The Open Body—Essays in Anglican Ecclesiology

Finding current debates within the Anglican community to be more concerned with regulation and authority than with theology, religious scholars and practitioners from Britain and the US take the metaphor of the church as the body of Christ as a pivot for reflecting on the nature and role of the church in society today. The open body represents the church interacting with the world, as opposed to a closed body that would set its own rules regardless of external matters. The themes are forming and governing the open body, theology, identity, and practices. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Zachary Guiliano is a doctoral candidate in medieval history at St. John’s College (Cantab.) and a Gates Cambridge Scholar (2012–2015). He was recently Kellogg Fellow at the Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard, where he was a regular lay preacher and catechist. His primary research focuses on patristic and early medieval biblical interpretation and preaching, but his interests range from contemporary biblical studies to Anglican history to medieval Latin paleography. He has published in the Encylopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Studia Patristica, and The Living Church. He has also contributed articles to medieval manuscript exhibits at Harvard University.
Charles M. Stang is Associate Professor of Early Christian Thought at Harvard Divinity School and a former Episcopal Church Foundation Fellow (2002–2005). His research and teaching focus on the history and theology of Christianity in late antiquity, especially Eastern varieties of Christianity. He is the author of Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: ?No Longer I?, co-editor with Sarah Coakley of Rethinking Dionysius the Areopagite, and editor of The Waking Dream of T. E. Lawrence: Essays on His Life, Literature, and Legacy.