The Anglican Evangelical Crisis: a radical agenda for a Bible-based church
Edited by Melvin Tinker
Christian Focus Publications. 222 pages. £7.99
ISBN 1 85792 183 6
'In the life of churches . . . there come moments of truth and decision when issues of principle that have long been ducked have to be faced, fences that have long been sat on have to be abandoned, and choices that have long been postponed have at last to be made.'
Few can be unmoved by such words, from such a man as Dr. J.I. Packer. The snag is that he wrote them in 1968, introducing a controversy which now seems almost trivial compared with the crisis set out in these essays. In his piece on Anglican comprehensiveness in the present volume, Dr. Packer does not quite repeat himself; crying 'Wolf!' for 30 years induces hoarseness in the shouters as well as incredulity in the audience.
