A01=John B. Thomson
anglican
Anglican ecclesiology
Anglican Mission
Aquinas
Author_John B. Thomson
Cambridge
Cambridge UK
Cambridge University
Category=NH
Category=QRA
Category=QRAB
Category=QRM
Census
CHP.
christian
Christian Existence Today
common
Common Worship
contemporary Anglican identity challenges
Contemporary Society
discipleship studies
Disengage
Ecclesial Canopy
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
expressions
Face To Face
Follow
fresh
Fresh Expressions
Fresh Expressions Movement
God's Friendship
gods
God’s Friendship
Good Life
hauerwas
kenotic Christology
Kevin Ward
mission
Mission Shaped Church
Ordinary Theology
Peaceable Performance
Pope Gregory The Great
post-liberal theology
Samuel Wells
secularisation impact
stanley
theological ethics
Timeless
worship
Product details
- ISBN 9781138053342
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Sharing Friendship represents a post-liberal approach to ecclesiology and theology generated out of the history, practices and traditions of the Anglican Church. Drawing on the theological ethics of Stanley Hauerwas, this book explores the way friendship for the stranger emerges from contextually grounded reflection and conversations with contemporary Anglican theologians within the English tradition, including John Milbank, Oliver O’Donovan, Rowan Williams, Daniel Hardy and Anthony Thiselton. Avoiding abstract definitions of character, mission or friendship, John Thomson explores how the history of the English Church reflects a theology of friendship and how discipleship in the New Testament, the performance of worship, and the shape of Anglican ecclesiology are congruent with such a theology. The book concludes by rooting the theme of sharing friendship within the self-emptying kenotic performance of Jesus’ mission, and looks at challenges to the character of contemporary Anglican ecclesiology represented by secularization and globalization as well as by arguments over appropriate new initiatives such as Fresh Expressions.
John B. Thomson is Bishop of Selby in the Diocese of York. He has been Director of Ministry in the Diocese of Sheffield, vicar of an inner urban parish, a theological educator in England and South Africa and a youth chaplain in a suburban parish. He has lived and worked in central and southern Africa and in South Yorkshire, England. Published works include The Ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas: A Christian Theology of Liberation (2003), Church on Edge? Practising Christian Ministry Today (2004), DOXA: A Discipleship Course (2007) and Living Holiness: Stanley Hauerwas and the Church (2010). He has also written a number of articles on church, ministry and mission most recently ’Sharing Friendship: God’s Love in Ordinary Church Life’ in Jeff Astley and Leslie J Francis, eds., Exploring Ordinary Theology - Dimensions of Everyday Christian Existence and the Life of the Church (2013) and 'Let us cook you your tea, vicar!' Church, hermeneutics and postmodernity in the work of Anthony Thiselton and Stanley Hauerwas’ in Stanley E. Porter and Matthew Malcolm, eds., Hermeneutics, Paul and Theology: A Festschrift in Honor of Anthony C. Thiselton (2013).
