This landmark volume from an influential group of Anglican theologians explores baptism as the foundation for living out all forms of Christian vocation – in confirmation, marriage, ordination, and religious life. It offers theological and pastoral perspectives on the centrality and significance of baptism for a Church that has perhaps lost a sense of the radical commitment that baptism calls for. It explores the meaning of vows today as promise, covenant, oath, Rule and explores the difference between religious and secular vows. It considers the nature of the vows under which all Christians live, and the particular vows such as marriage and ordination embraced by some. Together, these perceptive reflections offer a theological and pastoral resource for activating every Christian's the sense of call and response whatever their mode of life.

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The Vowed Life
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List of Contributors
Introduction: The Vowed Life – Its Demand and Promise
Part I: Re-Thinking Anglican Vows: The Integrity of Vows in the Christian Life
1. The Revival of the Religious Life in the Church of England: How Vows Became Newly Contentious in a Victorian Culture of Convention
2. ‘Name this child’: Speech, Identity and Life-long Commitment in Baptismal Vows
3. The Role of Confirmation in the Vowed Life: A Reassessment
4. Marriage: Vowing to Take Time
5. Clerical Vows: The ‘Wild Choice’ of Ordination
6. Religious Vows: ‘The Liberty to Bind’
Part II: Contemporary Anglican Reflections on the ‘Vowed Life’ of Religious Community
7. Religious Vows in the Church of England, Then and Now
8. Journeying into New Monasticism
9. ‘Some Peculiar Genius’: The ‘Intentional Communities’ of Little Gidding
10. Evangelical Monasticism: A Not-So-Strange Sympathy
11. Choosing to be Beholden
Two Poems
Afterword: The Vowed Life
A Note on the Littlemore Group and Its Conferences

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