The Once and Future Parish
Format:Paperback
Publisher:SCM Press
Published:28th Sep '23
Currently unavailable, currently targeted to be due back around 25th December 2024, but could change
Few other books have caused as much stir in the Church of England in recent decades as has For the Parish. Twelve years on from its publication, in the wake of the Covid pandemic and the ‘Save the Parish’ movement much has changed, but much has stayed the same.
In this follow up to this influential and controversial book, new and already familiar themes are newly inflected in the debates of the present time: principally minster hubs, the ‘Emerging Church’ programme and the Strategic Development Fund. Alison Milbank challenges the ecclesiology, models of theological anthropology and the analysis of secularism that are present (explicitly or implicitly) in these movements, and offer a striking and encouraging vision of what the parish model could offer to our anxious world.
"This fascinating justification of parish system should be compulsory reading for all who aspire to leadership within the Church." -- Angela Tilby
"Perhaps the most important book written about the Church of England in recent times. A frank acknowledgement of where we are, a clinical dissection of how we got there, and a genuine manifesto for how we move on. More than that, its prose positively drips with the beauty of holiness. It reminded me of what it is to know and love Jesus Christ in the context of the Church of England and spurred me on to want to fight for that consecrated context." -- Fergus Butler-Gallie
ISBN: 9780334063131
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144 pages