The article is a selective survey of contemporary doctrinal theology in the Church of England, set against die background of the Anglican theological tradition. Anglicanism sees itself as both catholic and reformed; it therefore aspires to be a mediating theology between two major traditions of the Church that exist in tension. The Anglican theological consciousness is not confessional, but ecumenical. Anglican theological distinctiveness is most apparent in ecclesiology (Sykes, Avis). Although Anglicanism lacks a tradition of summae or multi-volume systematic theologies, it has a doctrinal intention and a doctrinal tradition that continues today. Many writers of the past two centuries approached the doctrinal form, even if their starting point was elsewhere (Maurice, Gore, Temple, Ramsey). Others stood obliquely to the Anglican tradition, but shaped its doctrinal temper in different ways (Mascall, Macquarrie). Gore, Ramsey and Hoskyns, with their themes of transcendence and judgement, had affinities with dialectical theology. Doctrinal theology emerging from die Church of England is not marked by particular issues, but falls into several schools of thought: Radical Orthodoxy (Milbank, Pickstock, G. Ward), Reformation orthodoxy (McGrath, Webster), 'ordinary' orthodoxy (Hardy, Ford, Brown, Gorringe, not forgetting O'Donovan), orthodoxy shaped by feminism (Coakley), and comparative theology (K Ward) - and then there is Rowan Williams, who is unique.

Enthalten in:
Theologische Literaturzeitung; 2008/7/8 Monatsschrift für das gesamte Gebiet der Theologie und Religionswissenschaft (2008)

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Serie / Reihe: Theologische Literaturzeitung

Personen: Avis, Paul

Schlagwörter: Theologie Tradition Orthodoxie Anglikanische Kirche