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Shaping the Church — The Promise of Implicit Theology

Shaping the Church — The Promise of Implicit Theology Book Reviews / Journal of Empirical Theology 24 (2011) 123-134 129 Percy, M. (2010). Shaping the Church — The Promise of Implicit Theology . Farnham: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-6605-9. Martin Percy is Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, a theological college (seminary) of the Church of England. This context is important because, despite glances in other directions, this book is substantially a discussion of what is happening to Anglicanism in contemporary English society. As such, incidentally, it provides a useful survey of the present situation of the English church with its peculiar history. Thus it could be of interest to anyone wanting to understand that tradition today. The intention, however, is more polemical. Percy places himself in the broad church/ liberal camp within his communion: that is, he wants to argue for the possibility of a church that is comprehensive and open yet having a sense of its anchorage in the main- stream Christian tradition. This is presented over against understandings of secularisa- tion and post-modernism that would assume either the inevitable demise of religion or its privatisation and therefore marginalisation. His ecclesial opponents are those, such as certain evangelical or catholic Anglicans, who would draw the boundaries around http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Empirical Theology Brill

Shaping the Church — The Promise of Implicit Theology

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Brill
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© 2011 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0922-2936
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1570-9256
DOI
10.1163/157092511X571222
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Book Reviews / Journal of Empirical Theology 24 (2011) 123-134 129 Percy, M. (2010). Shaping the Church — The Promise of Implicit Theology . Farnham: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-6605-9. Martin Percy is Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, a theological college (seminary) of the Church of England. This context is important because, despite glances in other directions, this book is substantially a discussion of what is happening to Anglicanism in contemporary English society. As such, incidentally, it provides a useful survey of the present situation of the English church with its peculiar history. Thus it could be of interest to anyone wanting to understand that tradition today. The intention, however, is more polemical. Percy places himself in the broad church/ liberal camp within his communion: that is, he wants to argue for the possibility of a church that is comprehensive and open yet having a sense of its anchorage in the main- stream Christian tradition. This is presented over against understandings of secularisa- tion and post-modernism that would assume either the inevitable demise of religion or its privatisation and therefore marginalisation. His ecclesial opponents are those, such as certain evangelical or catholic Anglicans, who would draw the boundaries around

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Published: Jan 1, 2011

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