Christian Social Witness

by Harold T. Lewis

Overview

In this volume of The New Church’s Teaching Series, Harold T. Lewis surveys the teachings and witness of Anglicanism and the Episcopal Church concerning the Christian vision of a righteous social order, including the challenges of the new millennium. Beginning with the Bible’s understandings of social justice, Lewis summarizes the Anglican witness of theologians like F. D. Maurice and William Temple and goes on to discuss the Episcopal Church in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Later chapters discuss the challenges of a new social order that face the church today raised by liberation theology, third-world debt and economic justice, and questions of race, gender, and human sexuality.

As with each book in The New Church’s Teaching Series, recommended resources for further reading and questions for discussion are included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461660538
Publisher:	Cowley Publications
Publication date:	01/25/2001
Series:	New Church's Teaching Series , #10
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	162
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Harold T. Lewis is rector of Calvary Church in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and the author of Yet With a Steady Beat: The African American Struggle for Recognition in the Episcopal Church. For many years he served the national church as staff officer for Black Ministries.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Christian Social Witness
Chapter 2 The Bible
Chapter 3 The Church of England
Chapter 4 The Episcopal Church
Chapter 5 Economic Justice
Chapter 6 Race
Chapter 7 Gender
Chapter 8 Human Sexuality
Part 9 Resources
Part 10 Questions for Group Discussion

Editorial Reviews

In Christian Social Witness, Harold Lewis (Rector of Calvary Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) surveys the teachings of Anglicanism and the Episcopal Church on a variety of issues including the bible understandings of social justice, and the challenges of a new social order facing the Episcopal Church today arising from liberation theology, third-world debt, economic justice, and considerations of race, gender, and human sexuality. Christian Social Witness is a very highly recommended and engaging study guide enhanced with a comprehensive list of resources for further study and "Questions for Group Discussion".