Name: Liberal Faith In A Divided Church
Price: 11 GBP
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Author: Jonathan Clatworthy
ISBN: 9781846941160

The battle lines are drawn in what some believe will be the final showdown between liberals and conservatives in the Anglican Church. If the two sides can't agree, the cracks which began to show over the ordination of women may well become an unbridgeable chasm and the church will split. The catalyst is the row over the consecration of a gay bishop in America, but Jonathan Clatworthy argues that it goes deeper than that, to the very roots of Anglicanism itself. Clatworthy believes that classical Anglican theology is by definition liberal. It affirms tradition but is open to new insights and humble enough to accept that our knowledge can never be complete or certain. The Church should be inclusive, welcoming, and open to debate, allowing differences of opinion to continue until consensus is reached. Conservative Christians see it differently; this book explains why the two views may well be irreconcilable.

Liberal Faith In A Divided Church and Making Sense of Faith in God

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This is an intelligent, well written and challenging book on a subject that is understandably of interest to those in the Anglican Communion due to its seemingly imminent collapse or split. Clatworthy looks at the whole idea of the liberalness of the Anglican Church from the position of an intelligent Liberal and he uses a well researched look at the history, philosophy and theology of the Anglican Church to offer up the argument that in point of fact the Liberal Tradition has always been a strong essential part of the Church and should not be used as a tool of diversity and a reason for split - that in fact as tradition shows it is the blending of the conservative with the liberal that has played such a part in building the church and in pushing positive change forward - and that this should still be possible with mutual acceptance and tolerance.

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