Why I am Still an Anglican: Essays and Conversations

by Caroline Chartres

Overview

The Anglican church has been no stranger to controversy during its history but the debates raging at the moment are among the hottest it has known. This book asks some prominent Anglicans why they are still in the church and what they love about it. Representing Anglicanism in all its range and diversity, the contributors are positive about the church and their place in it, and show appreciation, rather than resentment, of a Church that is broad enough to contain those of opposing views. This is a personal, partial and affectionate (though by no means uncritical) glimpse of the Anglican Church.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826483126
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/10/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Caroline Chartres is a regular contributor to the Church press. She is married to the Bishop of London. They live in London with their four children.

Table of Contents

Emeka Anyaoku, President of the Royal Commonwealth Society (formerly Secretary-General of the Commonwealth) disentangling Anglicanism from colonialism

Anne Atkins, jourbanalist, on familial loyalties

Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, judge, on law, and the freedom to make independent judgments

Frank Field, MP, on Church and State, schools and heritage

Nicky Gumbel, author of Questions of Life, on why it's a blessing that the Alpha course had Anglican origins

Ian Hislop, satirist, in a long tradition of Anglican agnostics

PD James, author, on how the Church of England shaped her as a writer

Stephen Layton, conductor, encountering God in Spirit-filled music

Edward Lucas, jourbanalist and foreign correspondent, home thoughts from abroad: rediscovering the Church of England on foreign soil

Hugh Montefiore, RIP, bishop & environmentalist, visionary convert to Anglicanism

Rupert Sheldrake, biologist, on heresy, and why Science needs a Reformation
John Stott, theologian and evangelical, on the foundations of Anglicanism, and why evangelicals should remain in the Church of England Fay Weldon, novelist, on the Age of Original Sin -v- the Age of Therapy

Andreas Whittam Smith, First Church Estates Commissioner and Founding Editor of The Independent, on what he'd be prepared to die for

Lucy Winkett, Canon Precentor of St Paul's Cathedral, on Anglicanism from a cathedral perspective, and being a woman priest in the Church of England