Sunday, August 14, 2016

Top cleric says Church of England risks becoming a ‘suburban sect’

From The Gaurdian-

One of Britain’s senior theologians has warned that the Church of England is in danger of becoming a narrow sect “driven by mission-minded middle managers” who are alienating clergy, congregations and the general public.

Martyn Percy, dean of Christ Church, Oxford, writes in the afterword of his latest book, The Future Shapes of Anglicanism, that church leaders’ strategy is moving towards “centralised management, organisational apparatus and the kind of creeping concerns that might consume an emerging suburban sectarianism, instead of a national church”.


More here-

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/13/justin-welby-church-of-england-suburban-sect

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