{"id":71253,"date":"2021-05-31T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/online-launch-for-doctrine-committee-book\/"},"modified":"2021-05-31T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T13:46:00","slug":"online-launch-for-doctrine-committee-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/online-launch-for-doctrine-committee-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Online launch for Doctrine Committee book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Doctrine Committee&#8217;s new book\u00a0<em>Made in the Image of God: Being Human in the Christian Tradition<\/em> has just been published by Sacristy Press.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The online launch, including an introduction from the Primus, took place on 28 May and it can be watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacristy.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/book-launch-made-in-the-image-of-god#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_RAGwlcWxn8?start=1\" width=\"407\" height=\"229\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new book of twelve essays from the Doctrine Committee of the Scottish Episcopal Church examines what it means to be human in our present world,\u201d say editors Michael Fuller and David Jasper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we emerge from the global covid-19 pandemic we quickly realise that we can never simply return to normal \u2013 and nor, perhaps, should we be seeking to do so. For we live at a time when we face ultimate questions as to our very survival and the survival of life on our planet, and it is in this context that we seek to recover the sense of our humanity as it has been created and redeemed by God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll our essays are written by practising Christians, and in drawing these authors together for this project we felt it to be of the utmost importance that we adopt an interdisciplinary approach, bringing to bear the specialist expertise of our various contributors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that the rich variety of topics which we address, and the voices exploring those topics, will help readers to think a little more carefully \u2018outside the box\u2019, and that they will provide a challenge and an invitation to explore territory that may be unfamiliar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book\u2019s contributors includes the editors and also Nicholas Taylor, John Reuben Davies, Trevor Hart, Robert Gillies, John McLuckie, Harriet Harris, Delyth M. Reid, Margaret B. Adam, Eric Stoddart, and Alison Jasper.<\/p>\n<p>The book has been commended by The Most Rev Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, who said: \u201cThe Doctrine Committee of the Scottish Episcopal Church is to be commended for this volume. The authors face up to change and evolution in western understandings of Homo sapiens viewing human beings from perspectives both traditional and contemporary, theological and secular. That each chapter is accompanied by further reading and questions makes it additionally rich both for individuals and reading groups alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copies are available for \u00a324.99 from Sacristy Press. To order, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacristy.co.uk\/books\/theology\/image-of-god\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Doctrine Committee&#8217;s new book\u00a0Made in the Image of God: Being Human in the Christian Tradition has just been published by Sacristy Press. 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