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    Being Salt: A Theology of an Ordered Church
    Being Salt: A Theology of an Ordered Church
    Being Salt: A Theology of an Ordered Church
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    Being Salt: A Theology of an Ordered Church

    By George R. Sumner

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    Being Salt addresses both ordination and leadership by taking as its point of departure the most distinctive yet often overlooked feature of ordination: indelibility--being ordained for life. Sumner wholeheartedly agrees with the Reformation emphasis on the ministry of the whole people of God. Still, he argues that we can only understand priesthood if we understand what one is ordained for. Indelibility--lifetime ordination--provides an entree to the question of what sets the ordained apart. In sum, Being Salt offers an evangelical argument for a catholic practice and so goes to the heart of what Anglicanism understands itself to be.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCascade Books
    Release dateMay 1, 2007
    ISBN9781621898085
    Being Salt: A Theology of an Ordered Church
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    George R. Sumner

    George R. Sumner is Principal of Wycliffe College, Toronto. He is the author of The First and the Last: The Claim of Jesus Christ and the Claims of Other Religious Traditions (Eerdmans, 2004).

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