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    Jean Vanier: Community and Growth: Our Pilgrimage Together Revised Edition
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    Rowan Williams: Anglican Identities
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    Tom Wright: Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
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  • W.H. Vanstone: Farewell in Christ

    W.H. Vanstone: Farewell in Christ
    Vanstone's final work, which explores the mystery of existence, the mystery of my soul, the mystery of meaning, - and none of this becomes possible without intellectual doubt. Is this what Dawkins et al will never understand?

  • John Pritchard: The Life and Work of a Priest

    John Pritchard: The Life and Work of a Priest
    This book should be compulsory reading for all enquirers, ordinands, and current clergy - perhaps adding in all elders and churchwardens for good measure. It charts in a profoundly hopeful way the joys and pressures of contemporary priesthood, and avoids the pitfalls of theological bias or the bland functional understandings of leadership.

  • Timothy Radcliffe: What Is the Point of Being a Christian?

    Timothy Radcliffe: What Is the Point of Being a Christian?
    A prophetic introduction to the Christian faith for those who struggle to find God amid the complexities of life

  • Robert Dimery: 1001 Albums you must hear before you die

    Robert Dimery: 1001 Albums you must hear before you die
    Just a great read - extensive intelligent reviews which bring back memories, stimulate to seek out, and inspire to add to the wish list.

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« Leadership in emerging/missional communities | Main | Trinity thinking and experience »

29 April 2008

What is distinctive about Christianity?


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Brother John writes modestly and helpfully about distinctiveness here (click on the graphic to download the text.) which ends with Bonhoeffer's words

"The Church is not about religion, but rather about the figure of Christ and its taking shape in a multitude of persons. Are we sufficiently aware that, two thousand years ago, Christ came to earth not to start a new religion but to offer every human being a communion in God? "

There are two other short writings covering "unbelief" and "salvation" available in the right hand column.

I am delighted to read the new generation of Taize theologians writing with such clarity.

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