Thinking Anglicans
Over the past two years, I have been part of a group organising webinars on the theme ‘Power in the Church of England’. It has been a joint project of the Michael Ramsey Centre for Anglican Studies at Durham University and the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University. Videos of all eight webinars are available on our website . These blogposts are my own personal reflections, prompted by those presentations and the conversations that followed them – and also by papers and
‘Power’ is often taken to refer to a person’s capacity to influence others to bring about some desired outcome.
This definition conjures up a certain picture. We begin with an individual, who has some project in mind. We then widen the field of view, and see that this person is surrounded by others. We ask about the individual’s capacity to enlist these others in service of the project.
Thinking Anglicans