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Book Review: How Then Shall We Live? Christian Engagement with Contemporary Issues

Book Review: How Then Shall We Live? Christian Engagement with Contemporary Issues ATR/102.1 Book Reviews 163 How Then Shall We Live? Christian Engagement with Contemporary Issues. By Samuel Wells. New York: Church Publishing, 2017. vii + 215 pp. $27.00 (pb). Noted Anglican theologian and ethicist Samuel Wells has written a short, user-friendly collection of essays on about twenty-five different is- sues of contemporary concern “on which [he] believe[s] the church should have a view” (p. vii). These topics include most of the hot-button issues of our day, such as LGBT identities, immigration, ecology, and assisted dying, but also include topics such as Israel, social media, obesity, retirement, and old age. Each chapter covers a single issue, some taking only three or four pages, while others are slightly longer. The book does not demand a com- plete, straightthrough reading, but can be appreciated in short chapters of the reader’s choosing. Wells’s unique career as a priest, scholar, author, and broadcaster, in both the United States and United Kingdom, gives him con- siderable integrity, and an influential vantage point, to address these topics. Readers will find something to appreciate and appropriate, even if they do not agree with every single chapter. Wells makes good use of integrated argu- ments that appeal to mind http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Book Review: How Then Shall We Live? Christian Engagement with Contemporary Issues

Huggins, Jonathan
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 102 (1): 1 – Aug 25, 2021
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ATR/102.1 Book Reviews 163 How Then Shall We Live? Christian Engagement with Contemporary Issues. By Samuel Wells. New York: Church Publishing, 2017. vii + 215 pp. $27.00 (pb). Noted Anglican theologian and ethicist Samuel Wells has written a short, user-friendly collection of essays on about twenty-five different is- sues of contemporary concern “on which [he] believe[s] the church should have a view” (p. vii). These topics include most of the hot-button issues of our day, such as LGBT identities, immigration, ecology, and assisted dying, but also include topics such as Israel, social media, obesity, retirement, and old age. Each chapter covers a single issue, some taking only three or four pages, while others are slightly longer. The book does not demand a com- plete, straightthrough reading, but can be appreciated in short chapters of the reader’s choosing. Wells’s unique career as a priest, scholar, author, and broadcaster, in both the United States and United Kingdom, gives him con- siderable integrity, and an influential vantage point, to address these topics. Readers will find something to appreciate and appropriate, even if they do not agree with every single chapter. Wells makes good use of integrated argu- ments that appeal to mind

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