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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Paul David Loup Avis is an English Anglican priest, theologian, and ecumenist. He was General Secretary of the Church of England's Council for Christian Unity from 1998 to 2011, theological consultant to the Anglican Communion Office, London, from 2011 to 2012, and Canon Theologian of Exeter Cathedral from 2008 to 2013. He was honorary professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University 2017-2021 and Honorary Professor in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh 2022-. At the University of Exeter he was visiting professor of theology from 2009 to 2017 and is currently honorary research fellow. He is Director of the Centre for the Study of the Christian Church which organises occasional conferences and is linked to the journal Ecclesiology, published by Brill, of which he is Editor-in-Chief. He is the editor of the series Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History, also published by Brill. Avis was also a chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, 2008–2017.
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Published Works
- God and the Creative Imagination: Metaphor, Symbol and Myth in Religion and Theology (1999) (49)
- The Church in the Theology of the Reformers (1981) (33)
- Authority, Leadership and Conflict in the Church (1992) (21)
- Time for a Change: Reconfiguring Religion, State and Society (2008) (20)
- The Anglican Understanding of the Church: An Introduction (2000) (19)
- The Identity of Anglicanism: Essentials of Anglican Ecclesiology (2008) (18)
- Archbishop of Canterbury (2016) (17)
- A Ministry Shaped By Mission (2005) (17)
- Moses and the Magistrate: a Study in the rise of Protestant Legalism (1975) (17)
- Anglicanism and the Christian Church: Theological Resources in Historical Perspective (1989) (16)
- Catholic and Reformed (2016) (14)
- Religion and Community (2001) (14)
- The Resurrection of Jesus Christ (1993) (10)
- Beyond the Reformation?: Authority, Primacy and Unity in the Conciliar Tradition (2009) (9)
- Introduction to Ecclesiology (2018) (8)
- In Search of the Common Good (2009) (8)
- Are we Receiving ‘Receptive Ecumenism’? (2012) (7)
- United Kingdom-England (2006) (7)
- Reshaping Ecumenical Theology: The Church Made Whole? (2010) (6)
- Martin Luther: Confessor of the Faith (2011) (6)
- Foundations of Modern Historical Thought: From Machiavelli to Vico (1986) (5)
- Ecumenical theology: And the elusiveness of doctrine (1986) (5)
- Towards Baptist Catholicity: Essays on Tradition and the Baptist Vision (2006) (4)
- ‘The True Church’ in Reformation Theology (1977) (4)
- Ecumenical Reception: Its Challenge and Opportunity (2010) (4)
- The methods of modern theology: The dream of reason (1986) (3)
- John P. Bradbury, Perpetually Reforming: A Theology of Church Reform and Renewal (2014) (3)
- The Cambridge History of Christianity: Reform and Expansion 1500-1660 (2008) (3)
- Wrestling with the Diaconate (2009) (3)
- Contested legacy: An Anglican looks at Vatican II (2015) (3)
- Polity and Polemics: The Function of Ecclesiastical Polity in Theology and Practice (2015) (3)
- Harvesting the Fruits of Ecumenical Dialogue (2010) (2)
- ‘Unreal worlds meeting’? Realism and illusion in ecumenical dialogue (2012) (2)
- A wide-plastic range spread for the Canadian armed forces (1959) (2)
- Karl Barth: The Reluctant Virtuoso (1983) (2)
- John Jewel: Anglicanism's Bane or Blessing? (2008) (2)
- Richard Hooker and John Calvin (1981) (2)
- Seeking the Truth of Change in the Church: Reception, Communion and the Ordination of Women (2003) (2)
- Establishment and the Mission of a National Church (2000) (2)
- Richard Hooker and his Early Doctrine of Justification The Evolving Reputation of Richard Hooker: An Examination of Responses (2008) (2)
- Charles Gore and Modernism: A Half-Centenary Exercise in ‘Corporate Believing’ (1982) (2)
- Disagreeing Virtuously: Religious Conflict in Interdisciplinary Perspective, written by Olli-Pekka Vainio (2019) (2)
- Apologetics and the Rebirth of the Imagination (2013) (2)
- Anglican Ecclesiology (2018) (1)
- Is baptism ‘complete sacramental initiation’? (2008) (1)
- The Language of Liturgy: A Ritual Poetics, written by David Jasper, (2018) (2019) (1)
- Editorial: From Ecclesiology to Ecclesiastical Polity (2015) (1)
- Editorial: Overcoming Prejudice on the Path to Unity (2007) (1)
- The Diaconate: a flagship ministry? (2013) (1)
- Anglican Ecclesiology and the Anglican Covenant (2013) (1)
- Gore: Construction and Conflict (1988) (1)
- Intuitive Understanding (1978) (1)
- The Morally Divided Body: Ethical Disagreement and the Disunity of the Body , edited by Michael Root and James Buckley (2016) (1)
- The Vocation of Anglicanism (2016) (1)
- Apologist From The World of Science: John Polkinghorne Frs (1990) (1)
- Towards Further Convergence: Anglican and Old Catholic Ecclesiologies. The Papers of the Anglican-Old Catholic Theologians' Conference in Leeds 2005 (2006) (1)
- In the Shadow of the Frankfurt School: From ‘Critical Theory’ to ‘Critical Theology’ (1982) (1)
- The Unity We Have and the Unity We Seek (2004) (1)
- Ecumenical Theology 1910-2010: Does it have a Future? (2010) (1)
- Anglican Conciliarity and the Lambeth Conference (1998) (1)
- The Only Sacrament Left to Us: The Threefold Word of God in the Theology and Ecclesiology of Karl Barth , written by Thomas Christian Currie (2018) (1)
- The Anglican Covenant (2011) (1)
- Continental Philosophy and Modern Theology . By David Brown. Oxford, Blackwell, 1987. Pp. xii + 250. £27·50. (1989) (1)
- Rediscovering the energetic Established Church of the long eighteenth century (2020) (1)
- The Trinity and Ecumenical Church Thought (2009) (1)
- Book Review: The Catholic Roots of the Protestant Gospel (1996) (1)
- The Gospel in Christian Traditions (2011) (1)
- Authority and leadership in the Church (especially diocese and cathedral) (2020) (1)
- Anglicanism and Christian Unity in the Twentieth Century (2017) (1)
- Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Science of Theology (1979) (1)
- strategic family therapy, structural family therapy and constructivism (2014) (1)
- Anglicanism and the western Christian tradition. Continuity, change, and the search for communion. Edited by Stephen Platten (foreword Archbishop Rowan Williams and Cardinal Walter Kasper). Pp. xi+276. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2003. £19.99 (paper). 1 853111 559 2 (2005) (1)
- The Revision of the Ordinal in the Church of England 1550-2005 (2005) (1)
- Bishops in Communion? The Unity of the Episcopate, the Unity of the Diocese and the Unity of the Church (2017) (1)
- The Church's Journey into Truth: A Preface to Further Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue (1983) (1)
- Does Natural Theology Exist? (1984) (1)
- Luther: Theologian for Catholics and Protestants . Edited by George Yule. Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1985. Pp. xi + 217. £4·95. (1987) (0)
- Book Review: Considering the Great Commission: Evangelism and Mission in the Wesleyan Spirit (2006) (0)
- Book Review: The Trinity and Ecumenical Church Thought (2009) (0)
- Book Review: Credible Christianity (1994) (0)
- Editorial: Episkope, episcopacy and primacy (2002) (0)
- Anglicans and Methodists: On the Cusp of Unity? (2013) (0)
- Christopher Landau , A Theology of Disagreement: New Testament Ethics for Ecclesial Conflicts (London: SCM Press, 2021), pp. 240. ISBN 978-0334060451. (2021) (0)
- A Matter of Hope: A Theologian's Reflections on the Thought of Karl Marx . By Nicholas Lash. London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1981. Pp. 312. £14·95. (1984) (0)
- Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning . By Nancey Murphy. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 215. $26.95. (1994) (0)
- Editorial: An Agonistic Ecclesiology (2015) (0)
- Book Review: Time for a Change: Reconfiguring Religion, State and Society (2007) (0)
- William L. Sachs (ed.), The Oxford History of Anglicanism. V. Global Anglicanism, c. 1910–2000 (gen. ed. Rowan Strong; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. xxiv + 441. ISBN 978-0-19-964301-1 (hbk). RRP £95.00. (2018) (0)
- Democracy in the Christian Church: An Historical, Theological and Political Case, written by Luca Badini Confalonieri (2016) (0)
- The Roles of the Ecclesial Orders in the Governance of the Church (2022) (0)
- Andrew Picard, Myk Habets and Murray Rae (eds), T&T Clark Handbook of Colin Gunton (2021) (0)
- Understanding Newman (1984) (0)
- A. J. Joyce, Richard Hooker and Anglican Moral Theology (2013) (0)
- Canon Law and Episcopal Authority: The Canons of Antioch and Serdica Christopher W B Stephens Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015, Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs, xi + 288 pp (hardback £75) ISBN: 978-0-19-873222-8 (2018) (0)
- Book Reviews : For Beginners (1988) (0)
- SJT volume 32 issue 6 Cover and Front matter (1979) (0)
- Book Review: Church, Kingdom, World (1987) (0)
- The Depth Dimension of Priestly-Pastoral Ministry (2018) (0)
- To Build Christ's Kingdom: F. D. Maurice and His Writings (2010) (0)
- Book Review: What Christianity is Not: An Exercise in ‘Negative’ Theology, written by Douglas John Hall (2015) (0)
- An Unfinished Council: Vatican ii, Pope Francis, and the Renewal of Catholicism, written by Richard R. Gaillardetz (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Studying Mary: The Virgin Mary in Anglican and Roman Catholic Theology and Devotion – The ARCIC Working Papers (2009) (0)
- Book Review: The Encyclopedia of Protestantism (2006) (0)
- Catholic Ecclesiology and the Conciliar Tradition (2011) (0)
- On the Integrity of Doctrinal Theology Today (2022) (0)
- Ecclesiology and Ethnography: An Unresolved Relationship (2018) (0)
- Mapping the Differentiated Consensus of the Joint Declaration, written by Jakob Karl Rinderknecht (2018) (0)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Witness to Christ and the Church (2006) (0)
- The Personalism of John Henry Newman, written by John F. Crosby (2017) (0)
- Roger Trigg, Religious Diversity: Philosophical and Political Dimensions (2015) (0)
- Recognition and Religion: A Historical and Systematic Study, written by Risto Saarinen, (2016) (2019) (0)
- Reflections on ARCIC II (1987) (0)
- The Hermeneutics of Unity (2008) (0)
- The Sacrifice We Offer: The Tridentine Dogma and Its Reinterpretation. By David N. Power. Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1987. Pp. xv + 206. £12·95. (1989) (0)
- Historical Theology: An Introduction . By Geoffrey W. Bromiley. Edinburgh, T. and T. Clark, 1979. Pp. xxix + 464. £7·00. (1980) (0)
- Andrew Chandler and David Hein, Archbishop Fisher, 1945–1961: Church, State and World (Burlington, VT and Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), pp. 261, £30.00, ISBN 978-1-4094-1233-5. (2016) (0)
- Overcoming “The Church as Counter-sign of the Kingdom” (2020) (0)
- Theology and the Enlightenment (2022) (0)
- The Hermeneutics of Doctrine (2010) (0)
- The God We Worship: An Exploration of Liturgical Theology , written by Nicholas Woltertorff (2018) (0)
- Book Reviews : Anglican Faith and Worship (2004) (0)
- Book Review: From Exorcism to Ecstasy: Eight Views of Baptism (2009) (0)
- Unreal Worlds Meeting (2016) (0)
- Stumbling in Holiness: Sin and Sanctity in the Church, written by Brian P. Flanagan, (2018) (2020) (0)
- Book Review: The Making of the Anglican Church Worldwide (1998) (0)
- Ecclesiology – An Impossible Possibility (2018) (0)
- Book Review: Faith for Today (1990) (0)
- Book Review: Denominationalism Illustrated and Explained, written by Russell E. Richey (2015) (0)
- Book Review: Ministry in the Countryside (1995) (0)
- Peter Vardy. God of Our Fathers? Do we Know What we Believe? Pp. ix + 124. (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1987.) £3·95. (1988) (0)
- Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth . By Lesslie Newbigin. London, SPCK, 1991. Pp. 90. £5.99. (1994) (0)
- Book Review: Believing Three Ways in One God (1993) (0)
- Conciliarism and Church Law: Studies on Franciscus Zabarella and the Council of Constance Thomas E Morrisey Ashgate, Farnham, 2014, 370 pp (hardback £105) ISBN: 978-1-4724-2387-0 (2018) (0)
- Britain and Ireland (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Let God be God (1990) (0)
- Newman and Heresy: The Anglican Years . By Stephen Thomas. Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv + 335. £35.00. (1995) (0)
- Prayer Book Use and Conformity (2015) (0)
- Robert Boak Slocum, The Anglican Imagination: Portraits and Sketches of Modern Anglican Theologians (2016) (0)
- 1662 and All That (2013) (0)
- Book Review: The Genesis of Doctrine (1991) (0)
- Book Review: The Olive Branch (1994) (0)
- The Shaking of the Seven Hills (1979) (0)
- Anglican theology . By Mark Chapman. (Doing Theology.) Pp. vii+269. London–New York: TT 978 0 567 00802 2 (2013) (0)
- INFORMAL DISCUSSION. SLIPFORMING. (1981) (0)
- Talking Points from Books (1994) (0)
- Bruce Kaye, The Rise and Fall of the English Christendom: Theocracy, Christology, Order and Power (2019) (0)
- Book Review: The Incarnation of Freedom and Love (1992) (0)
- Another St Samuel (1980) (0)
- Lambeth 2020: Conference or council? (2019) (0)
- Reviewing the Reformation (2008) (0)
- Book Review: Can the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches be Reconciled? (1988) (0)
- David C. Steinmetz, Calvin in Context, 2nd edition (2013) (0)
- Towards a Richer Appreciation of the Oxford Movement (2020) (0)
- Towards an Ecclesiology of the Cathedral (2019) (0)
- Anglicanism and eucharistic ecclesiology (2006) (0)
- Revelation, Epistemology, and Authority (2021) (0)
- Paul Valliere, Conciliarism: A History of Decision-making in the Church (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 289. ISBN 978-1-107-01574-6 (hbk). (2012) (0)
- Editorial: What is the Church? (2007) (0)
- The Feminist Critique of Christianity (1987) (0)
- Book Review: Method in Ecumenical Theology: The Lessons so Far (1997) (0)
- Anglican confirmation, 1662–1820 . By Phillip Tovey. (Liturgy, Worship and Society.) Pp. xi + 201 incl. frontispiece, 1 figure and 43 tables. Farnham–Burlington, Vt : Ashgate, 2014. £60. 978 1 4724 2217 0 (2015) (0)
- Book Reviews (2013) (0)
- Liquid Ecclesiology: The Gospel and the Church, written by Pete Ward (2018) (0)
- Ralph McMichael(ed.), The Vocation of Anglican Theology (London: SCM Press, 2014), pp. xii+315, £35.00, ISBN 978-0-334-02973-1 (pbk). (2015) (0)
- F. J. A. Hort: Eminent Victorian . By Graham A. Patrick. Sheffield, The Almond Press, 1988. Pp. 130. £21·50. (1989) (0)
- Book Review: The Modern Theologians (1990) (0)
- Torrance Kirby (ed.), A Companion to Richard Hooker, with a Foreword by Rowan Williams (2012) (0)
- Book Review: After Writing (1998) (0)
- Editorial: The Mystical and the Institutional (2004) (0)
- Anglican-Methodist. (United Kingdom) (2002) (0)
- William Temple: Pioneer and Pillar of Christian Unity (2020) (0)
- Creative theology and the making of doctrine (2013) (0)
- Power and Christian Theology (2009) (0)
- Book Review: Themes and Issues in Christianity (1998) (0)
- Neville Figgis, CR: His Life, Thought and Significance (2022) (0)
- Editorial: Presbyters, Bishops and Holy Order (2005) (0)
- Editorial∵The Fragility of Christian Unity and the Lambeth Conference 1920 and 2021 (2020) (0)
- Stephen Sykes and the Essence of Christianity (2019) (0)
- Reconciling Theology: Three Concepts for Convergence (2019) (0)
- The Paschal Mystery and the Church (2021) (0)
- Cambridge Theology in the Nineteenth Century (2010) (0)
- Mark Chapman, Anglican Theology (London and New York: T & T Clark, 2012), pp. vii + 269, ISBN 978-0-567-00802-2 (pbk). (2012) (0)
- A Challenge to Communion Ecclesiology (2009) (0)
- Book Review: Religious Commitment and Secular Reason (2001) (0)
- Not yet ‘Anglicanism’ (2020) (0)
- Editorial: Introducing the IJSCC (2002) (0)
- John Calvin for the whole Church (2010) (0)
- A Companion to Anglican Eucharistic Theology, written by Brian Douglas (2014) (0)
- Editorial: Resourcing Episcopal Ministry (2014) (0)
- The Conciliar Tradition in the Western Church, from the Eve of the Great Schismto the Vatican Councils (2004) (0)
- Eugene R. Schlesinger, (2019) Sacrificing the Church: Mass, Mission, and Ecumenism (2021) (0)
- Liturgy as Proclamation (2019) (0)
- Missa Est! A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology, written by Eugene R. Schlesinger (2018) (0)
- Royal priesthood in the English Reformation. By Malcom B. Yarnell iii. (Oxford Theology & Religion Monographs.) Pp. xii + 320 + 8 colour plates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £70. 978 0 19 968625 4 (2015) (0)
- Ecclesia and Ethics: Moral Formation and the Church, edited by R. Allen Jones III, John Frederick, John Anthony Dunne, Eric Lewellen and Janghoon Park (2018) (0)
- Christ in a Changing World: Towards an Ethical Christology. By Tom F. Driver. London, SCM Press, 1981. Pp. xi + 183. £5.95. (1982) (0)
- Review Article: Faith and Fantasy in the Countryside (1991) (0)
- Alexander J. Hughes, Oliver Quick and the Quest for a Christian Metaphysic (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015), pp. 226. ISBN 978-1-4724-5250-4. £60.00 (hbk). (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Plurality and Ambiguity (1989) (0)
- Paul D. Molnar and Myk Habets (eds), T&T Clark Handbook of Thomas F. Torrance (2021) (0)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Locher, Sign of the Advent: A Study in Protestant Ecclesiology (Fribourg: Academic Press, 2004), pp. 240. ISBN 3-7278-1468-3 (hbk) (2007) (0)
- Science, Reason and Religion . By Derek Stanesby. London and New York, Routledge, 1988. Pp. 210. No price. Philosophers of Consciousness . By Eucene Webb. Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 1988. Pp. 342. $30.00. (1990) (0)
- Affirming the truth of imagination: The alternative tradition (2013) (0)
- Book Review: Fathers and Anglicans (2002) (0)
- Anglicans export the gospel and party strife to Empire and mission field (2021) (0)
- Polarity and Reductionism (1976) (0)
- David Fergusson, Church, State and Civil Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. vii + 213. £16.99. (2009) (0)
- Apologetics without Apology: Speaking of God in a World Troubled by Religion, written by Elaine Graham (2019) (0)
- Book Review: Finding the Church (2002) (0)
- Reason and Reality . By John Polkinghorne. London, S.P.C.K., 1991. Pp. 119. £6.95. (1993) (0)
- Theology, Political Theory, and Pluralism: Beyond Tolerance and Difference (2011) (0)
- Religion in Public Life: Must Faith be Privatized? Roger Trigg Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, 262 pp (hardback £36.00) ISBN: 978-0-19-927980-7; (paperback £16.00) ISBN: 978-0-19-954367-0 (2009) (0)
- KateTyler, The Ecclesiology of Thomas F. Torrance . Lanham, NJ: Lexington Books, 2019, xvi + 251pp. $95.00 (2023) (0)
- At the Limits of the Secular: Reflections on Faith and Public LifeEdited by William A Barbieri Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, 2014, xii + 374 pp (paperback £25.99) ISBN: 978-0-8028-6877-0 (2016) (0)
- Imitating Jesus: An Inclusive Approach to New Testament Ethics Holiness and Ecclesiology in the New Testament (2010) (0)
- The Gospel as a Work of Art (2001) (0)
- Book Review: Authority and Anglicanism (1997) (0)
- Benedict and Newman (2011) (0)
- The Church's One Foundation (1986) (0)
- An Anglican Magnum Opus (2000) (0)
- Christ Present in Faith: Luther's View of Justification (2008) (0)
- Book Review: The Humiliation of the Word (1986) (0)
- Essence of Christianity (2003) (0)
- In Search of Authority: Anglican Theological Method from the Reformation to the Enlightenment (2014) (0)
- Clinging to the Cusp of Unity (2022) (0)
- Effective Options to Reduce Risk (PDF) (2004) (0)
- The Christian Church (2002) (0)
- Theological Investigations. Vol. XXI. By Karl Rahner. London, Darton, Longman & Todd, 1988. Pp. 279. £25.00. (1991) (0)
- Effective Options to Reduce Risk (2004) (0)
- Ecclesiology and Mission Today's Europe. International Old Catholic Anglican Theologians' Conference 2011 (2012) (0)
- Serafino M. Lanzetta, Vatican II: A Pastoral Council (2017) (0)
- Tom Greggs, The Priestly Catholicity of the Church, vol. 1 of Dogmatic Ecclesiology (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2019), pp. lxviii + 492. (2021) (0)
- The Shape of Catholic Theology . By Aidan Nichols, O. P. Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1991. Pp. 374. £12.50. (1994) (0)
- Jesus and the Church (2021) (0)
- Gore and Theological Synthesis (1975) (0)
- A Catholic Minority Church in a World of Seekers , edited by Staf Hellemans and Peter Jonkers (2017) (0)
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