Questioning Authority The Theology and Practice of Authority in the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion

"Ellen K. Wondra has done us an enormous service by taking on the vexing issue of Authority in the Anglican Communion. The theology, history, and contemporary story of Anglicanism's love-hate relationship with authority are carefully woven together in this substantial volume. Dr. Wondra argues for an understanding of authority which is relational and dispersed rather than juridical and focused. In such a system communion is experienced in diversity not in spite of it. This is a catholicity ordered in a 'conciliar economy' in which authority enhances communion while involving the whole body of the church in taking responsibility for its mission." Rt. Rev. C. Christopher Epting, Presiding Bishop's Deputy for Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations (Ret.)