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(London: scm Press, 2013), 180 pp. isbn 978-0-334-04662-2 (pbk). £19.99. This is a tremendously rich series of essays, which I am heartily glad to have read. It makes an important contribution to the debate around the Fresh Expressions movement, especially within the Church of England. It is a largely cohesive collection, with one basic thesis: there is need of a via media between the positions represented on the one hand by the Church of England’s report Mission Shaped Church (Church House Publishing, 2004) which gave official endorsement and great impetus to Fresh Expressions, and on the other by Andrew Davison and Alison Milbank’s For the Parish: A Critique of Fresh Expressions ( scm , 2010). The former, in its passion for mission, does not pay enough attention to the sacramental heart of the Church. The latter, by contrast, in its concern for the integrity of the Church is prone to what the editors describe as ‘the post-liberal temptation of radical difference’ (p. 12), where the Church must separate itself from a contemporary culture seen as ‘largely something deplorable … shallow, callous, selfish and hollow’ (p. 85 – citing Davison and Milbank’s own words). The required via media is
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Published: Oct 13, 2016
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