Leading thinkers offer theoretical, contextual and practical responses to encourage a renewed love for the church and renewed energy to bear witness appropriately and creatively.

Ross, Cathy

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Bearing Witness in Hope

List of Contributors

1 A Church in Crisis? New Testament Perspectives

Back to Basics

Numbers

2 Renewal and Reform: Reflections on a Changing Landscape

Discussion questions

3 De Profundis: Faithful Witness in the Context of Adversity

Developing a theology of adversity

Adversity and lament

Bearing witness

The Big Free Jubilee Lunch

Note

4 Incarnation and Translation:The Forgotten Heart of Anglicanism

The wild boar

The translation principle

Henry Martyn

5 Living a New Story:Why We Need Creative Witness

Introduction: a story of our times

Rigour

Risk

Resilience

Ambiguity

Agency

Imagination

Provocation

Conclusion

6 Could You Be Loved? BAME Presence and the Witness of Diversity and Inclusion

Shaped by Crisis: CofE Reactions to BAME Realities

Depth of witness? BAME theologians speak

Bearing witness: diversity and inclusion as immanent values

7 Marginal Hope:Unsystematic Reflections through Holy Week and Easter

Holy Monday

Good Friday

Easter Sunday

Clue 1: Go to the margins – journey to the edge

Clue 2: Face and name reality

Clue 3: Discover hope for the 'flourishing whole'

Clue 4: Practise hope – make it a habit – enact it

Fourth Sunday of Easter

8Developing Resilience:Responses to Criticism, Challenge and Change

Choosing resilience

Developing resilience

Crisis

Developing resilience in the desert

Panic and denial: Acedia

Desert wisdom

Resilient living from adversity to altruism

The Story of the Winter Night Shelter

Confidentiality

Why did we do that?

Goodness

9Faithful Presence: Response to a Community in Crisis

Sources of anger

Community and communion

Wider implications

10To Hillsborough and Beyond: Episcopal Witness in a Secularizing Nation: A Profile of Bishop James Jones

Notes

11What Kind of Church are We Called to Be? A Vision for a Diocese

A vision for the life of the church

The Beatitudes

The church of the Beatitudes

A Christ-like church

Listening for God in Community: The Story of Leesland Neighbourhood Church

Local context

St Faith's consultation

Listening

Partnership

Leesland neighbourhood church

Introduction What is the Church for?

Index of Names and Subjects

\["For church leaders and members seeking renewed purpose", "Addresses feelings of hopelessness in church engagement", "You will rediscover the power of the Church's mission"\]

Bearing Witness in Hope inspires the Church to engage creatively during challenging times.

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Leading thinkers offer theoretical, contextual and practical responses to encourage a renewed love for the church and renewed energy to bear witness appropriately and creatively.

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