Overview
Reflections for the Unfolding Year is a collection of addresses given by Alan Wilkinson. Roving over subjects from apartheid to Lent to the ever-evolving image of Mary, he offers a compassionate response to some of the most painful subjects of the last hundred years, as well as a thoughtful reflection on the sacraments of the Church of England, what they have meant to our ancestors and what they mean to us today. Delving into troubling questions about doubt, repentance and what it means when God appears to be silent in times of crisis, he draws on sources from all walks of life in order to express how Anglicans feel about fundamental issues such as grief, hope and grace, as well as, most potently, their longing for God. Alan Wilkinson relates stories about the Church - its bishops and its believers - with rueful good humour and thoughtfulness, leading the reader through more than half a century of his ministry in Portsmouth and elsewhere. His portrait of the Church of England showcases both the ordinary and the extraordinary; the prosaic and the poetic. Through his fluent pen, we come to understand more of the lives of the people in the Church, such as Desmond Tutu, William Temple and Bill Sargent, who have made it what it is today: catholic, reformed and liberal.
Full Product Details
Author: Alan Wilkinson
Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.294kg
ISBN: 9780718894986
ISBN 10: 0718894987
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 26 October 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
I was struck as I read this book from cover to cover, that I was being given a very good grounding in Christian faith and practice. I hope that books such as this one will go some way to reanimating a style of Christianity which some of us still cherish. Reverend Peter McGeary, Church Times, 8 June 2018.
"""I was struck as I read this book from cover to cover, that I was being given a very good grounding in Christian faith and practice. I hope that books such as this one will go some way to reanimating a ""style"" of Christianity which some of us still cherish."" Reverend Peter McGeary, Church Times, 8 June 2018. ""Preaching the good news in the way that Anglican divines do at their best: biblical, liturgical, sacramental, incarnation, worldly, awkward, funny and deeply nourishing. Collections of addresses such as these remind us of what has been, what occasionally still is, and what could yet be again."" Peter Atkinson,Modern Believing, pp191-194, April 2020"
Author Information
Alan Wilkinson is an Anglican priest and the former Diocesan Theologian for Portsmouth, as well as the former Chaplain of St Catharine's College Cambridge and Principal of Chichester Theological College. He has taught previously at the universities of Cambridge, Bristol and Portsmouth and for the Open University, and now lives in Chichester with his wife, Fenella. He is the author of The Church of England and the First World War (reprinted 2014 by the Lutterworth Press), an in-depth exploration of the ambiguous role played by the Anglican Church in the war and the pastoral issues which arose from its unprecedented horrors.
