The Calling of a Cuckoo Not Quite an Autobiography

by Jenkins, David

• ISBN13: 9780826470997
• ISBN10: 0826470998
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Now in retirement, Jenkins attempts to explain the man behind the controversy.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction: Is it a mistake to take God for granted?	xi
1 Belief in God and what it is to be human	1	(12)
2 'God the disturber'	13	(10)
3 TV and the beginning of notoriety	23	(13)
4 I discover what is not expected of a Bishop	36	(15)
5 The fault-line becomes an abyss	51	(11)
6 My consecration	62	(7)
7 'Ye have not passed this way heretofore'	69	(12)
8 The lightning: my notoriety goes worldwide	81	(12)
9 The implications of being carved in stone	93	(14)
10 My notorious enthronement sermon	107	(15)
11 Bishops and politics	122	(16)
12 Political dismissal and ecclesiastical cul-de-sac	138	(7)
13 The conflict deepens	145	(12)
14 The sevenfold cord of faith	157	(12)
15 Going on with God	169	(8)
Appendix 1 The nature of Christian belief	177	(8)
Appendix 2 The ordination of women to the priesthood	185	(4)
Index	189