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Bishop George Bell always felt that the Church must endeavour to meet the problems of the modern world. He was thus foremost in applying the precepts of the Christian faith to national and international issues. George Bell very often raised his voice in the House of Lords (of which he was a distinguished member from December 1937 till January 1958) against class and racial hatred, against war, and against totalitarianism, and spoke for the innocent and helpless victims of persecution. Complete texts of all Bell's House of Lords speeches are presented here, published for the first time in one volume. The issues that Bell tackled are, in essence, still relevant today. This volume also includes unpublished correspondence between George Bell and Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy. After the National Socialists came to power in Germany, Bell, as a committed Christian, felt that he had to act in defence of the German Church, which the Nazis were eager to destroy. The Bishop made strenuous efforts to contact people in power in Germany, people who, he knew, took decisions with momentous consequences. Rudolf Hess was one of them.
Enabling power: Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991, ss. 14 (7), 15 (4), 18B, 21 (4), 26. Issued: 28.07.2015. Made: 18.05.2015. Approved by the General Synod: 11.07.2015. Laid: 24.07.2015. Coming into force: 01.01.2016. Effect: S.I. 2013/1916 revoked with savings. Territorial extent & classification: E. General
God’s Church in the World: The Gift of Catholic Mission presents a confident and joyful assertion of the Catholic character of Christian mission and its sacramental nature, exploring the transforming role the Catholic tradition can play in the evangelism. A range of outstanding contributors explore the gifts that the Catholic tradition - formed by a conviction that the presence of Christ in the Eucharist intensifies and motivates an awareness of the sacramental presence of Christ in the world – can bring to the church’s engagement with the world. Chapters include: • Mission and the Life of Prayer • Mission and the Sacraments • Catholic Mission in Practice • The Virgin Mary and Mission • Vocation and Mission • The Sacraments as Converting Ordinances • Social Justice and Growth in Anglo-Catholic Churches • Reflections on Scripture and Catholic Mission • Catholic Mission: Historical Perspectives The contributors represent the breadth of Catholic traditions and identities in the Church of England today.
The story of a significant British church leader who fought for justice and freedom during World War II It was to George Bell, an English bishop, that Dietrich Bonhoeffer sent his last words before he was executed at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945. Why he did so becomes clear from Andrew Chandler's new biography of George Kennedy Allen Bell (1883–1958). As he traces the arc of Bell's life, Chandler reshapes our perspective on Bonhoeffer's life and times. In addition to serving as bishop of Chichester, Bell was an internationalist and ecumenical leader, one of the great Christian humanists of the twentieth century, a tenacious critic of the obliteration bombing of enemy cities during World War II, and a key ally of those who struggled for years to resist Hitler in Germany itself. This inspiring biography raises important questions that still haunt the moral imagination today: When should the word of protest be spoken? When should nations go to war, and how should they fight? What are our obligations to the victims of dictators and international conflict?
This edition of the Church of England Year Book includes details of the work of the Archbishops' Council during 1999; details of the composition and work of the new structures of the Archbishops' Council; a summary of Synod business; and names and addresses of officers in the 44 dioceses of the Church of England; addresses, objectives and activities of organizations linked to the Church; information about the Churches and Provinces in the Anglican Communion world-wide including maps; selected church statistics; details of ecumenical organizations linked with the Anglican church; and a who's who directory of Synod members, other senior clergy, lay people and senior staff.
This practice guidance is designed to ensure that all who hold a post in the Church of England, whether lay, ordained, paid or unpaid, are trained in aspects of safeguarding relevant to their role. Replacing the 2015 House of Bishops’ Learning and Development Framework Practice Guidance, this training framework supports the development and maintenance of the necessary knowledge, attitude and skills to safeguard and protect children, young people and vulnerable adults. It sets out: ▪ The expectations and requirements for safeguarding training and development in a church context, and how this relates to statutory requirements; ▪ The required core training modules, including learning aims and objectives, plus training expectations and requirements by role; ▪ Details of specialist training modules, including learning aims and objectives; ▪ Practical advice for implementing training requirements in full. This practice guidance is commended by the House of Bishops and is designed for use by diocesan, provincial and national safeguarding advisers, archbishops and bishops, deans and their senior staff.
In What's Going on Inside, Martin Warner sets out to give an intellectual and spiritual account of the adventure of faith. With originality and courage, Warner has based this book on the vesting prayers used by the celebrant at the Eucharist. However, a scriptural metaphor best describes the book's contents. In Genesis, God promises to make Abraham's descendants as many as the stars in the night sky; this book recovers a vision of the stars for understanding the inheritance of that promise today. What goes on in our minds when we begin to think about prayer, worship and God? How do we identify what we mean by spirit? Warner explores the theme of what is shared and what is eternal and looks at the implications of the binding by God of God himself to humanity. Finally, friendship with God is seen as a foundation for understanding human dignity. In all this, the universal aspect of vesting prayers is applied - for we are all clothed in ressurrection bodies.