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Publication Date: 19 Feb 2009
Series: SPCK Classics
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
Page Count: 128
Author: Michael Ramsey
ISBN-13: 9780281061167, 9780281082315

The Christian Priest Today

By Michael Ramsey
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Summary of The Christian Priest Today

'Michael Ramsay's profound simplicity leaps off the page . . . The Christian Priest Today can be read with great and lasting benefit by anyone interested in this strange and magnificent vocation.' John Pritchard, author of The Life and Work of a Priest

Of all Michael Ramsey's many books, The Christian Priest Today is perhaps the best loved and most enduring. The main part of the volume 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. Later chapters reflect on the ministry of the laity, the theology of priesthood and the roles of bishop and presbyter in the context of the practical meaning of divine vocation.

About the Author of The Christian Priest Today

Michael Ramsey was the one hundredth Archbishop of Canterbury, and held office from 1961 to 1974. He died in 1988.
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Michael Ramsay’s profound simplicity leaps off the page . . . The Christian Priest Today can be read with great and lasting benefit by anyone interested in this strange and magnificent vocation.

- John Pritchard, author of The Life and Work of a Priest

[Michael Ramsay] was a man of his age; but it is astonishing how fresh and vigorous his writing remains.

- Anglican Theological Review

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