The Grosvenor Essays, produced by the Doctrine Committee, are published on an annual basis and are designed to inform and stimulate people within the SEC - and beyond. Click the essay titles to access each essay's entry in our Publications section.
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Grosvenor Essay No 1: Sketches Towards a Theology of Science - In this essay, based on a series of focused, face-to-face science-theology dialogues between members of the Doctrine Committee (a Bishop, a diocesan dean, three university academics in theology and religious studies, a teacher in a theological institute with a chemistry doctorate, and a physics professor with some biological expertise), the authors aim to theologize about science, to ask how as disciples of Christ we should think about the scientific endeavour. In other words, their concern is with developing a theology of science.
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Grosvenor Essay No 2: Theology and the Power of Image - This essay is to be read as a series of sketches which the authors hope will cast light on its central theme from a variety of perspectives. Its purpose is to encourage theological thinking in the context of looking and experiencing the power of the image in a changing world that is yet rooted, for the authors, in the ancient traditions of the Christian faith.
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Grosvenor Essay No 3: The Inter-faith Encounter - It is important for the Christian Churches to respond to [the] new diverse context that is Scotland. We need to recognise that current forms of institutional Christianity are in decline, and that inter-faith encounters occur in the contexts of a diverse religious landscape and the myriad spiritual quests of individuals.
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Grosvenor Essay No 4: The Shape of Our Church - The present Essay is the fourth in a series of Essays produced by the Doctrine Committee of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Like its predecessors, it is intended to be a stimulus to inquiring readers. This Essay addresses itself more specifically to Scottish Episcopalians: it is an exercise in Ecclesiology, the study of the Church.
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Grosvenor Essay No 5: On Salvation - The framework of a Christian answer to the question why salvation? rests in a basic conviction about the natural, God-given human condition as we actually experience it. A simple way to express this would be to say that there is enough bad news about being human, to make good news from God about it not merely worthwhile but necessary.
