Nicholas Taylor

Lay Presidency at the Eucharist? (eBook, PDF)

An Anglican Approach

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The demand for allowing lay ministers to preside at the Eucharist has become a pressing issue in many churches, not only in Anglicanism. Within the Anglican Communion this issue seems to be potentially divisive as most provinces refuse to accept lay presidency, but some - as the Archdiocese of Sydney - are discussing schemes to introduce it.

In Lay Presidency at the Eucharist an Anglican theological approach to controversial questions is articulated. Taylor investigates in particular what allegiance to Scripture entails, and how its authority is to be applied in the Church today. The evidence of the New Testament and early Church on the Eucharist and ministry, and how critical scholarship relates to the authority of Scripture in the life of the Church, are explored, whilst the Reformation and subsequent developments in Anglican theology and Eucharistic practice are considered. Pressure to authorize lay presidency is largely a response to a shortage of clergy to meet demand for Eucharistic worship, and alternative provision for this need is discussed, before going on to consider specific schemes. The theological issues, to do with the Church, the Eucharist, and the ministry, are reviewed, and outstanding questions identified.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441194435
• Artikelnr.: 38452831

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Taylor is an Anglican priest and Research Fellow in Theology of the University of Zululand. He has taught in universities and theological training institutions in the UK and in southern and central Africa. He is author of Paul, Antioch and Jerusalem (LNTS 66, 1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Authority and Theological Method in the Anglican Tradition
2. The Eucharist in the New Testament and Early Church
The Institution of the Eucharist Eucharistic
Presidency in the New Testament
Church The Early Fathers
3. Ordination and Ministry in the Early Church
Imposition of Hands and Ministry in the New Testament
Early Ordination Rites
Priesthood in the Early Church
4. Sacramental Ministry in the Anglican Tradition
The Reformation Settlement in England
The Anglican Communion since the Nineteenth Century
Eucharistic Presidency in Ecumenical Contexts
5. Ministry, Worship, and Eucharistic Deprivation: Alternative Approaches
Ministry of the Word apart from the Sacrament Ordination of Community
Leaders
Visiting Priests
Extended Communion
A Eucharist-like Meal, Agape, or Love Feast
Spiritual Communion
Conclusions
6. Proposals for Authorised Lay Eucharistic Presidency in the Anglican
Communion
The Province of the Southern Cone of America (Cono Sur)
The Diocese of Sydney
The Church Planting Movement and Fresh Expressions of Church
Conclusions
7. Theological Arguments for Lay Presidency at the Eucharist Baptism and
the Priesthood of all Christians
Representation of Christ
Ecclesiastical Authority and Spiritual Power
Ministry and Patriarchy
Tradition, Continuity, and Change
8. The Current Position of the Anglican Communion, and Outstanding Issues
The State of the Anglican Communion
Theology of the Laity
Theology of Priesthood
Word, Sacrament, and Pastoral Care
Defining the Eucharistic Community
Conclusions