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For years, there has been talk of the importance of unity without a
clear theological narrative to underpin this, leading to competing
claims of what this unity is for or defined by, and challenges posed to
its possibility or desirability as a polity and as a theological idea.
This book is a timely theological exploration of the concept of unity in
the context of divisions, frictions, frustrations and arguments both
within the Church of England, and the wider Anglican Communion.
Resisting the urge to merely provide a cut-and-dry definition of unity,
author Charlie Bell teases out the theological currents that run in this
stream of thought, and ensure that we are refining our thinking, and
doing justice to a topic that may appear to contain many opposing and
contradictory elements. That unity is a call of Christ to His church is
not in doubt – what that unity might look like in the reality of today’s
ecclesial and cultural landscape is the question that this book seeks
to answer.
Charlie Bell is Official
Fellow and College Lecturer in Medicine and Public Theology at Girton
College, Cambridge, and a Registrar in Forensic Psychiatry. He is a
priest in the Diocese of Southwark, Scholar in Residence at the
Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City, Visiting Scholar at
Sarum College, and a Research Fellow and Associate Tutor at St
Augustine’s College of Theology.