The Vocation of Anglican Theology

Ralph Mcmichael

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The Vocation of Anglican Theology seeks to present a contemporary Anglican theology rooted in its sources but reaching into the future. A range of leading Anglican theologians, including Rowan Williams, Ellen Charry, Kenneth Stevenson, Mark Chapman and Kathryn Tanner reflect on key theological subjects such as Christology, ecclesiology and eschatology.

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• Publié par: Hymns Ancient & Modern
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780334052074
• Langue: English

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The Vocation of Anglican Theology
The Vocation of Anglican Theology

Edited by Ralph McMichael
© The Editors and Contributors 2014

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In Memoriam:
Richard Norris and Kenneth Stevenson
Contents
Contributors
Introduction

1 What does Canterbury have to do with Jerusalem? The Vocation of ­Anglican Theology
Ralph McMichael
2 The Trinity
Richard Norris
3 Christology
Rowan Williams
4 Theological Anthropology
Kathryn Tanner
5 The Church
Mark D. Chapman
6 The Beauty of Holiness: Practical Divinity
Ellen T. Charry
7 The Sacraments
Kenneth Stevenson
8 Eschatology
Christopher A. Beeley

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Contributors
Christopher A. Beeley is the Walter H. Gray Associate Professor of Anglican Studies and Patristics at Yale Divinity School. He teaches early Christian theology and history and modern Anglican tradition. Dr Beeley is the author of Leading God’s People: Wisdom from the Early Church for Today (2012), The Unity of Christ: Continuity and Conflict in Patristic Tradition (2012), and Gregory of Nazianzus on the Trinity and the Knowledge of God (2008). An Episcopal priest, he has served parishes in Connecticut, Indiana, Texas and Virginia.
Mark D. Chapman is Dean of College and Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Ripon College Cuddesdon, where he teaches modern church history, theology, ecclesiology and Anglicanism, as well as being a reader in modern theology in the University of Oxford. He has written and edited books in many different areas of theology and church history. Dr Chapman’s many publications include Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction (2006), Anglican Theology (2012) and The Fantasy of Reunion: Anglicans, Catholics, and Ecumenism 1833–1882 (2014).
Ellen T. Charry is the Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Her interest is in human flourishing in Christian perspective. Her monographs are Franz Rosenzweig and the Freedom of God (1987), By the Renewing of your Minds (1997) and God and the Art of Happiness (2010). She is past editor of Theology Today (1997–2004), and was a member of the Theology Committee of the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church (1998–2010). Dr Charry has served on the editorial boards of the Scottish Journal of Theology and Pro Ecclesia .
Ralph McMichael is Director and Founder of the Center for the Eucharist located in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Dr McMichael has been an Anglican priest for over 30 years, having served as a seminary professor, dean of a diocesan school for ministry, canon for ministry formation and in parish ministry. Author of two books and editor of another one, he has written, taught and lectured extensively on the history, theology and practice of the Eucharist. His newest book, Eucharist: A Guide for the Perplexed was published in 2010.
Richard Norris was a professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York City (1978–96), and was Professor Emeritus there and Honorary Canon Theologian of the Episcopal Diocese of New York upon his death in 2009. Dr Norris was the author of many distinguished volumes in church history and theology. His most recent work was a large collection of translated commentaries on the Song of Songs, from the early and medieval Church. Earlier works included Manhood and Christ (1963), God and World in Early Christian Theology (1965) and The Christological Controversy (1980).
Kenneth Stevenson was the Bishop of Portsmouth (1995–2009), Rector of Holy Trinity, Guildford (1986–95) and Chaplain and Lecturer at the University of Manchester (1980–86). Dr Stevenson authored and edited numerous publications in the areas of liturgics, sacramental theology and Anglicanism. These works include co-editing Love’s Redeeming Work (2004), co-writing The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Anglican Tradition (2012), authoring The Mystery of Baptism in the Anglican Tradition (1998) and Covenant of Grace Renewed: Vision of the Eucharist in the Seventeenth Century (1994). Bishop Stevenson died in 2011.
Kathryn Tanner is Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School. Her research relates the history of Christian thought to contemporary issues of theological concern using social, cultural and feminist theory. Dr Tanner’s publications include The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice (1992), Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology (2001), Economy of Grace (2005) and Christ the Key (2010). For eight years she has been a member of the Theology Committee that advises the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops. In 2015–16, she will deliver the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Rowan Williams is Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, after serving as the Archbishop of Canterbury (2002–12). Dr Williams has taught theology, patristics and ascetical theology in a variety of institutions including the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He has authored several volumes representing a wide scope of interests including poetry, Russian literature, spir­ituality, early Christian theology as well as the relationship between faith and culture. A widely sought after speaker, Dr Williams gave the Gifford Lectures in 2013. Some of his publications are On Christian Theology (2000), Anglican Identities (2004), Resurrection (1982) and The Wound of Knowledge (1979).
Introduction
The Anglican Communion is under strain, if not fragmentation, depending upon who is making the observation. An appraisal of the state of the Anglican Communion, as well as how it got into this ‘state’, issues from a theological perspective, whether explicitly acknowledged or not. Some might point to particular decisions and actions within the Anglican Communion as the provocation for this ecclesial and theological instability. Others might trace a theological instability to the beginnings of what became Anglicanism. That is, as a hybrid of Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, with a little Eastern Orthodoxy thrown in for good measure, Anglicanism has always been on the brink of an identity crisis, and now under postmodern pressure, the canonical, theological or liturgical glue that held it together has melted, and the whole thing has fallen apart. Is this a time for lament or rejoicing; is it a time for nostalgia or renewal? However one answers these questions, or wherever one is on the theological and ecclesial spectrum of the Anglican Communion, it is time for a deep, habitual and pervasive engagement with our common theological tradition as Anglicans.
This volume of new essays by Anglican theologians, along with excerpts from the work of Anglican theologians from the tradition, is one effort towards a theological renewal within Anglicanism. It is an invitation to inhabit the Anglican theological imagination. Any authentic renewal begins with the basics, and this volume contains essays on some of the basic subjects of theology: Trinity, Jesus Christ, humanity, grace, the Church, sacraments and eschatology. The sources sections of this volume include excerpts drawn not only from the typ­ical theological treatise but from sermons, poems, prayers and hymns, which collectively tell us something about the nature of Anglican theology. Renewal starts at the centre of faith and works it way out from there. So, while the reader will find treatment of the basics of the Christian faith as presented by Anglican theologians, she or he will not find either a comprehensive survey of theology or one representative of the diversity of Anglicanism. This volume cannot stand alone, and the reader or student of Anglican theology is encouraged to locate and delve into an ever-increasing array of books and materials on Anglicanism in all of its maddening and delightful diversity.
The purpose of this volume is twofold: to introduce the student to the basics of Christian theology, as articulated by Anglicans, and to invite the reader into a serious and intentional study of the Anglican theological tradition and of the contemporary efforts of Anglican theologians. Thus, this volume is offered for use in courses on Anglican theology, hopefully found within the required curriculum of every Anglican seminary and theological college. Also, as so many Anglicans do not come to the study of theology within an Anglican institution, this volume serves as a text that they can adopt for their theological formation. Likewise, since theology is increasingly done not in ecclesial and confessional isolation, this volume can p