ATC 1999 "Take thou authority..." The Theology of the Ordained Ministry in the Church Today

This book contains the collection of papers delivered at the Atlantic Theological Conference in Halifax, N.S., in June 1999. The book includes articles by the Rev'd Dr. Harry Robinson, The Rev'd Dr. Robert Crouse, The Rev'd Ronald Bagnall, and The Rev'd Dr. Peter Toon. The essays in this volume present to church members of the present day a thought-provoking look at the questions and controversies pertaining to this important subject. As the Rev'd Dr. Harry Robinson says, "The almost perpetual crisis in the theological understanding of the ordained ministry is the sacramental nature of that ministry. The outward and visible can so easily obscure the inward and spiritual, as the outward and visible marks of authority so easily hide the absence of the inward and spiritual authority."