The Editor: James Barnett is an Anglican clergyman and an educationalist. He was head of Religious Studies at Uppingham and set up lay training schemes in Oxford and Truro. From 1995-2001 he was the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative at the European Institutions and now represents the Inter-European Commission on Church and School at the Council of Europe.

«This particular 280-page volume...has brought together extraordinary wisdom and insight from some of our foremost theologians and thinkers with European expertise.» (Harvey Richardson, Methodist Recorder)

• Contents: James Barnett: A Spectator Calls – Robin Guthrie: A Graceless Trudge – Richard Fischer: The Council of Europe and the Churches: the Same Struggle? – Keith Jenkins: The Churches and Europe: Relating to the European Institutions – Paul Gallagher: The Holy See and Europe: an Enduring Commitment – John Arnold: CEC and EECCS: the Process of Integration 1986-1998 – Zoltan Bona: Understanding and Valuing European Diversity – Simon Palmer: International Organisations and Religion: is Dialogue Necessary or Possible? – Marc Lenders: The Future of Rural Life in Europe: the Minutes of an Experiment – Peter Schreiner: Education and Religion for a Pluriconfessional and Pluricultural Europe – Jean-Pierre Ribaut: The Council of Europe, the Churches and... ‘Mélanges’ – Michael Vorbeck: Perceptions of the Churches by the European Institutions – Metropolitan Daniel: The Orthodox Church and Human Rights: a Pastoral Response to a Pressing Issue – James Barnett: La Viande Ovine Anglaise: or, which Sheep do we Follow? An Anglican Anomaly – Mary Tanner: A Theology for Europe: the raison d’être of the Church – Ola Tjørhom: The Goal of Visible Unity: Reaffirming our Commitment.