This is a hopeful and generous book, looking for “the Church” and its notes of unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity wherever they may be found. … The essays collected here are excellent testimony to [Avis's] attentiveness to other voices, historical and contemporary.

Theological Studies

[Avis] has managed to combine ecumenical sensitivity with a readiness to defend Anglicanism. ... [H]e sets out his stall with admirable clarity and cogency. He also develops and interprets [his] basic understanding of Anglicanism in ways that are often stimulating.

Church of England Newspaper

Paul Avis is an erudite and perceptive writer on Anglicanism; he is also a scholar devoted to the case of Christian unity. His latest book makes all this plain, offering a generous, open-hearted view of what Anglicanism, at its best, might become (and sometimes already is).

The Expository Times

Another excellent book from Paul Avis ... He is erudite, irenic and reasonable, and he writes with an obvious love for the Church and the Anglican form of Christianity.

Theology

Introduces a range of important ecclesiological themes clearly and succinctly ... A pastoral gift to the Anglican Communion from one of its senior theologians.

Ecclesiology

This book is best read not as analysis but as a prophetic challenge.

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