Living Reconciliation - Softcover

Groves, Phil; Jones, Angharad Parry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0281072264 ISBN 13: 9780281072262

Publisher: SPCK Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

This book is intended as a platform to enable people to engage with and understand the Archbishop of Canterburys thinking on and methodology for reconciliation. Emerging from the Anglican Communion in collaboration with the Lambeth staff, the book has a strong focus on the indaba process which marked the 2008 Lambeth conference, on drawing lessons from practical stories from around the Communion, and on tying the process to the Bible at every point.

About this title

About the Author

The Revd Canon Phil Groves is Facilitator of the Continuing Indaba project, and Angharad Parry Jones is the project administrator. They both work for the Anglican Communion.

Review

Reading Living Reconciliation will help you reach out...and discover what it is to love people. --The Rev. Canon Francis Omondi, All Saints Cathedral Diocese, Anglican Church of Kenya

Living Reconciliation demonstrates practical ways...to truly listen to and learn from one another, so that we can...become more effective healers in our wounded and suffering world.
The Rev. Dr. Jacqueline R. Cameron, Dept. of Religion, Health and Human Values, Rush University

The ministry of reconciliation is one for all Christians, but it isn't easy. The Church therefore needs resources that are accessible and usable by a wide range of people. Phil Groves and Angharad Parry Jones have done us all a great service by providing just such a resource. Living Reconciliation is a simple and yet profound guide to the immensely rewarding, challenging, sometimes painful process of loving one another in and through disagreement. Their book offers a vision of Church marked by honesty, truthfulness and love. It is a people's theology which applies the teaching of the Gospel at precisely the point where we need it most today. Together with the accompanying Bible studies - and prayerful study of the scriptures is the indispensable foundation for Christian reconciliation - it offers a key to the resolution of conflict and to living with difference. More than anything else, these can be the gifts of the Anglican people to the world Church and to the world itself in our generation. Not enough of us are thinking, praying and writing about these things; but Phil and Angharad have shown us the way. Please buy, use and share this resource. You and your community need it. We all need it, and resources like it, if we are to make the journey of reconciliation our own.
The Rt. Revd. Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool
--The Rev. Dr. Jacqueline R. Cameron/The Rt. Revd. Paul Bayes

I heartily endorse this work by Phil Groves and Angharad Parry Jones as a wonderful companion to the Scriptures and the texts we use in praying for reconciliation. What I particularly appreciate is their call to the hard work that reconciliation is, requiring of us a patience and steadfastness as we see in the very purposes of God in Christ, reconciling the world to himself. I very much like the way in which Phil and Angharad have woven into the text the story of Peter and the teaching of Paul. This book explores a variety of contexts in which reconciliation is needed, approached, worked through, and celebrated. Living Reconciliation is a must read for bishops, clergy, and all others who give leadership to the Church s commitment to this ministry. It is a good resource for the councils of the Church, provincial and global. For the Church local it represents the opportunity for an eight week program on the nature and work of reconciliation. Each chapter ends with questions to think about as we seek to more fully embrace this ministry entrusted to us. A fulsome engagement with this amazing text will in truth, transform and enliven us as ambassadors for reconciliation in the name of Christ. I cannot imagine the future of our own Church and that of The Anglican Communion as a whole without a serious engagement of this invitation to Living Reconciliation . --The Most Rev. Fred J Hiltz, Primate, The Anglican Church of Canada

Edition details

• Publisher: SPCK Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0281072264
• ISBN 13: 9780281072262
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194