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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Anglican Communion"”.
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A Glorious and Salutiferous Œconomy...? An ecclesiological enquiry into metropolitical authority and provincial polity in the Anglican Communion.
For at least the past two decades, international Anglicanism has been gripped by a crisis of identity: what is to be the dynamic between autonomy and interdependence? Where is authority to be located? How might the local relate to the international? How are the variously diverse national churches …
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The ordination of women to the priesthood : a critical examination of the debate within the Anglican communion, 1961-1986
… the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Anglican Communion. This required, first and foremost, an historical examination of the development of the debate. Chapters 1-3 trace the movement of thought and attitude within the churches which make up the Communion, focusing particularly on the …
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A Model for Partnership: A model of partnership distilled from the relationship between Paul and the Philippian church as a tool to examine the partnership programmes of the Anglican Communion and to propose new directions.
… a model of partnership for mission in the Anglican Communion which can be used as a critical tool in order to understand the failures of the past and enable planning for the future. Throughout the thesis a consistent method of modelling is applied. This consists of the formulation of …
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Anglican-Roman Catholic Ecumenical Dialogue: A Case for a Rahnerian Logic of Symbol
… between the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion and the necessity for a symbolic cognitive and narrative conversion in both communions. Drawing upon Karl Rahner's theology of symbol, this dissertation argues that such a cognitive and narrative conversion is determined by the …
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Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Appeal of Polyphony
… the debate around the nature and future of the Anglican Communion, the debate around the place of Christianity in the increasingly secular modern West and the debate around the nature of faith presented in the works of Dostoevsky. Adopting Bakhtin’s polyphonic approach, Williams sees the need …
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Priesthood in a ministering community: Towards an ecclesiology for the Third Millennium
Within the Anglican Communion a Ministering Community is where all the people of God, the baptised in a community of faith that gathers for worship each week, are the ministers. The people are the ministers by virtue of their baptism; each one being gifted by the Holy Spirit for the mission and …
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The Church, the Constitution, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Role of the Church of England in Developing British Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy
… Government; (2) CoE members agreed upon which Anglican Communion should determine the moral and ethical implications of WMD policy; (3) the CoE put forth clear, consistent positions that support Lambeth Palace resolutions; and (4) Lords Spiritual engaged more generally in House of Lords debates.
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Anglicanism, anti-communism and Cold War Australia
The influence of the Anglican Church within Australia during the 1950s has received insufficient historical analysis, especially given its predominant numerical strength amongst Australian churches at that time. This thesis will rectify that oversight. The Anglican Communion worldwide exerted a …
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Anglican identity and contemporary relevance : a critical study of the Partners in Mission process within the Church of the Province of Southern Africa
… process and CPSA's PIM 'Vision' must be seen: Anglicanism, its origins, intentions and mission - and the tension between Anglican identity and contemporary relevance. Chapter 2 traces the process of renewal which has been described as the Anglican Communion's 'coming of age', and identifies …
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Words Make Worlds: sexuality, discourse, and the production of knowledge in the Anglican Church of Rwanda
… generating new concepts of homosexuality in the Anglican Church of Rwanda (ACR). By means of identifying and analysing Rwandan Anglican sexuality discourse, this dissertation locates as the source of such language a particular conservative discursive world within the Episcopal Church of the …
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Tractarian Male Friendships, Intimacies, and Identities in Nineteenth-Century England
… the Church; why did those who remained in the Anglican fold suddenly stop having those preoccupations after 1845; why did some Tractarians find their intellectual and moral developments landed them in the Roman fold and others remained content within the Anglican Communion; what is the …
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A theological assessment of the socio-political role of the Church of the Province of South Africa (1904-1930) with special reference to the influence of Archbishop William Marlborough Carter
… had declared itself an autonomous part of the Anglican Communion independent of British legal control. That was the first major paradigm shift in the life of the Church of the Province of South Africa. After the Treaty of Vereeniging which ended the Anglo-Boer War the CPSA shared Milner's …
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The Role of the Holy Spirit in Recent Apologetic Thought
… that certain perspectives--Reformed, Anglican-Methodist, and charismatic--have already begun to reengaged the essential work of the Spirit in apologetics. And, finally, this chapter argues that various thinkers within these perspectives will shed light on developing a more robust …