content
- Intro
- A Still More Excellent Way
- Contents
- Foreword
- Methodological Introduction
- Discerning the Anglican 'Character'
- Does the Anglican Communion Even Exist?
- Promoting an Appreciation of Polity within Anglican Studies
- Chapter Outline
- Notes
- Part One The Pedigree of a Polity
- Note
- 1 'A Glorious and Salutiferous Oconomy': Provincial Polity Established
- Joseph Bingham and the Origines Ecclesiasticae
- Provincial Polity in the Canons of the Early Church
- Augustine of Canterbury and Provincial Polity in the British Isles
- An Ecclesial 'Coping Stone': The English Reformation and the Royal Supremacy
- Notes
- 2 The Mean Between the Streams: Provincial Polity Adapted and Abolished
- Anglicans Abroad: From 'National' to 'International'
- Preserving the 'Episcopal Persuasion': Provincial Polity in Scotland
- Eastern Gentlemen and Western Conventions: Provincial Polity in the USA
- Cracks in the Coping Stone: Provincial Polity in Ireland
- Notes
- 3 Colonial Communion: Provincial Polity Exported
- The Uneasy Legacy of Colonialism
- Cold Baths and Hot Sunbeds: the Establishment of the Metropolitical See of Calcutta
- The Uncertain Authority of Royal Letters Patent
- Australia and the Legacy of William Grant Broughton Re-Evaluated
- The Bishops' Conference of 1850
- The 'Colenso Affair': Provincial Autonomy and the Royal Prerogative
- Notes
- Part Two The National Church
- Notes
- 4 'Contained' or Compromised Catholicity: a Critique of the 'National Church'
- 'Nationality and Liberty': Provincial Polity Gives Way to the 'National Church'
- The Language of Lambeth: 1920-1948
- Ecclesial and National Polities
- Current Trends in International Relations for Ecclesial Reflection
- Recognition, Hegel and Rowan Williams
- Nuancing National Polities: Opportunities for Further Ecclesiological Reflection
- Notes
- 5 Independence or Interdependence: A Close Reading of Communion Constitutions
- The Archives of the Anglican Communion Office
- General Observations
- The Archbishop of Canterbury in Provincial Constitutions
- The Legacy of 'Mutual Responsibility and Interdependence'
- Toward the Common Codification of Metropolitical Authority and Provincial Polity
- Notes
- Part Three The Rise of the Primates
- Notes
- 6 Primus Inter Pares: All Bishops are Equal, but Some are More Equal than Others
- Prima Sedes: Papal or Primatial?
- Primacy of Honour
- Primacy, the Pseudo-Isidorian Forgeries and the Rivalry between Canterbury and York
- Primates with Power and the Notitia Galliarum
- The Problematic Appropriation of Primacy within Anglicanism
- Notes
- 7 'Leisurely thought, prayer and deep consultation': The Primates' Meetings
- The Primates' Meetings and the Anglican Consultative Council: an Uneasy Relationship
- The Legacy of the Lambeth Consultative Body Reconsidered
- The Early Primates' Meetings
- Collective Primacy: Conciliarity and Collegiality
- 'The Anglican Communion: Identity and Authority': The Rise of the Primates
- The Limits of Primatial Responsibility: Intervention or Interference?
- 'To Mend the Net': the Primates Push for an 'Enhanced Role'
- The 2016 Primates' 'Gathering' (A meeting by any other name . . .)
- Notes
- Part Four Paradigm for Provincial Revival
- Notes
- 8 The Anglican Church of Australia: 'Microcosm' or 'Ecclesiastical Monstrosity'?
- The Origins of Australian 'Diocesanism'
- Provincial Polity in Australia
- The Province of Queensland: an Exception
- Diocese, Province and National Church in Australia
- Australia as a 'Microcosm' of the Communion
- Notes
- 9 Provincial Possibilities: a Theological Reflection on the Potential of Provincial Polity
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
- Provincial Response to Professional Standards and Safeguarding in Victoria
- Provincial Polity as Demonstrating the Four Marks of the Church
- Provincial Polity and the Church's Unity
- Provincial Polity and the Church's Holiness
- Provincial Polity and the Church's Catholicity
- Provincial Polity and the Church's Apostolicity
- Notes
- Conclusion
- Recapitulation
- Final Remarks
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General Works Cited
- Index
