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Republic of Heaven: Fulcrum review of Jonathan Clark's book
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Posted by: Toby |
Saturday 14 March 2009 - 08:49pm |
Hi Graham
Thanks for posting the link to Sarah's review (and hello Sarah, if you're out there).
I haven't read Jonathan Clark's book but what I missed in Sarah's article was any sense of critique of it. This was more surprising given the review's billing as 'a Fulcrum review'.
Now it could be that a 'Catholic-Anglican' who is also chair of 'Affirming Catholicism' has nothing whatsoever to say with which evangelicals or Fulcrum would disagree. But the review gives no hint of the appalling blandness that such inoffensiveness would suggest. In fact, Sarah refers to JC's views on 'priesthood' and, even in the few words she gives it, I could see that it might not sit easily with the classical evangelical position - yet Sarah passes gaily on, as if nothing were amiss at all.
It's not, let me stress, a bad review. In fact it made me wonder if I should read the book. But it could just as well have been published on Aff Cath's own website. I don't think being at the 'evangelical centre' means that 'all views are equally valid'. As a friend of mine used to say, 'don't let's be so open-minded our brains fall out'.
Toby |
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Posted by: Graham Kings |
Saturday 14 March 2009 - 05:39pm |
 We have just published on Sarah Cawdell's Fulcrum review of 'The Republic of Heaven: a Catholic-Anglican Future' (SPCK, 2008) by Jonathan Clark, Rector of Stoke Newington, London. |
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