Church at War: Anglicans and Homosexuality

When Gene Robinson, an openly gay Episcopal priest, was elected bishop of New Hampshire in 2003, his election sparked ongoing debate and potential schism in the Anglican Church, both in America and around the world. Bates, religion correspondent for the Guardian (U.K.), pens a thoughtful guide to the current controversy. Focusing on England and (to a lesser extent) the U.S., Bates casts the current dispute in the context of the church's grappling with social change since the 1960s - the ordination of women, the acknowledgment of high divorce rates-and explores how different Anglicans interpret the Bible and come to divergent conclusions about homosexuality.

Paperback, 333 pages, orig. published 2004, this edition 2005