- Author: The Doctrine Committee of the Scottish Episcopal Church
- Price: £2.50
- Published: February 2007
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.
Specifically, it asks what it is that characterises our Church. It seems appropriate to be engaging in such scrutiny at a time when there is a great deal of interest in, and discussion of, what it means to be an Episcopalian - and, indeed, in the broader context, to be an Anglican - in the wake of the Windsor Report of 2004.
This has not been an easy task. Many areas of the life and work of our Church overlap, so that the structure of an essay of this type must inevitably be to some extent arbitrary. Nevertheless, we hope that offering reflections on the Scottish Episcopal Church's mission, ministry, doctrinal foundations, and so on, will afford a way in to thinking about the shape of our Church.
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