"The theological task, therefore, is to integrate the present account of human agency within a comprehensive account of Christian belief and practice. It is false to say that progressive voices have not attempted to do just this. It would also be false to say that more traditional voices have not sought to bring the changes in moral practice now common in the West under the scrutiny of such an account. The problem is that progressives have made the connection by reducing Christian belief to rather vacuous account of divine and human love; and traditionalists have, as it were, “majored” in dogmatic assertions while remaining unaware of the moral gains that have come with our present map of the self."
— A remarkable article by Rev. Dr. Philip Turner, “The Achilles Heel of Anglicanism (in North America and the United Kingdom).” It is so much better than it sounds. In fact, it is as good as anything I’ve read at proposing a programmatic agenda for the task of ecclesial theology in the 21st century.
