Priest in the Inner City

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

منو

" Priest in the Inner City "
Martin Gainsborough

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1065779
Doc. No	:	LA109408
Call No	:	‭10.1163/17455316-01301003‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Martin Gainsborough
Title & Author	:	Priest in the Inner City [Article]\ Martin Gainsborough
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Ecclesiology
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	13/1
Page No	:	11–31
Abstract	:	The article considers the strengths and weaknesses of John Milbank’s ecclesiology by examining encounters the author has had as a Church of England priest working in the inner city. The analysis is further sharped by setting Milbank’s ecclesiology alongside Rowan Williams’s ideas about the Church and priestly ministry. The article argues that, while there is more to Milbank’s ecclesiology than some critics have allowed, his account can be usefully supplemented by close attention to the lived experience of the Church day by day. For a more rounded characterization of the Church as a distinctive human community, we need to look at the Church taken to its limits, sticking with situations of ‘dis-ease and conflict’, and not looking for ‘quick and false solutions’. These points can all be found in Williams’s ecclesiology. The article considers the strengths and weaknesses of John Milbank’s ecclesiology by examining encounters the author has had as a Church of England priest working in the inner city. The analysis is further sharped by setting Milbank’s ecclesiology alongside Rowan Williams’s ideas about the Church and priestly ministry. The article argues that, while there is more to Milbank’s ecclesiology than some critics have allowed, his account can be usefully supplemented by close attention to the lived experience of the Church day by day. For a more rounded characterization of the Church as a distinctive human community, we need to look at the Church taken to its limits, sticking with situations of ‘dis-ease and conflict’, and not looking for ‘quick and false solutions’. These points can all be found in Williams’s ecclesiology.
Descriptor	:	Ecclesiology
Descriptor	:	inner city
Descriptor	:	John Milbank
Descriptor	:	priest
Descriptor	:	Rowan Williams
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/17455316-01301003‬