The Open Body: Essays in Anglican Ecclesiology (original) (raw)

2012

Abstract

The Open Body emerges from a conference held at Harvard Divinity School in April 2011. The essays in this book reflect on ecclesiology in the Anglican tradition, that is they debate whether and how humans should gather ad a "church" in the name of Christ. While the prompts for this collections of essays is the contemporary crisis in the Anglican communion, this book provides a capacious re-interpretation and re-imagination of the central metaphor of Christian community, namely, "the Body of Christ." By suggesting that the Body of Christ is "open," the authors are insisting that while the recent controversy within the Anglican Communion should prompt and even influence theological reflection on Christian community, it should not define or determine it. In other words, the controversy is an "opening" or an opportunity to imagine and to examine the past, present, and future of the Church.

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