A Still More Excellent Way: Authority and Polity in the Anglican Communion (SCM Research)

by Alexander Ross

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For at least the past two decades, international Anglicanism has been gripped by a crisis of identity: what is to be the dynamic between autonomy and interdependence? Where is authority to be located? How might the local relate to the international? How are the variously diverse national churches to be held together 'in communion'?

"A Still More Excellent Way" presents a comprehensive account of the development and nature of metropolitical authority and the place of the 'province' within Anglican polity, with an emphasis on the contemporary question of how international Anglicanism is to be imagined and take shape. The first comprehensive historical examination of the development of metropolitical authority and provincial polity within international Anglicanism, the book offers hope to those wearied by the deadlock and frustration around questions of authority which have dogged Anglicanism.
  • ISBN10 0334059321
  • ISBN13 9780334059325
  • Publish Date 30 July 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint SCM Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English