Noel Cox is a priest in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, currently Priest-in-Charge, St Jude’s Avondale, and Port Chaplain, Auckland, for The Mission to Seafarers.

Churches within the Anglican Communion view themselves as being part of the “one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church”, and Anglicanism’s via media has enabled it to be viewed as a focus for ecumenism. Recent innovations with regard to ordained ministry may, however, have compromised both the claim to catholicity and its ecumenical usefulness. In this book, Noel Cox – a scholar priest with experience of ministry in several Anglican provinces world-wide – examines the historical, theological, and legal aspects of these developments and their consequences, with particular attention to Ordained Local Ministry. His analysis and conclusions deserve careful and prayerful consideration.

• Chapter 1 The church and Holy OrdersChapter 2 Sources and Limits on AuthorityChapter 3 The Priesthood of All BelieversChapter 4 Local Ordained MinistryChapter 5 Local or Universal MinistryChapter 6 Challenges to New Forms of MinistryChapter 7 Ecumenism and Holy OrdersChapter 8 Implications

Noel Cox is a priest in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, currently Priest-in-Charge, St Jude’s Avondale, and Port Chaplain, Auckland, for The Mission to Seafarers.

Churches within the Anglican Communion view themselves as being part of the “one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church”, and Anglicanism’s via media has enabled it to be viewed as a focus for ecumenism. Recent innovations with regard to ordained ministry may, however, have compromised both the claim to catholicity and its ecumenical usefulness. In this book, Noel Cox – a scholar priest with experience of ministry in several Anglican provinces world-wide – examines the historical, theological, and legal aspects of these developments and their consequences, with particular attention to Ordained Local Ministry. His analysis and conclusions deserve careful and prayerful consideration.

• Chapter 1 The church and Holy OrdersChapter 2 Sources and Limits on AuthorityChapter 3 The Priesthood of All BelieversChapter 4 Local Ordained MinistryChapter 5 Local or Universal MinistryChapter 6 Challenges to New Forms of MinistryChapter 7 Ecumenism and Holy OrdersChapter 8 Implications

Noel Cox is a priest in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, currently Priest-in-Charge, St Jude’s Avondale, and Port Chaplain, Auckland, for The Mission to Seafarers.

Churches within the Anglican Communion view themselves as being part of the “one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church”, and Anglicanism’s via media has enabled it to be viewed as a focus for ecumenism. Recent innovations with regard to ordained ministry may, however, have compromised both the claim to catholicity and its ecumenical usefulness. In this book, Noel Cox – a scholar priest with experience of ministry in several Anglican provinces world-wide – examines the historical, theological, and legal aspects of these developments and their consequences, with particular attention to Ordained Local Ministry. His analysis and conclusions deserve careful and prayerful consideration.

• Chapter 1 The church and Holy OrdersChapter 2 Sources and Limits on AuthorityChapter 3 The Priesthood of All BelieversChapter 4 Local Ordained MinistryChapter 5 Local or Universal MinistryChapter 6 Challenges to New Forms of MinistryChapter 7 Ecumenism and Holy OrdersChapter 8 Implications