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Do Small Groups Work? Biblical engagement and transformation
Anna Creedon
SCM Press, 2021, pp.208, pbk, £65.
Recent sessions of the Church of England Synod have been not entirely satisfying ‘live stream viewing’ for those of us who care about the public face of the Church and its commitment to truth, mutual respect, and theological wisdom.
Ongoing Church of England discussions about sexuality continue as a slow and contested movement towards accommodation of some kind of. The questions put by synod to the steering group in the Living in Love and Faith process revealed deep divisions about how far we might tolerate difference of views – a quality and charism that is (or has been) in the DNA of Anglicanism. We have seen a variety of approaches to theological and ecclesiological truth, and in particular the sheer complexity of the way we read the Bible. We approach these sacred texts so very differently. There are a multiplicity of ways in which Scripture has shaped our grasp of the gospel. We read the texts and use them through the lens of our own lives in their complex range of both seeing and unseeing, perception and incomprehension. The Bible stands at the centre of the life of the Church. So, how might we then engage with these sacred texts?
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