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Once and Future Parish

Once and Future Parish

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Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 9780334063131
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 28/09/2023
Width: 13.5 cm
Height: 21.6 cm

Few other books have caused as much stir in the Church of England in recent decades as has For the Parish. Twelve years on from its publication, in the wake of the Covid pandemic and the 'Save the Parish' movement much has changed, but much has stayed the same. In this follow up to this influential and controversial book, new and already familiar themes are newly inflected in the debates of the present time: principally minster hubs, the 'Emerging Church' programme and the Strategic Development Fund. Alison Milbank challenges the ecclesiology, models of theological anthropology and the analysis of secularism that are present (explicitly or implicitly) in these movements, and offer a striking and encouraging vision of what the parish model could offer to our anxious world.

Introduction: For the Parish Twelve Years On 1 National Mission and Local Embodiment 2 How Did We Get Here? 3 Follow the Money 4 Managerial Mission 5 The Parish Between Church Planting and Pioneer Ministry 6 Bishops and Parishes: What Is the Church? 7 The Crisis in Education and Communal Memory 8 Kill the Parish? Conclusion: The Future Parish

Alison Milbank

The Revd Canon Professor Alison Milbank is Professor of Theology and Literature at the University of Nottingham where she teaches on the relation of religion and culture both historically and in the contemporary world and a trustee of Art+Christianity. She is Canon Theologian and Priest Vicar at Southwell Minster, where she leads on adult education but also engages in all aspects of ministry in a parish church cathedral. She is a co-founder of 'Save the Parish' and active in engaging audiences as diverse as English Heritage and the Ecclesiastical Law Society in its defence.