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Common Prayer on Common Ground: A Vision of Anglican Orthodoxy
Responding to the controversy and divisiveness within the Anglican Communion, particularly over the issue of homosexuality, Alan Jones offers a more balanced look at the middle way to be found within Anglican orthodoxy. With its focus on careful listening and prayerful deliberation, Jones's vision of orthodoxy is the antidote to the anger and bitterness that threatens the Body of Christ today.
In this thoughtful volume, Jones takes a look at Anglicanism from four different perspectives, fundamentalism versus modernism, the tired caricature of Anglicanism as muddled thinking, as an orientation toward transcendent mystery, and through the eyes of some of Anglicanism's greatest exemplars.
In this thoughtful volume, Jones takes a look at Anglicanism from four different perspectives, fundamentalism versus modernism, the tired caricature of Anglicanism as muddled thinking, as an orientation toward transcendent mystery, and through the eyes of some of Anglicanism's greatest exemplars.
115 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2006
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December 30, 2023
2 ½ stars.
The best part by far is the final 15-page section on John Donne, which also reads like a separate essay that was tacked on to the book.
A highly uneven and irregularly bumpy ride marred by a few recurring annoyances:
* Far too many extended quotations from other writers, including obscure novelists. Every page has a long quotation from someone else.
* Far too much first-person-singular anecdote. For someone who seems to be writing about the importance of the virtue of Humility, there’s a lot of what smells a lot like hubris
* Vatican II! Buddhism! (Sic) Celtic! Eastern Orthodox Apophatic tradition! Co-opted rabbinical stories! Exclamation points!
It’s like a game of OK Boomer Bingo.
Which is really too bad. This *could* have been a good book; the author just didn’t meet the theological, ecclesiastical, and literary challenge that he gave himself.
The best part by far is the final 15-page section on John Donne, which also reads like a separate essay that was tacked on to the book.
A highly uneven and irregularly bumpy ride marred by a few recurring annoyances:
* Far too many extended quotations from other writers, including obscure novelists. Every page has a long quotation from someone else.
* Far too much first-person-singular anecdote. For someone who seems to be writing about the importance of the virtue of Humility, there’s a lot of what smells a lot like hubris
* Vatican II! Buddhism! (Sic) Celtic! Eastern Orthodox Apophatic tradition! Co-opted rabbinical stories! Exclamation points!
It’s like a game of OK Boomer Bingo.
Which is really too bad. This *could* have been a good book; the author just didn’t meet the theological, ecclesiastical, and literary challenge that he gave himself.
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