The Canterbury Studies in Anglicanism series will meet the growing demand for resources that address the breadth and complexity of contemporary Anglicanism. This volume will appear shortly before General Synod of the Church of England debates the ordination of women as bishops and will speak directly to that issue.
Looking back at the last century with its devastating wars, genocides, environmental disasters, more often than not caused by humans, an urgent need for a paradigmatic shift in human relationships suggests itself. Other factors point in the same direction, such as movement towards globalization, reflected in greater fragmentation of society...
