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The Church of England: Some Personal Reflections on Structure and Mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2021

William Nye
William Nye*
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Secretary General of the Archbishops' Council of the Church of England
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I embark on this subject tentatively. With trepidation, because I am neither a missiologist nor an ecclesiologist. Nor did I know, when I agreed to the invitation which Mark Hill put so persuasively over a year ago, what would be happening in the Church in the autumn of 2020. Yet it is in many ways a good time to be having a discussion about mission and structure. As I am sure you know, there is work under way on both these questions within the House of Bishops and beyond. Archbishop Stephen Cottrell is leading some work on a vision and strategy for the Church of England for the 2020s. Bishop Nick Baines is leading a group looking at the governance of the national church institutions, in support of that work.

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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , May 2021 , pp. 191 - 199
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Ecclesiastical Law Society

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Footnotes

1

This text is based on the lecture of the same title given as part of the Ecclesiastical Law Society's London lecture series on 7 October 2020.

References

2 Larkin, P, ‘Church going’, in The Less Deceived (Hessle, East Yorkshire, 1955)Google Scholar.