The Vowed Life by Matthew Bullimore

The Vowed Life by Matthew Bullimore

The Vowed Life reflects on a paradox in the Church today: one that represents an important challenge to its mission and witness. Vows continue to be made sacramentally in the Church, yet there remains a great longing for a vowed life which would be truly transforming and life-giving. Vows are simultaneously alluring and unappealing: lay memberships of religious orders have escalated, yet very few traditional religious communities have attracted younger members due to their more demanding lifelong commitments. The Vowed Life explores why and how this has come to be, and how the Church urgently needs to respond to this paradoxical challenge. Returning to baptism as the anchor of all other Christian vows, a range of contributors consider whether the longing for forms of life that are profoundly life-changing is a displaced desire for something that should be intrinsic to Christian life. In a Church that prioritises pastoral sensitivity, they ask how those demands could be newly expressed for our culture. In seeking a coherent theology of vows in liturgical practice and sacramental context, they find that fresh attention to ‘the vowed life’ also has much to offer to the Church’s continuing conversations about sex, gender and identity, and to a ‘mixed ecology’ approach to the life of the Church and its mission.

Matthew Bullimore is Assistant Editor for Crucible and has taught Christian doctrine for a number of years. Sarah Coakley is the former Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.

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ISBN 13	9781786221896
ISBN 10	1786221896
Title	The Vowed Life
Author	Matthew Bullimore
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Canterbury Press Norwich
Year published	2023-01-31
Number of pages	192
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