商品簡介
The Anglican Communion has seen dramatic church growth and decline across recent decades. This book provides the first detailed study of such growth and decline by means of a wide range of case studies across five continents, prefaced by a substantial introductory chapter and followed by a short conclusion. Drawing on new research from a range of disciplines, balancing western and non-western scholarship. contributors give serious attention to both the non-western and the western elements of the Anglican communion. Exploring beyond the study of Anglicanism, the volume situates the trajectories of the various provinces of Anglicanism, alongside the trajectories of other Christian churches and wider debates about secularisation and ’re-sacralisation’. This book offers invaluable insights for a wide range of readers: in the Anglican church, in academia and beyond, particularly in light of the Lambeth Conference 2018.
作者簡介
David Goodhew is Director of Ministerial Practice at Cranmer Hall, St Johns College, Durham. Prior to Cranmer, he was a parish priest in York and before that, Chaplain and Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He has published widely in the fields modern British and South African history. He edited the controversial study Church Growth in Britain: 1980 to the Present (Ashgate 2012) and the volume Towards a Theology of Church Growth (Ashgate 2014).
