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The calling of a cuckoo : not quite an autobiography / David E. Jenkins.

By: Publication details: London : Continuum, [2003]Description: xxi, 192 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780826449917 : (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 920 22
Contents:
Introduction: Is it a mistake to take God for granted? -- 1. Belief in God and what it is to be human -- 2. 'God the disturber' -- 3. TV and the beginning of notoriety -- 4. I discover what is not expected of a Bishop -- 5. The fault-line becomes an abyss -- 6. My consecration -- 7. 'Ye have not passed this way heretofore' -- 8. The lightning: my notoriety goes worldwide -- 9. The implications of being carved in stone -- 10. My notorious enthronement sermon -- 11. Bishops and politics -- 12. Political dismissal and ecclesiastical cul-de-sac -- 13. The conflict deepens -- 14. The sevenfold cord of faith -- 15. Going on with God -- Appendix 1: The nature of Christian belief -- Appendix 2: The ordination of women to the priesthood
Summary: One of England's most controversial church leaders in the 1980s, Jenkins attempts to explain the man behind the notoriety: how he came to his beliefs, and how that continuing and deepening faith in God carried him through the height of the controversies and remains with him today.
List(s) this item appears in: New acquisitions Nov - Dec 2019 | New acquisitions 2019 | Acquisitions 2019-2020
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Loanable Book Library Biography 920 JEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000438194

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Is it a mistake to take God for granted? -- 1. Belief in God and what it is to be human -- 2. 'God the disturber' -- 3. TV and the beginning of notoriety -- 4. I discover what is not expected of a Bishop -- 5. The fault-line becomes an abyss -- 6. My consecration -- 7. 'Ye have not passed this way heretofore' -- 8. The lightning: my notoriety goes worldwide -- 9. The implications of being carved in stone -- 10. My notorious enthronement sermon -- 11. Bishops and politics -- 12. Political dismissal and ecclesiastical cul-de-sac -- 13. The conflict deepens -- 14. The sevenfold cord of faith -- 15. Going on with God -- Appendix 1: The nature of Christian belief -- Appendix 2: The ordination of women to the priesthood

One of England's most controversial church leaders in the 1980s, Jenkins attempts to explain the man behind the notoriety: how he came to his beliefs, and how that continuing and deepening faith in God carried him through the height of the controversies and remains with him today.

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