Rome and Canterbury

The Elusive Search for Unity

By (author) Mary Reath

Publication date:

29 October 2007

Length of book:

160 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742552784

Rome and Canterbury tells the story of the determined but little known work being done to end the nearly five hundred year old divisions between the Roman Catholic and the Anglican/Episcopal Churches. The break was never intended, has never been fully accepted and is experienced, by many, as a painful and open wound. It is a personal account that begins the story by reviewing the relevant history and theology, looks at where we are today, and concludes with some reflections on faith and belief in the US.

Part 1 Foreward
Part 2 Author's Note
Part 3 Preface
Part 4 The History
Chapter 5 Chapter I: The Breach in the West
Chapter 6 Chapter II: A New Christian Landscape
Chapter 7 Chapter III: Rome and Canterbury Face Modernity
Chapter 8 Chapter IV: The Ecumenical Movement Gets Up and Running
Chapter 9 Chapter V: Anglicans/Episcopalians and Roman Catholics Initiate Talks and the Anglican Centre in Rome Opens
Chapter 10 Chaper VI: The Anglican Roman Catholic International Comission Begins Its Work
Part 11 Authority
Chapter 12 Chapter VII: Introduction to Authority: early Leadership, Primacy Infallibility and the Situation Today
Chapter 13 Chapter VIII: Church Governance Today and ARCIC's Agreed Statements on Authority
Part 14 The Future
Chapter 15 Chapter IX: What's Next?
Chapter 16 Chapter X: My World and Christian Unity
Part 17 Epilogue
Part 18 Acknowledgments
Part 19 Appendix I: A Common History: Christianity's Earliest Days
Part 20 Appendix II: Agreed ARCIC Documents: Eucharist (1971), Ordination (1973), Salvations and the Church (1986)
Part 21 Appendix III: Morals: Agreed Statement on Teaching and Practice (1994)
Part 22 Appendix IV: Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ (2005)
Part 23 Appendix V: Timeline
Part 24 Appendix VI: A History of the Gregorian Calendar
Part 25 Appendix VII: Population by Continent (400 BC to 1600 AD)
Part 26 Appendix VIII: Resources

[Reath] is showing us the way toward a great Christian future.