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