Table of Contents

Foreword by Jeffrey John or David Stancliffe
Introduction: Mark Chapman
1. "Living the Magnificat" - James Alison
2. "Living the Magnificat in the Shadow of Globalisation" - Linda Hogan (Director of the Irish School of Ecumenics and Professor at Trinity College Dublin)
3. "Catholic openness and the nature of Christian politics" - Mark Chapman
4. "The Magnificat: Mary Speaks on Justice" - Mongezi Guma (Rector of Christ the King, Sophiatown and Chairperson of the South African Commission for the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Minorities)
5. "Being Anglican Around the World" - Michael Doe (General Secretary of USPG)
6. "Justice and Joy: Participating in the Mission of God" - Stephen Cottrell (Bishop of Reading)
7. "Hospitality and Holiness" - Sr Margaret Magdalen CSMV
8. "Who's in and who's out?" - Joe Cassidy

Promotional Information

A reflection by leading Roman Catholic and Anglican writers on the Magnificat - Mary's great song of praise and transformation, in light of contemporary global struggles and inequalities.

About the Author

Mark Chapman is Vice-Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, and a Reader in Modern Theology at the University of Oxford, UK. He has written widely on modern church history, ethics and theology. His books include Ernst Troeltsch and Liberal Theology (Oxford), The Coming Crisis (Sheffield), Blair's Britain (DLT) and Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford). 

Reviews

Review in New Directions, January 2008

"This collection of lectures and sermons outlines why Mary and her song are so fundamental to the Christian faith and how its message should be read in the current climate of church politics and world injustice... Mary's song is a 'summons to hope', and this book enables its readers, and the church, to identify this hope and engage with it, and the message of the Magnificat." - Antony Dutton, Theological Book Review, Vol 21 No 1, 2009                   
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