1st Edition
The Future Shapes of Anglicanism Currents, contours, charts
Introduction: The Future Shape of Anglicanism
Part One: Currents, Contours, Charts
1. Growth and Management in the Church of England – Some Charts
2. New Currents in Executive and Archiepiscopal Leadership
3. The Emerging Contours of Archiepiscopal Leadership
Part Two: Money, Sex and Power – Divisions and Diversities
4. Future Possibilities for Funding the Ministry of the Church of England
5. Spartacus: Modelling Rebellion in the Church
6. Power in the Church? Congregations, Churches and the Anglican Communion
Part Three: Maps and Forecasts
7. Future Directions of Travel
8. Re-Charting the Church
9. Old Maps for New Territories
Conclusion: Back to the Future?
Coda: The Churchgoer’s Charter
Biography
Martyn Percy is Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. He is a member of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford, where he also teaches in the Department of Sociology, and for the Said Business School. He also serves as a Professor of Theological Education at King’s College London and a Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, University of London. He was formerly (from 2004-2014) the Principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon, at Oxford. He writes on Christianity and contemporary culture, modern ecclesiology and practical theology. Recent books include Thirty-Nine New Articles: An Anglican Landscape of Faith (2013), Anglicanism: Confidence, Commitment and Communion (2013) and The Oxford Handbook of Anglican Studies (2015, and edited with Mark Chapman and Sathi Clarke). He was recently described in the journal Theology as the British theologian who is closest to being a ‘missionary anthropologist’.
"Percy offers other pointed criticisms of his church. For example, he questions the way in which central authorities seem to be amassing more and more power. He traces this in part to the tendency in British evangelical circles to elevate leading clergy to superstar status. ... Readers will find that Percy’s writings contain many wonderful asides from someone who is a careful observer." -- The Rev. J. Douglas Ousley, The Living Church
