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Of all the late Michael Ramsey’s many books, The Christian Priest Today is perhaps the best loved and most enduring. In this new edition, the central part remains unaltered and is composed of charges to ordination candidates, with an emphasis on the intellectual and devotional life of the minister in an increasingly self-sufficient world. The first chapter has been rewritten and two new chapters...

concept of priesthood. There was the clericalist trend, which separated the priesthood of the ordained from the priesthood of the Church, which tended to be disregarded; and there was a concentration, somewhat in isolation, upon the priest’s Eucharistic function. We need not here trace the confusions and distortions, among which one episode was the condemnation of Anglican Orders by the Church of Rome, first in the sixteenth century and again in 1896. Today the ecumenical movement involves not only
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