Anglican Women on Church and Mission

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In the past several decades, the issues of women's ordination and of homosexuality have unleashed intense debates on the nature and mission of the Church, authority and the future of the Anglican Communion. Amid such momentous debates, theological voices of women in the Anglican Communion have not been clearly heard, until now. This book invites the reader to reconsider the theological basis of the Church and its call to mission in the 21st century, paying special attention to the colonial legacy of the Anglican Church and the shift of Christian demographics to the Global South. In addition to essays by the volume editors, this 12-essay collection includes contributions by Jane Shaw, Ellen Wondra and Beverley Haddad, among others.

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Dr Judith A. Berling is a professor at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, where she has also served as Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs. She teaches and writes in the fields of East Asian religions, Asian Christianities, and Interreligious Learning. She is a past president of the American Academy of Religion and of the American Society for the Study of Religion. An active lay Episcopalian, she is currently Senior Warden of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Berkeley. Her publications include Understanding Other Religious Worlds: A Guide for Interreligious Education and A Pilgrim in Chinese Culture: Negotiating Religious Diversity. Kwok Pui-lan is Deans Professor of Systematic Theology at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, and a past president of the American Academy of Religion. An internationally known theologian, she is a pioneer of Asian and Asian American feminist theology and postcolonial theology. An author or editor of numerous books, she is the coeditor of Beyond Colonial Anglicanism and Anglican Women on Church and Mission. She received the Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship from the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2021. She splits her time between Boston and Atlanta. Jenny Te Paa is dean of St. John's Theological College in Auckland, New Zealand.