Seeking the Truth of Change in the Church

Paul Avis is General Secretary of the Church of England's Council for Christian Unity, Sub-Dean of Exeter Cathedral, and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Christian Church.

• The landscapes of reception (William G. Ruch); reception - towards an Anglican understanding (Paul Avis); reception and communion (John Hind); the Episcopal Ministry Act of Synod 1993 in Anglican Ecumenical context (Mary Tanner); communion and the kingdom of God (Robert Hannaford); pastoral perspectives on reception and communion (Christopher Hill); reception and division in the Church (Paul Richardson); learning to live with difference (Geoffrey Rowell); the Episcopal Ministry Act of Synod 1993 - a bearable anomaly? (Paul Avis).

"This brief volume will be of interest to readers who are fairly new to the questions of communion ecclesiology, and the general history and theology behind the doctrines of reception and communion. For persons outside the Anglican Communion, it provides an opportunity to be something of a nosy neighbor at someone else's family reunion while also considering the wider ecumenical import of decisions made by church bodies. For persons such as myself, a lay Catholic feminist scholar, Seeking the Truth makes for fascinating if frustrating reading." -A. Denise Starkey, Reviews in Religion and Theology, Volume 11, Issue 4, September 2004