Confessing Christ in a Post-Christendom Context.

From: The Ecumenical Review | Date: July 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

As a foreigner at this conference, and inheritor of Presbyterian identity by only one-third of my ecclesiastical lineage, I have little right to be here. My only qualification for accepting the honour of the invitation, I think, is a life-time of attempting to comprehend the same mysteries that you yourselves seek to address. I also feel a strong sense of identification with what I believe to be the generative basis of this "network". At a time of unprecedented transition in the Christian movement, when (as George Orwell once put it) "the little orthodoxies of the right and the ...

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