Realizing Beloved Community: Report from the House of Bishops Theology Committee

Description:

A groundbreaking study of the theology of beloved community from leading clergy, scholars and thought leaders.

Brief description: James F. Turrell teaches liturgy at the School of Theology of the University of the South, where he also serves as dean. He has served on the Episcopal Church's Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, where he led a committee that revised the rites for the catechumenate in the Book of Occasional Services. He is a priest of the Diocese of Bethlehem in Pennsylvania. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Review Quotes:

"This is a welcome and important statement by the House of Bishops Theology Committee that will strengthen and continue the church's important conversations about beloved community. It challenges us not to stop with conversation but to move on to action - repairing and transforming relationships through acts of material repentance."
-The Living Church

"I am so grateful for the... work of the theologians and bishops who have spent the last five years working on [this study] . . . This is hard and holy work, not to hurt or harm, but to help and heal."
-Michael B. Curry, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church