Ian S. Markham & J. Barney Hawkins 
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion [EPUB ebook] 

This uniquely comprehensive reference work provides a global
account of the history, expansion, diversity, and contemporary
issues facing the Anglican Communion, the worldwide body that
includes all followers of the Anglican faith.

* An insightful and wide-ranging treatment of this dynamic global
faith, offering unrivalled coverage of its historical development,
and the religious and ethical questions affecting the church
today

* Explores every aspect of this vibrant religious community
– from analyzing its instruments of Unity, to its central
role in interfaith communication

* Spans the Anglican Communion’s long history through to
21st century debates within the church on such issues as
sexual-orientation of clergy, and the pastoral role of
women

* Features a substantial articles on the Church’s 44
provinces, including a brief history of each

* Brings together a distinguished and international team of
contributors, including some of the world’s leading Anglican
commentators

About the author

The Very Rev Dr Ian S. Markham is Dean, President and
Professor of Theology and Ethics of Virginia Theological Seminary,
USA. He is the author of numerous books including Against
Atheism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), Encountering Religion
(with Tinu Ruparell, Wiley-Blackwell, 2001), Theology of Engagement
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2001), Truth and the Reality of God
(1998), and Plurality and Christian Ethics (1994);and is
editor of The Student’s Companion to the Theologians
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), A World Religions Reader, 3rd
edition (with Christy Lohr, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and
Globalization, Ethics, and Islam (2005).

The Rev Dr J. Barney Hawkins IV is Vice President for
Institutional Advancement, Associate Dean of the Center for
Anglican Communion Studies and Professor of Pastoral Theology at
Virginia Theological Seminary, USA. A specialist on
eighteenth-century Anglicanism in the American colonies, he spent
more than two decades in parish ministry before joining VTS’s
faculty in 2000. He is co-editor of Christ and Culture:
Communion After Lambeth (with Martyn Percy, Mark Chapman, and
Ian Markham, 2010), and co-author of Staying One, Remaining
Open: Education Leaders for a 21st Century Church (with Richard
J. Jones, 2010).

The Very Rev Dr Justyn Terry is Dean and President of
Trinity School for Ministry, USA, where he is Associate Professor
of Systematic Theology. He undertook his undergraduate studies in
physics at Keble College, Oxford, and in theology and ministry at
Cranmer Hall, St. John’s College, Durham, UK. Dr Terry was
ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1996 and served in
ordained ministry in central London for ten years. He received his
Ph D in Systematic Theology from King’s College, London, in
2003 and is the author of The Justifying Judgment of God
(2007).

The Rev. Leslie Nuñez Steffensen is currently
Assistant to the Rector at Grace Episcopal Church in Alexandria,
Virginia. Prior to completing her Master of Divinity, she was
the Administrative Coordinator for the Center for Anglican
Communion Studies at the Virginia Theological Seminary, USA. She
took a BA in international studies at Johns Hopkins University
before becoming Master of Theological Studies at VTS. She
volunteered for missionary duties in Tanzania, where she worked as
Academic Dean of Msalato Theological College in Dodoma, teaching
theology and biblical studies.