Bearing Witness in Hope

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Leading thinkers offer theoretical, contextual and practical responses to encourage a renewed love for the church and renewed energy to bear witness appropriately and creatively.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Christian Theology
• Philosophie et théologie
• Ecclesiology

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• Publié par: Hymns Ancient & Modern
• Date de parution: 28 février 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780334058700
• Langue: English

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Bearing Witness in Hope

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Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Reflections
1 A Church in Crisis? New Testament Perspectives
Richard Bauckham
2 Renewal and Reform: Reflections on a Changing Landscape
Alister McGrath
3  De Profundis : Faithful Witness in the Context of Adversity
Humphrey Southern
The Big Free Jubilee Lunch
Tina Hodgett
Part 2: Responses
4 Incarnation and Translation: The Forgotten Heart of Anglicanism
Martyn Snow
5 Living a New Story: Why We Need Creative Witness
Cathy Ross
6 Could You be Loved? BAME Presence and the Witness of Diversity and Inclusion
Carlton Turner
7 Marginal Hope: Unsystematic Reflections through Holy Week and Easter
Susanna Snyder
8 Developing Resilience: Responses to Criticism, Challenge and Change
Justine Allain-Chapman
The Story of the Winter Night Shelter
Gill O’Neill
Part 3: Witnesses
9 Faithful Presence: Response to a Community in Crisis
Alan Everett
10 To Hillsborough and Beyond: Episcopal Witness in a Secularizing Nation: A Profile of Bishop James Jones
Christopher Landau
11 What Kind of Church Are We Called to Be? A Vision for a Diocese
Steven Croft
Listening for God in Community: The Story of Leesland Neighbourhood Church
Tim Watson
Index of Names and Subjects
List of Contributors
Professor Richard Bauckham is a biblical scholar and was until 2007 Professor of New Testament Studies and Bishop Wardlaw Professor in the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is now Professor Emeritus at St Andrews. He was a member of the Doctrine Commission of the Church of England for some years. In 2009 he was awarded the Michael Ramsey Prize for his book Jesus and the Eyewitnesses , and in 2010 the Franz Delitzsch Award for his volume of collected essays The Jewish World around the New Testament.
Professor Alister McGrath is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, Oxford University. He was Gresham Professor of Divinity, 2015–18. He is the author of one of the world’s best-selling theology textbooks, Christian Theology: An Introduction , which has been translated into 15 languages. He also serves as Associate Priest, Shill Valley & Broadshire Benefice, Diocese of Oxford.
The Rt Revd Humphrey Southern has been Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon since 2015, where he teaches Pastoral Theology and contributes to courses in Ecclesiology, Church History and Leadership. He was formerly suffragan bishop of Repton in Derbyshire and a parish priest in a number of settings.
The Rt Revd Martyn Snow has been Bishop of Leicester since 2016. He also chairs the Central Readers’ Council for the Church of England and the Archbishops’ College of Evangelists. He was born in Indonesia and he and his wife have worked in West Africa. He has a love of working with diverse cultures.
Canon Dr Cathy Ross is Head of Pioneer Training at CMS (Church Mission Society), Associate Tutor at Ripon College Cuddesdon and Tutor in Mission at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. She has previously worked in Rwanda, Congo and Uganda with NZCMS and was General Secretary of the International Association for Mission Studies for eight years. She publishes in the areas of mission, pioneering, hospitality, feminist theologies and World Christianity. Her most recent publications are Mission on the Road to Emmaus (with Steve Bevans, London: SCM Press, 2015), Pioneering Spirituality (with Jonny Baker, 2015), Missional Conversations: A Dialogue between Theory and Praxis in World Mission (with Colin Smith, London: SCM Press, 2018).
The Revd Dr Carlton Turner is an Anglican theological educator at the Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, where he teaches Practical and Contextual Theology, Mission Studies, and supports the Centre for Black Theology. As a Caribbean Anglican priest from the Bahamas, he has spent some eight years serving as a priest in the Diocese of Lichfield before taking up the post at Queen’s. His PhD focused on identity dissonance within Church practices in the African Caribbean setting, looking particularly at the relationship between the Church and Junkanoo, a New World street festival in the Bahamas.
The Revd Dr Susanna Snyder is Lecturer in Ethics and Theology and Director of the Part-Time Pathway at Ripon College Cuddesdon. Following a curacy in north-east London, she moved to the US where she taught at Emory University, Episcopal Divinity School and the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on Christian social and political engagement – particularly on theological, ethical and practical responses to migration – and her publications include Asylum-Seeking, Migration and Church (Ashgate, 2012). Susanna is currently exploring contours and practices of hope in the face of global ethical challenges.
The Venerable Dr Justine Allain-Chapman is Archdeacon of Boston in the diocese of Lincoln. Ordained for over 25 years, she has ministered as a parish priest in south London and as vice principal and director of practical theology in theological education. Her doctoral research was in resilience, about which she regularly speaks and leads retreats. She has published two books on resilience, one for pastors and one a book of reflections for Lent. Justine has served on General Synod for the diocese of Southwark and for the diocese of Lincoln.
The Revd Alan Everett has ministered in London parishes for over 25 years: from July 2019 as vicar of All Saints West Dulwich; prior to that as vicar of St Clement Notting Dale and St James Norlands, in North Kensington (the Grenfell Tower parish); and for 17 years before that as vicar of St Michael and All Angels London Fields, in Hackney.
The Rt Revd James Jones was Bishop of Liverpool between 1998 and 2013, during which time he also served as Bishop to HM Prisons. He is the author of a number of books including Finding God (1987), Why Do People Suffer? (1993), The Power and the Glory (1994), A Faith that Touches the World (1994), The Moral Leader (2002) and Jesus and the Earth (2003). Following his work on the Hillsborough and Gosport War Memorial Hospital enquiries he was appointed KBE in 2017 for services to bereaved families and justice.
The Revd Dr Christopher Landau was BBC World Service religious affairs correspondent prior to ordination, and now works in postgraduate chaplaincy in Oxford, based at St Aldate’s Church. His DPhil explored the ethics of disagreement among Christians.
The Rt Revd Dr Steven Croft became Bishop of Oxford in 2016 and was previously Bishop of Sheffield. He has been a member of the House of Lords since 2013, is a member of the Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, the Board of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation and of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Environmental Change Institute. He is co-author of Emmaus: The Way of Faith (1996–2003), and one of four lead authors of the Pilgrim resource to help adults explore faith. His published works include Ministry in Three Dimensions (1999, new edn 2008) and his most recent book, The Gift of Leadership according to the Scriptures: Ten Biblical Reflections on Leadership for People in Every Walk of Life (2016). His blog is at https://blogs.oxford.anglican.org .
The Revd Gill O’Neill is the Vicar of an Anglican Church in south-east London. Previously she was a secondary RE teacher in an inner-city church. She has interests in theology and the arts, theological education and conflict resolution.
The Revd Tina Hodgett was Team Pilgrim (Pioneer Team Vicar) in Portishead and is now Evangelism and Pioneer Team Leader for the Diocese of Bath and Wells. She seeks ways of playfully engaging people with the gospel and demonstrating the values of the kingdom in the public space. Prior to ordination Tina taught German and Russian and was a leader and consultant in secondary education.
The Revd Tim Watson is a Church of England pioneer in Gosport and the minister of Leesland Neighbourhood Church which began in February 2018. He is a poet and liturgist and has various books published by Proost.
part 1
Reflections
1 A Church in Crisis? New Testament Perspectives
richard bauckham
What actually is the church? What basically, essentially, is it? In a time when we are thinking about making changes, one problem we have is that over the centuries the Church of England, with its rich history and heritage, has gathered all kinds of aspects, functions and associations around it. So it has become very easy to identify the church with things that are not essential to