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  • Revelation and the Word of God
    Paul Avis
    Why is revelation so elusive? What does it mean to say, as the Bible does, that God ’speaks’ and ’acts’? How does revelation relate to the Bible, history, religious experience and the church?A unique work of Fundamental Theology, Revelation and the Word of God explores these key issues of divine revelation as open questions. Paul Avis tackles existential and philosophical probl...
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    154,26 €

  • Theology and the Enlightenment
    Paul Avis
    Challenging the common assumption that the Enlightenment of the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries was an essentially secular, irreligious and atheistic movement, this book critiques this standard interpretation as based on a narrow view of Enlightenment sources. Building on the work of revisionist historians, this volume takes the argument squarely into the theologi...
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    153,50 €

  • Reconciling Theology
    Paul Avis
    Leading thinker on Anglicanism and ecumenism Paul Avis focuses on the perennial Christian issues of argument, debate, polemic and conflict, on the one hand, and dialogue, search for common ground, working for agreement and harmony, on the other. Exploring the tension and interaction between them in a range of contexts in modern theology and the Church, Avis offers a rigorous bu...
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    65,31 €

  • Jesus and the Church
    Paul Avis
    What is church’s true foundation? Was the Christian church founded by Jesus, or does ’the Eucharist make the church’? Paul Avis sets out his own answer to these questions. Gathering a wide range of critical scholarship, he argues that there is something solid and dependable at the foundation of the church’s life and mission. Avis argues that Jesus wanted a church in a sense, bu...
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    57,60 €

  • Jesus and the Church
    Paul Avis
    What is church’s true foundation? Was the Christian church founded by Jesus, or does ’the Eucharist make the church’? Paul Avis sets out his own answer to these questions. Gathering a wide range of critical scholarship, he argues that there is something solid and dependable at the foundation of the church’s life and mission. Avis argues that Jesus wanted a church in a sense, bu...
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    193,48 €

  • The Vocation of Anglicanism
    Paul Avis
    Paul Avis charts a pathway of theological integrity through the serious challenges facing the Anglican Communion in the first quarter of the 21st century. He asks whether there is a special calling for Anglicanism as an expression of the Christian Church and expounds the Anglican theological tradition to shed light on current controversies. He argues in conclusion that Anglican...
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    61,73 €

  • Foundations of Modern Historical Thought
    Paul Avis
    This book, originally published in 1986, provides an in-depth critical introduction to the historical thought of some of the most influential thinkers of Western culture, from Machiavelli’s reflections on history and power to the revolutionary intuitions of Giambattista Vico’s New Science of historical understanding, taking in Bodin, Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, ...
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    51,84 €

  • The Vocation of Anglicanism
    Paul Avis
    Paul Avis charts a pathway of theological integrity through the serious challenges facing the Anglican Communion in the first quarter of the twentieth century. He asks whether there is a special calling for Anglicanism as an expression of the Christian Church and expounds the Anglican theological tradition to shed light on current controversies. He argues in conclusion that Ang...
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    206,75 €

  • Becoming a Bishop
    Paul Avis
    Why Bishops? What’s so special about Bishops? What are Bishops called to and how best can they do it? This book is the single resource of answers to all the questions one could conceivably have about what a Bishop is and their function and purpose in the Church.Paul Avis offers a fascinating account of the ministerial identity of the bishop, and in particular the tasks and rol...
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    206,93 €

  • Becoming a Bishop
    Paul Avis
    Why Bishops? What’s so special about Bishops? What are Bishops called to and how best can they do it? This book is the single resource of answers to all the questions one could conceivably have about what a Bishop is and their function and purpose in the Church.Paul Avis offers a fascinating account of the ministerial identity of the bishop, and in particular the tasks and rol...
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    47,53 €

  • In Search of Authority
    Paul Avis
    Anglican theology has been a hotbed of debate about theissue of authority since the Reformation. What do we really appeal to whenattempting to decide matters of doctrine, worship, ministry or ethics? Thedebate is very much alive today, between Evangelical, Liberal and CatholicAnglicans around the world. This proposed book focuses on the understanding of authority in Anglican th...
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    205,77 €

  • The Journey of Christian Initiation
    Harriet Harris / Martin Davie / Paul Avis
    This helpful volume sets out to clarify the Church of England’s thinking about baptism, confirmation and admission to communion, and addresses some very practical questions in relation to ministry in this area. Discussion of the topic is grounded in the New Testament and the early Church, and is traced through the development of the Church’s theology and practice of initiation ...
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    36,76 €

  • The Anglican Understanding of the Church
    Paul D. L. Avis / Paul DLAvis
    A short guide to the origins, structure and values of the Churches of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Paul Avis explains and clarifies the history and theology involved, and introduces concepts in a structured way, making the book clear to those who may be coming to these issues for the first time. It is also an invaluable aide-mémoire and reference tool for the specialist, p...
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    13,31 €

  • Reshaping Ecumenical Theology
    Paul Avis
    Reshaping Ecumenical Theology is a major contribution to the study of the Church. It provides clear and authoritative orientation for the student, while probing deep into a range of key issues in ecclesiology and ecumenical dialogue from a critical standpoint that will stimulate discussion among scholars and ecumenists. It reclaims some old orthodoxies, while challenging ...
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    258,95 €

  • Reshaping Ecumenical Theology
    Paul Avis
    Reshaping Ecumenical Theology is a major contribution to the study of the Church. It provides clear and authoritative orientation for the student, while probing deep into a range of key issues in ecclesiology and ecumenical dialogue from a critical standpoint that will stimulate discussion among scholars and ecumenists. It reclaims some old orthodoxies, while challenging some n...
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    61,66 €

  • Beyond the Reformation?
    Paul D. L. Avis
    Beyond the Reformation? sheds fresh light on divisive issues of authority in the Christian Church and puts them in a new historical and ecumenical perspective. Against the background of the perennial tension between the mystical and the institutional dynamics in the life of the Church, it goes beyond the tragic divisions of the Reformation era in two major ways. First, it exami...
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    103,29 €

  • The Identity of Anglicanism
    Paul Avis
    Anglicanism can be wonderful, mystifying and infuriating. For some it is an expression of the Church catholic, going back to the early Church and the apostles. For others it is a pragmatic compromise dating from Henry VIII’s dynastic ambitions. Some see Anglicanism today as self-destructing, torn apart by internal pressures.Paul Avis expounds an Anglicanism that is both catholi...
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    65,55 €

  • Faith in the Fires of Criticism
    Paul Avis
    Have the ’fires’ of modern criticism melted away Christianity’s claim to truth? Seminal thinkers such as Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche and Freud argued that religious belief is nothing more than an illusion, triggered by our own psychological and social needs. Jung claimed that traditional Christianity was a gross distortion of the divine. Paul Avis does not deny the reality of th...
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    20,58 €

  • A Ministry Shaped by Mission
    Paul D. L. Avis
    The book falls into three symmetrical parts, each of which is subdivided (the subdivisions are listed in the analytical Contents, making a Subject Index redundant). The first part, ’The Mission of God that Shapes our Ministry’, draws on the missiological insights of Karl Barth and the Second Vatican Council concerning the missio Dei and directly relates this theme to the tasks ...
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    67,24 €

  • Seeking the Truth of Change in the Church
    Paul D. L. Avis
    This timely book, which arises out of consultations under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Christian Church, examines the Church of England’s decision to ordain women to the priesthood and to make pastoral provision for those opposed. It attempts to discover and define the theological principles underlying both the ordination of women and the determination of the...
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    68,35 €

  • Seeking the Truth of Change in the Church
    Paul Avis
    This timely book, which arises out of consultations under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Christian Church, examines the Church of England’s decision to ordain women to the priesthood and to make pastoral provision for those opposed. It attempts to discover and define the theological principles underlying both the ordination of women and the determination of the...
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    317,90 €

  • A Church Drawing Near
    Paul D. L. Avis
    The book begins by defining the core tasks (or mission) of the Church in biblical and theological terms, and then asks how these tasks can best be carried out in the conditions of modernity and post-modernity.Paul Avis describes and evaluates contemporary expressions of spirituality, drawing on many empirical studies; the functions of the Churchs occasional offices or rites of ...
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    122,97 €

  • Anglicanism and the Christian Church
    Paul Avis
    This is a work of considerable strategic importance for the ecumenical movement and for the Anglican Communion. It describes and interprets Anglican understanding of the Christian Church, from the Reformation to the present day.This book presents the development of Anglican identity and ecclesiology in its historical context, focusing particularly on Anglican engagement with th...
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    75,10 €

  • Anglican Understanding Church - An Introduction
    Paul D. L. Avis / Paul DLAvis
    The Anglican answer to this question is clearly given in this unrivalled short guide to the origins, structure, ministry and values of the Churches of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Paul Avis explains and clarifies the history and theology involved. The reader is introduced to the concepts in a structured way, making the book clear to those who may be coming to these issues ...
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    21,63 €

  • God and the Creative Imagination
    Paul Avis
    In God and the Creative Imagination, Paul Avis argues that metaphor, symbol and myth, are the key to a real knowledge of God and the sacred. ...
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    268,24 €

  • God and the Creative Imagination
    Paul Avis
    In God and the Creative Imagination, Paul Avis argues that metaphor, symbol and myth, are the key to a real knowledge of God and the sacred. ...
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    74,81 €