Praying for England: Priestly Presence in Contemporary Culture
by Sam Wells, Sarah Coakley (Editor)
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Praying for England reflects on the role of Christian priesthood in contemporary culture, and comes up with some surprising and timely insights about its efficacy and importance. There are ritual and representative functions of the priest, it argues, which remain spiritually and socially vital, even - perhaps especially - in a society which ostensibly ignores the Church, or appears so pluralistic as to lack any religious cohesion. The priestly role as mediator before God of society's deepest show more pains, losses, joys and irresolvable anxieties is here reimagined, and brought freshly to life though m show lessTags
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Sarah Coakley is Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity Emerita at Cambridge University and research professor at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. Her other books include God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay "On the Trinity," The New Asceticism: Sexuality, Gender, and the Quest for God, and Sacrifice Regained: Reconsidering the Rationality show more of Religious Belief. show less
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