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Preface to the Second Edition

Since we wrote this book the Church of England has continued to develop its understanding and expression of the ministry of all baptized people. There is a renewed emphasis on mission, and in the creative response that is necessary if the Church is to proclaim the gospel afresh in every generation. The Church of England has also approved a new Ordinal, only the third in the 450 years since the Reformation shaped the emerging fresh expressions of the Church in England. We have, therefore, taken the opportunity presented by these developments to add a further chapter to this book in which we consider some of the implications for those who are called to priestly ministry within the Church in the twenty-first century, as well as to update some sections of the original chapters.

We are greatly encouraged by the response to the book since its publication, and offer this second edition in the hope that it will continue to be of help and support to people called to be priests in God’s Church.

Rosalind Brown

Christopher Cocksworth

Feast of the Annunciation 2006