A New Offering from
Father Huffstetler!
Pilgrimage Towards Healing and Reconciliation:
A Windsor Report Study Guide.
published by AuthorHouse, January 2007
About the Book
The Windsor Report 2004, drafted by The Lambeth Commission on Communion at the request of Dr. Rowan Williams, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury is a defining theological document for the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Pilgrimage Towards Healing and Reconciliation: A Windsor Report Study Guide leads readers through the Report, offering background information and commentary on its key passages. The sole aim of the book is to help make the Report’s contents accessible and understandable to its readers throughout the Anglican Communion. Study questions at the end of each chapter are ideal for individuals, as well as parish and diocesan study groups. The book includes a Foreword by The Rt. Rev. Charles G. vonRosenberg, Bishop of East Tennessee.
About the Author
The Rev. Dr. Joel W. Huffstetler is Rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland, TN. Previously he served as Deacon-in-Charge, then Rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Canton, NC, and as Assistant to the Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chattanooga, TN.
Rev. Huffstetler is a summa cum laude graduate of Elon College, and The School of Theology of The University of the South at Sewanee, where he was awarded his Master of Divinity degree in 1990, and Doctor of Ministry degree in 2006. He has also studied at The Candler School of Theology, Emory University. His previous publications include Finding our Unity in the Scriptures: Reconciliation in the Anglican Communion, AuthorHouse ©2005, as well as numerous articles and reviews.
Also by The Rev. Dr. Joel W. Huffstetler
Finding Our Unity in the Scriptures: Reconciliation in the Anglican Communion
published by AuthorHouse, September 2005
About the Book
This book grew out of a Bible Conference at Kanuga Conference Center in October, 2004, led by Dr. George L. Carey, the 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury. Archbishop Carey’s theme was the life and ministry of St. Paul, with a focus on the Letter to the Ephesians. I was privileged to serve as a workshop leader and preacher during the conference, and I chose as the theme of my workshop to study St. Paul and reconciliation, using Ephesians as our primary text. The main thrust of the workshop was to study selected passages from Ephesians in detail, and to look to St. Paul’s writings for guidance regarding reconciliation in the Body of Christ.
We live in a time when there is such a pressing need in the Church for reconciliation, a rekindling of a spirit of love and mutual respect rather than the judgment and suspicion which all too often characterize relations among Christians who find themselves in disagreement with one another regarding the divisive issues of our time.
This book advocates a renewed realization that in Jesus Christ what unites us as Christians is far greater than what divides us. These essays on selected passages from Ephesians and the concluding essay, The Way Forward, are offered in the cause of reconciliation. They are suitable for study by individuals as well as parish and diocesan study groups seeking reconciliation in the Church. Study questions are presented at the end of each chapter to foster reflection and discussion.
“I welcome this book as an offering to us all. It presents one means for discovering a receptive stance to God’s will for us, even in the midst of the harsh rhetoric and self-justifying proclamations of our day. I am grateful to Joel Huffstetler for his contribution to the forming of an attitude of the heart committed to reconciliation.”
from the afterword by The Rt. Rev. Charles G. vonRosenberg, Bishop of East Tennesse.
