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| A Church at War: Anglicans and Homosexuality | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen Bates
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1850434808
Dewey Decimal Number: 261.835766
EAN: 9781850434801
ASIN: 1850434808
Publication Date: October 1, 2004
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Product Description
The consecration of V. Gene Robinson as an openly gay bishop of New Hampshire has divided the Anglican Community, a historic pillar of Christianity embraced by seventy million people in 164 countries. Most Anglican groups outside the United States oppose the ordination of gay clergy. After Robinson's consecration three months ago, overseas bishops jointly announced that they were in a "state of impaired communion" with the 2.3 million-member US Branch of the Episcopal Church--a step short of declaring a full schism.
In A Church at War, journalist Stephen Bates assesses the current state and historical context of this fight. Including personal interviews with all chief players in the struggle, this is the only book to offer the full story of the Church's vicious row over homosexuality. Showing the strengths and weaknesses of the different positions, Bates takes the details of church politics and creates an engrossing and exciting narrative. As the threat of schism looms ever closer, this book, with its controversial yet fair look at the fight will be both illuminating and essential to all with an interest in the Church and its relationship with homosexuality.
Book Description
The consecration of V. Gene Robinson as an openly gay bishop of New Hampshire has divided the Anglican Community, a historic pillar of Christianity embraced by seventy million people in 164 countries. In A Church at War, journalist Stephen Bates assesses the current state and historical context of this fight. Including personal interviews with all chief players in the struggle, this is the only book to offer the full story of the Church's battle over homosexuality. As the threat of schism looms ever closer, this book, with its controversial yet fair look at the fight will be both illuminating and essential to all with an interest in the Church and its stance on homosexuality.
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 Brilliant expose of evangelical fundamentalism October 8, 2004
35 out of 45 found this review helpful
Bates provides a brilliant expose of how a small cabal of conservative Evangelicals, a minority even within the Evangelical tradition in Anglicanism, have made homosexuality the definining issue in the Anglican Communion today. Bates ruthlessly exposes the media spin, American big money backers, unbalanced extremists and double standards behind the anti-gay camp in Anglicanism. Bates traces the growth of conservative Evangelicalism within Anglicanism in contrast to an increasingly pluralist and tolerant social stimmung in Britain and Ireland, relating how the sense of being backed into a corner makes the extremist wing of the Church more dangerous. He also casts a caustic eye over the double standards that make male-male sex a defining issue of orthodoxy for conservative Evangelicals while they ignore issues like polygamy and Christian involvement in the Rwanda genocide.
This book is disturbing. After reading it, moderate, Catholic and open Evangelical Anglicans will be in no doubt that we are engaged in a war for the soul of the church. In his final chapter, Bates looks at some of the casualties of that War. For the sake of those broken people, it is a war we must win.
 Teen-reader October 6, 2004
20 out of 58 found this review helpful
At first glance this book,Church at War:Anglicans and Homosexuality,looks promising.But once the reader delves into its biased pages, they will not see a fair and balanced book, but a mean spirited, one-sided,and un-polished view. The author, Stephen Bates, portrays conservatives as ( and these are quotes)," Portly and Red-faced," and also," Older, white,and mousy." Keep in mind these are people he obviously does not agree with.When describing liberal people however, he says things like," Young, bright and black." These comments are offensive to me. My vote is a thumbs down.
Bates Motel October 7, 2004
19 out of 64 found this review helpful
Unless you are a liberal, save your money. Stephen "Norman" Bates' book belongs in the slasher novel category. He is guilty of lobbing grenades at the orthodox and conservatives. After reading Bates book, the reader can understand why Nigerian Archbishop Akinola and Dr. John Stott didn't grant Bates an interview. Bishop Edward Little must wonder why Bates called him "mousey". What a shame Bates, an Oxford historian, marred his book with such an infantile description of Dr. David Virtue. His book fails miserably at helping the warring factions to understand each other. Until Bates gets to a gym, he should refrain from calling others "portly". Mercifully, he spared the reader his mug shot.
Excellent book! September 6, 2005
9 out of 17 found this review helpful
I loved this book--it made me think a great deal about how I have bought into fundamentalist ways of thinking. Thank you.
 Interesting comparison September 27, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
It's interesting to note that of the reviews so far, the two favourable reviews both give their real names (and five stars), whereas the two critical reviews do not (and they both give one star).
I think the readers biases are influencing their judgements here.
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