Contents:

The authority of the servant

Authority in crisis-- The collapse of authority-- Authority making a comeback-- The lessons of the past-- 'Absolutes' and their problems-- Thinking again-- Recapitulation: the argument so far-- The inevitability of authority-- The authority of the cross-- Authority not power-- The goal of power-- Two maps of authority

An Anglican response-- Tension, freedom and division-- Anglicanism as dialogue-- The Anglican trilogy-- New ways for old truths-- The office of the bishop-- Local and global-- A matter of history-- Dispersed authority-- The ordination of women-- Strengthening the structures for communion-- Consent of the faithful-- The Gamaliel principle-- The role of worship-- From the church to the world