The Once and Future Parish by Alison Milbank - Online Book Launch and Discussion 4 June, 6pm to 7.30pm

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The Once and Future Parish is a defence of parish ministry at a time of great upheaval in the Church of England. Alison Milbank, co-author of the influential and provocative For the Parish (2010), challenges the ecclesiology, theological anthropology, and analysis of secularism that are explicit or implicit in recent initiatives such as the 'Emerging Church' programme and the Strategic Development Fund. She offers a striking and encouraging vision of what the parish model could provide in an anxious world.

Alison, who is Professor of Theology and Literature at the University of Nottingham and Canon Theologian of Southwell Minister, will be in conversation with two prominent theologians.
 
The Revd Dr Jeremy Morris is a church historian and author of The People's Church: A History of the Church of England (2023). He is the National Advisor for Ecumenical Relations for the Church of England.
 
The Very Revd Dr Frances Ward is former Dean of St. Edmundsbury Cathedral and now Vicar of St. John and St. Michael, Workington in the Diocese of Carlisle. She is author of Full of Character: A Christian Approach to Education in the Digital Age (2018).
 
The book launch will be chaired by Simon Oliver, Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University and Canon of Durham Cathedral.
 
Q&A will follow the discussion between the author and respondents.
 
To join the book launch on Zoom, please use this link.
 
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