
Christian Life and Practice
Anglican Essays
Owen C. Thomas(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 1. January 2009
162 pages
978-1-4982-7028-1 (ISBN)
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This book is a study of the Christian life and the practice of Christians and the church from an Anglican perspective. It begins with an analysis and explication of the structure and process of the Christian life before God in the church and the world involving a five-fold rule of life and the relation of this to spiritual direction. This is followed by an analysis and critique of the current spirituality movement, which arose in the 1970s and which has come to dominate and mislead the churches. A sequel to the latter explains the origin of the spirituality movement in the current Romantic movement that arose in the 1960s and has influenced all aspects of our culture with ambiguous results. Next there is a critique of contemporary parish ministry as practiced in residential parishes that at best ministers only to the private lives of its members, followed by a fictional story of such a residential parish that suggests a new departure in parish ministry. Then there is a critique of preaching in the Episcopal Church that is generally considered to be poor, and a proposal of a way to overcome this. The concluding three chapters treat a fundamental problem in our approach to private prayer and a way to resolve this, a proposal for a way to overcome the current impasse in the Anglican Communion concerning homosexuality, and a meditation on the responsibility of Christians in public life.
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Eugene
United States
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Owen C. Thomas (1922 -2015) was Emeritus Professor of Theology of the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the author of eight previous books in theology and the philosophy of religion. A former physicist, he has been a visiting professor at the Gregorian University and the North American College in Rome, an adjunct professor at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and past president of the American Theological Society.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: An Anglican Interpretation of the Christian Life
- Chapter 2: Some Problems in Contemporary Christian Spirituality
- Chapter 3: Spiritual But Not Religious: The Influence of the Current Romantic Movement
- Chapter 4: Parish Ministry: A Theologian's Perspective
- Chapter 5: A Parish Story
- Chapter 6: The Poverty of Preaching in the Episcopal Church
- Chapter 7: Prayer in Anglican Practice
- Chapter 8: The Story of Two Communities
- Chapter 9: Prophecy and Politics: A Meditation
- Appendix 1: Hysteria Over Homosexuality
- Appendix 2: Activist, Movement, and Third-Party Politics
- Bibliography
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