{"title":"Church in a Secular Age: Exploring Andrew Root’s Ecclesiology and Its Implications","authors":"Elliott May","doi":"10.1177/00033286241252671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286241252671","url":null,"abstract":"Andrew Root’s recently completed “Ministry in a Secular Age” series offers a significant new contribution into the contemporary conversation about parish ministry after Christendom. Across these six volumes, Root uses the work of the philosopher Charles Taylor to construct an ecclesiological frame that re-centers divine action in the life of the church, exploring in turn various themes across Christian life and practice for a secular age. This paper examines his six-book series with the goal of offering the first in-depth critical engagement of his overall project, alongside a reflection on this series’ import for Anglican audiences. I do so by exploring his theological method and surveying his creative use of genre across the series, drawing out themes from across the six volumes, and assessing the ways in which his works do and do not scaffold as a whole.","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"18 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140966980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“You Can if You Must, but We’d Prefer It if You Didn’t”: Can We Develop a More Pastoral Theology of Abortion?","authors":"Emma Percy","doi":"10.1177/00033286241252427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286241252427","url":null,"abstract":"Some Anglican Churches have adopted permissive acceptance of abortion while expressing the hope it will be rare. This presumes competition between the welfare of the woman and that of her unborn child. In this article, I will critique statements from the Church of England and The Episcopal Church, United States through a feminist-pastoral perspective. I will look principally at early abortions which are often a response to unintended pregnancy. I will discuss abortion alongside miscarriage challenging pro-natal assumptions inherent in the Christian tradition. I will also discuss the costs of pregnancy. In doing so, I will draw on the pragmatic and pastoral strengths of Anglican theology to argue for a position that respects and supports women’s moral decision to not bring a new life into being, recognizing this can be a considered response for the welfare of a potential child as well as for the woman.","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":" 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140995438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Choosing Life in All Its Fullness: The Nature of the Abundant Life and Its Relationship to Abortion Politics","authors":"Sylvia A. Sweeney","doi":"10.1177/00033286241252147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286241252147","url":null,"abstract":"In John 10:7-10, Jesus promises that he has come so that we may have life in all its fullness. This article examines life in its fullness from an Anglican perspective, articulating a Christian ethic that asserts freedom, voice, identity, and an opportunity to flourish are essential components to such a life. Life experiences illuminate ways in which the choice about whether or not to terminate a pregnancy helped define full life for both mothers and children. These insights grow out of experiences working in a teenage parent program in Florida and as the director of a family planning clinic in the rural west. The premise of the article is that both scripture and our Anglican tradition imagine life to mean more than just subsistence, and that current prohibitions on abortion, even before fetus viability, thwart Christ’s vision for life, most poignantly for women and children in poor and rural settings.","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":" 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140996189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Austin Farrer, Anglican Theologian Preacher","authors":"J. Goldingay","doi":"10.1177/00033286241252845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286241252845","url":null,"abstract":"Austin Farrer was a notable preacher and theologian in Oxford in the mid-twentieth century. In his preaching he embodied the reality of a relationship with God, and as a thinker he took seriously and interacted with but worked in contrast with the theology of the 1960s. As a preacher he expounded the Scriptures in a distinctive lively fashion, which often drew people in, one way or another, by the distinctiveness of its introductions, though his preaching did not seem to reflect the principles of homiletics that were widely taught in his day. The fact that he died rather young (he was 64) adds significance to the prominence of death as well as life in his preaching.","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"19 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141008753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Anvil, the Ascent, and Enoch","authors":"Amy E Richter","doi":"10.1177/00033286241248635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286241248635","url":null,"abstract":"First Enoch, a pseudepigraphical work from the Second Temple period, contains visions of the natural and supernatural world that cause the visionary, Enoch, to understand anew the beyond-human world. Written during a time of environmental devastation, 1 Enoch can be a resource for helping today’s readers rewild our religious imaginations, our understanding of worship, and our relationship with nonhuman creation. This essay offers a reflection on how the Book of the Watchers in 1 Enoch and the author’s failed attempts to reach a mountain peak helped the author better understand the unseating of humanity as the center of creation as an experience of grace.","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"35 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140674368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complicating Conversations: English Anglican Perspectives on Abortion","authors":"Jenny Leith, Karen O’Donnell","doi":"10.1177/00033286241242447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286241242447","url":null,"abstract":"The question at the heart of the matter of abortion is who has the moral authority to decide whether, and under what circumstances, it is ethically justifiable for an abortion to be carried out. Public moral discourse about abortion rests moral authority in one of two poles—either legislators and/or medical professionals or the pregnant person. This article attempts to complicate this discourse through the English Anglican approach of moral discernment through conversation via the work of Rowan Williams. We offer an exploration of this approach whilst retaining first-person authority before turning to relational models of understanding pregnancy to demonstrate the potential of such a mode of moral discernment. Finally, we turn to Catherine Keller to articulate a vision of bodies as always in dialogue in order to argue that moral discernment through conversation might be particularly ontologically suitable for human beings.","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"1 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140705339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child’s Moral Imagination. Second Edition by Vigen Guroian","authors":"Joanne Leslie","doi":"10.1177/00033286241238369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286241238369","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"40 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140237605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Place and Land in Anglican Theology: Intercultural Theology in a Global World","authors":"Jesse Zink","doi":"10.1177/00033286241232690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286241232690","url":null,"abstract":"Aspects of Anglican theology have in the recent past emphasized the importance of place. Indigenous knowledge and worldviews speak of the centrality of land. Tessayshis places place-based thinking alongside land-based thinking to argue that these distinct ways of thinking can be mutually enriching and challenging. The essay limits itself primarily to Anglican-related authors while also contextualizing this theology within a broader scope of thinking about place. The paper concludes with suggestions for ways in which place- and land-based thinking can enrich Anglican approaches to ministry and mission, particularly in relation to the Doctrine of Discovery and ownership of property.","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"9 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140261901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Do We Feel Lonely at Church? by Jeremy Linneman","authors":"Frank Wade","doi":"10.1177/00033286241238183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286241238183","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"29 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140262342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unexpected Abundance: The Fruitful Lives of Women Without Children by Elizabeth Felicetti","authors":"Valerie Abrahamsen","doi":"10.1177/00033286241238175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286241238175","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8051,"journal":{"name":"Anglican theological review","volume":"53 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140077948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}