03774nam a2200541Ki 4500 ocn890146846 OCoLC 20200709060213.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 140908s2014 oru ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T 9781630871703 (electronic bk.) 1630871702 (electronic bk.) 9781610974035 1610974034 (OCoLC)890146846 834175 (N$T) BX5008.5 .D75 2014eb REL 067050 bisacsh 262/.03 23 N$TA Driver, Jeffrey W. A polity of persuasion : gift and grief of Anglicanism / Jeffrey W. Driver ; foreword by Bruce N. Kaye. Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (xii, 171 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-157) and indexes. Dispersed authority--dispersed communion? -- Authority, conflict, and communion -- Windsor and the Windsor Covenant--trending more towards the center -- Communion and the dialectic of open reception -- A "down-under" perspective: communion themes and Australian debates -- Developing a polity of persuasion for the twenty-first century -- Holy Trinity--unholy conflict? At an international level, Anglicanism has almost no mandating or juridical power. Stresses and threats of division over issues such as human sexuality have resulted in moves to enhance the Communion's central structures and instruments. However, it is becoming clear that there is little likelihood of substantial change in this direction succeeding, at least in the medium term. The challenge for Anglicanism is to make a ''polity of persuasion'' work more effectively. This volume seeks to identify some trends and shifts of emphasis in Anglican ecclesiology to serve that end. Jeffrey Driver argues that there is more at stake in such an exercise than Anglican unity. In an ever-shrinking, pluralist, and conflicted world, where oneness is often forced by dominance, the People of God are called to model something different. The injunction of Jesus, ''it is not so among you,'' challenged his followers to use power and live in community in a way that contrasted with what occurred ''among the Gentiles'' (Mark 10:41-45). This is why the sometimes tedious debates about authority and structure in the Anglican Communion could actually matter -- because they might have something to say about being human in community, about sharing power and coexisting, about living interdependently on a tiny and increasingly stressed planet. The Anglican experiment in dispersed authority, for all its grief, could be a powerful gift. Description based on print version record. Anglican Communion Government. Anglican Communion History. Anglican Communion. fast (OCoLC)fst00808873 Anglican Communion Government. fast (OCoLC)fst00808892 RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ecclesiology bisacsh History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Electronic books. Kaye, Bruce Norman, 1939- writer of foreword. Print version: Driver, Jeffrey W. Polity of persuasion 9781610974035 (DLC) 2014412861 (OCoLC)879249011 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=834175 EBSCOhost EBSC 834175 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 55315 55315