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The Vowed Life: The Promise and Demand of Baptism

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Availability:In StockContributor:Matthew Bullimore (Editor), Sarah Coakley (Editor)Publish date:2023-01-31Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Canterbury Press NorwichISBN-13:9781786221896ISBN-10:1786221896UPC:9781786221896Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Monasticism, Christian Living, Christian TheologyBook Topic:Calling & Vocation, EcclesiologySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.6195Product ID:SC42G7Z57B
The Vowed Life reflects on a paradox in the Church today: one that represents an important challenge to its mission and witness. Vows continue to be made sacramentally in the Church, yet there remains a great longing for a vowed life which would be truly transforming and life-giving. Vows are simultaneously alluring and unappealing: lay memberships of religious orders have escalated, yet very few traditional religious communities have attracted younger members due to their more demanding lifelong commitments. The Vowed Life explores why and how this has come to be, and how the Church urgently needs to respond to this paradoxical challenge. Returning to baptism as the anchor of all other Christian vows, a range of contributors consider whether the longing for forms of life that are profoundly life-changing is a displaced desire for something that should be intrinsic to Christian life. In a Church that prioritises pastoral sensitivity, they ask how those demands could be newly expressed for our culture. In seeking a coherent theology of vows in liturgical practice and sacramental context, they find that fresh attention to 'the vowed life' also has much to offer to the Church's continuing conversations about sex, gender and identity, and to a 'mixed ecology' approach to the life of the Church and its mission.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Canterbury Press NorwichISBN-13:9781786221896ISBN-10:1786221896UPC:9781786221896Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Monasticism, Christian Living, Christian TheologyBook Topic:Calling & Vocation, EcclesiologySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.6195Product ID:SC42G7Z57B
Bullimore, Matthew: - Matthew Bullimore is Assistant Editor for Crucible and has taught Christian doctrine for a number of years.Coakley, Sarah: - Sarah Coakley is the former Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.
Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich

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