At a up to date convention entitled historic Wisdom--Anglican Futures, theologians from around the denominational spectrum thought of the query, "What does it suggest to inhabit the 'Great culture' authentically?" As an expression of what C. S. Lewis known as "Deep Church," Anglicanism deals a try out case of culture with a capital "T" in overdue modernity. Of specific curiosity is the hugely dynamic transmission that has preserved a recognizable "Anglican approach" over the centuries. the method has been enlivened via consistent negotiation and alternate with awesome convergences that experience introduced new existence and path. The individuals to this quantity convey how "profitable and commodious" (as Richard Hooker has stated) the nice culture could be in nurturing the worship, communal existence, and undertaking of the Church. however it frequently demonstrates how tough it's to uphold the numerous integrities of old religion within the modern industry of faith and, specially, between evangelicals who proceed to keep on with the Canterbury Trail.

Contributors: Simon Chan, Tony Clark, Dominic Erdozain, Edith Humphrey, D. Stephen lengthy, George Sumner, and D. H. Williams.

"Evangelicals have too lengthy suffered from a willful amnesia. of their ardour for the immediacy of God's voice within the pages of Scripture, they've got implicitly stopped their ears to the numerous and numerous methods God spoke to our fathers (and mothers). The essays during this quantity might help us music our ears to God's voice within the church's background, while we pay attention rigorously for his voice in our future."
--David Neff ,
Editor in leader & Vice President
Christianity at the present time Media Group

"Recently there was an exhilarating 'ancient-future' resourcement of the bigger church. This paintings explores the contours and nature of that move, via a veritable cornucopia of essays, from evangelical, to pentecostal and rising. This difficult mapping pronounces that the data of the church are actually open to all, when even as delivering a far wanted advisor to using these assets for Christian formation."
--Jason Clark
Emergent U.K. Coordinator
Pastor, Putney winery Church, London, UK

"Much greater than simply providing a decision for allegiance to the good culture, this number of essays truly engages the harsh query what such allegiance could appear like at the floor. we discover the following a standard popularity that this attempt unavoidably includes what T. S. Eliot known as a 'great labour.' fortunately, this e-book itself kinds a tremendous contribution of this nice labour."
--Hans Boersma
J. I. Packer Professor of Theology
Regent College

D. H. Williams is Professor of faith in Patristics and ancient Theology at Baylor collage, Waco, Texas. William's fresh books contain Tradition, Scripture and Interpretation (Baker, 2006).

Philip Harrold is affiliate Professor of Church historical past, Trinity institution for Ministry, Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Harrold's most modern booklet is A position a bit of aside: the non-public Worlds of a overdue Nineteenth-Century Public University (Wipf & inventory, 2006).