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Present public dialogue of faith is characterised by way of clash and acerbity. this is often due partially to the deeply opposed buildings of non secular debates: technological know-how vs faith, theism vs atheism, creationism vs evolution, etc. This booklet appears to Blake's and Wordsworth's poetry for a unique form of interpretive engagement with faith: person who can contain instead of exclude, and creatively interrelateGÇörather than destructively set at oddsGÇödifferent ways to faith. The dialogue specializes in a key non secular imaginative and prescient of every poet, and unearths its approach into the query of faith through the reception background of educational and renowned responses to those visions: the autobiographical, biographical, historic, mystical, psychedelic, and theological. those assorted interpretations replicate various features of the visions in query, and reflect their synthesizing inclusivity. because the poets negotiate various own and company studies of faith, their poetry achieves this inclusive kind of engagement no longer by means of looking an unworldly viewpoint that has transcended such debates, yet via making spiritual imaginative and prescient an open assembly floor for conflicting discourses.
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11 A new episkope for a new age A series of questions about the nature of leadership in the Christian churches is emerging. Are there some essential ingredients which make the concept of episkope work as an overarching idea? What is it that makes this kind of governance continue and form the backbone of the largest of our historic denominations? The focus on episcopal leadership arising from studies of local and regional leadership is essential and timely. Episcopal leadership is not about ‘command and control’ or about the creation or perpetuation of a ‘ruling class’ among church leaders.
These benefits are clear for the local church and have to be exemplified in the practice of senior leaders if they are to play a respected part in the exercise of leadership. The landmark report which looked at episcopacy and the work of bishops in modern times was produced by a group commissioned by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York with Chancellor Sheila Cameron QC as its chair. indb 35 29/11/2010 13:47 36 leadership and oversight membership found agreement hard to reach and events in the world church concerning the ordination of women as priests and a first woman in the United States consecrated as a bishop put pressure on it to reach conclusions and make recommendations.
In a time of reflection and with a moratorium on further divisive meetings, she hopes that through the deliberate use of listening techniques some semblance of charity might be restored. Her ultimate aim is that Anglicans relearn the ways in which they can share and experience hospitality. While perceptive and vital, this alone will not fill the vacuum in a way which will bring about lasting change. It will create the right conditions. The change needed is the rediscovery of what it is that binds episcopal churches together.