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Edited by C. Andrew Doyle, Foreword by Michael B. Curry
May/2022, 272 Pages, PAPERBACK, 6 x 9
ISBN-13: 9781640655539
Top voices highlight important changes in the role of bishop.
C. Andrew Doyle, ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, summarizes his autobiography in six words: “Met Jesus on pilgrimage; still walking.” He is author of Unity in Mission, Unabashedly Episcopalian, CHURCH, A Generous Community, Small Batch, The Jesus Heist, and Vocātiō: Imaging a Visible Church. Follow him on Twitter at @texasbishop. He lives in Houston, Texas.
“In Episcopate: The Role of Bishops in a Shared Future, readers will find insightful and challenging essays about how bishops can help us face the challenges before us as we draw ever closer to becoming the Beloved Community God calls us to be.”
—The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President, House of Deputies of the Episcopal Church
“Although Episcopate is rooted in the life and history of the Episcopal Church, its reflections will be a gift to Canadian Anglicans. The diversity of voices across theology, ecclesiology, history, gender, and race offers a rich resource for facing our rapidly changing contexts for episcopal leadership.”
—The Most Rev. Linda Nicholls, Archbishop and Primate, Anglican Church of Canada
“These lively essays move from the origins of the episcopate, through American developments and crises, right up to the present. Then they venture into what the Church needs to do here and now to gain a future. Here’s just the book to think, ponder, pray, and strategize into Christ’s promised future.”
—Rev. Will Willimon, United Methodist Bishop, retired, and author of Bishop: The Art of Questioning Authority by an Authority in Question
“In these essays we look back historically on a bishop’s role, but with the writers we are given an opportunity to begin to discern together the kind of bishops we need for our times, in our cultural context, with an eye on the bishops we will need for the future.”
—The Right Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin CD, MBE, Bishop of Dover, England
Foreword
Michael B. Curry
Introduction
Andrew Doyle
George R. Sumner
Robert W. Prichard
William O. Gregg
4. Bishop William White’s “Opinions” on Episcopacy, Race, and Ecumenism
William Franklin
5. Episcopate, Race, and Unity of the Church
Allen Shin
Katharine Jefferts Schori
Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook
Hector Monterroso
Robert Fitzpatrick
Robert Wright
Kym Lucas
Diana Akiyama
Joan C. Geiszler-Ludlum
Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows
Sean Rowe
Cornelia Eaton
Notes
Contributors