The Fate of Communion: The Agony of Anglicanism and the Future of a Global Church - Softcover

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Ephraim Radner is Professor of Historical Theology, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. An Anglican priest, he has worked in several parts of the world. His books include The End of the Church: A Pneumatology of Christian Division in the West (1998), A Brutal Unity: The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church (2012), and A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality and the Shape of the Christian Life (2016).

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Current debates over a host of issues, particularly those relating to homosexuality, have left the 70-million-member Anglican Communion straining to understand what it means to be a communion -- and even wondering whether life as a communion is possible.

In this timely book two priest-scholars, Ephraim Radner and Philip Turner, examine the future of the concept of "communion" as a viable church structure, tracing its historical development as a self-conscious Anglican third way between Protestant congregationalism and Catholic centralism. In examining this essential issue, Radner and Turner relate the specific challenges of the U.S. Episcopal Church to the unity of the worldwide communion, touching on such divisive subjects as the place of Scripture, liberal theology, and episcopal authority. Their discussion is at once measured and impassioned, erudite and practical.

Compelling reading for Episcopalians and those in other traditions who are searching for a truly Christian approach to these thorny topics, "The Fate of Communion" is a forthright, direct examination of a church in tu