Future Shapes of Anglicanism

<p>To many people the Church of England and worldwide Anglican Communion has the aura of an institution that is dislocated and adrift. Buffeted by tempestuous and stormy debates on sexuality gender authority and power - to say nothing of priorities in mission and ministry and the leadership and management of the church - a once confident Anglicanism appears to be anxious and vulnerable. The Future of Anglicanism offers a constructive and critical engagement with the currents and contours that have brought the church to this point. It assesses and evaluates the forces now shaping the church and challenges them culturally critically and theologically.</p>