The Doctrine Committee’s new book Made in the Image of God: Being Human in the Christian Tradition has just been published by Sacristy Press.

The online launch, including an introduction from the Primus, took place on 28 May and it can be watched here.

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“This new book of twelve essays from the Doctrine Committee of the Scottish Episcopal Church examines what it means to be human in our present world,” say editors Michael Fuller and David Jasper.

“As we emerge from the global covid-19 pandemic we quickly realise that we can never simply return to normal – and nor, perhaps, should we be seeking to do so. For we live at a time when we face ultimate questions as to our very survival and the survival of life on our planet, and it is in this context that we seek to recover the sense of our humanity as it has been created and redeemed by God.

“All our essays are written by practising Christians, and in drawing these authors together for this project we felt it to be of the utmost importance that we adopt an interdisciplinary approach, bringing to bear the specialist expertise of our various contributors.

“We hope that the rich variety of topics which we address, and the voices exploring those topics, will help readers to think a little more carefully ‘outside the box’, and that they will provide a challenge and an invitation to explore territory that may be unfamiliar.”

The book’s contributors includes the editors and also Nicholas Taylor, John Reuben Davies, Trevor Hart, Robert Gillies, John McLuckie, Harriet Harris, Delyth M. Reid, Margaret B. Adam, Eric Stoddart, and Alison Jasper.

The book has been commended by The Most Rev Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, who said: “The Doctrine Committee of the Scottish Episcopal Church is to be commended for this volume. The authors face up to change and evolution in western understandings of Homo sapiens viewing human beings from perspectives both traditional and contemporary, theological and secular. That each chapter is accompanied by further reading and questions makes it additionally rich both for individuals and reading groups alike.”

Copies are available for £24.99 from Sacristy Press. To order, click here.