{"id":66713,"date":"2017-12-29T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66713"},"modified":"2017-12-29T06:18:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T11:18:16","slug":"church-times-philip-welsh-reviews-the-joy-of-being-anglican-edited-by-caroline-hodgson-and-heather-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66713","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Philip Welsh reviews &#8216;The Joy of Being Anglican&#8217; edited by Caroline Hodgson and Heather Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Joy of Being Anglican<\/em>\u00a0does not aim at being a systematic, searching, or critical examination of Anglicanism, but, rather, at celebrating what a variety of Anglicans love about the Church they belong to. That said, issues do get raised. Ruth Gledhill writes warmly of the \u201cunderstated, modest, anonymous way\u201d in which churches get on with doing good, but offsets this against \u201cthe hurt felt by many LGTB people, who are also part of the Church family\u201d. Trevor Dennis vividly evokes the joy to be had from scripture \u2014 \u201cReally? For an\u00a0<em>Anglican<\/em>? Are you quite sure?\u201d \u2014 but admits that \u201csometimes, let\u2019s face it, the Bible is very wrong,\u201d and accuses preachers of evasiveness in confronting difficult passages.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Mann has a penetrating chapter on the Anglican tradition of poetry, admitting that to some extent it has been tied in with authority and privilege. And, in a volume that generally has little to say about Anglican theological thinking, she does affirm that \u201cTo be Anglican is to be free of the need for doctrinaire safety or dogmatism,\u201d and offers W. H. Auden and R. S. Thomas as examples. Casual references to \u201cHegelian rigour\u201d and \u201cdialectical encounter\u201d seem to have slipped through the publisher\u2019s declared policy of using \u201csimple, everyday language\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2017\/22-december\/books-arts\/book-reviews\/the-joy-of-being-anglican-edited-by-caroline-hodgson-and-heather-smith\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joy of Being Anglican\u00a0does not aim at being a systematic, searching, or critical examination of Anglicanism, but, rather, at celebrating what a variety of Anglicans love about the Church they belong to. That said, issues do get raised. Ruth<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66713\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,80,92,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-identity","category-books","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66715,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66713\/revisions\/66715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}