Our God Has No Favourites - Anne Primates, Jennifer Henderson

This book,” writes Prof. James Dunn in his Foreword, “is a cry from the heart. It is a cry the chuches and the guardians of church tradition need to hear. For it calls us to face squarely the hard fact that several of our most sacred and cherished practices have departed in marked degree from the practices of Jesus himself and his apostles … The blunt charge levelled in this book is that in key areas of church life we have been unfaithful stewards. The lament justifiably focuses on the Eucharist..

This is a cry that will echo in the hearts of all those who experience the pain of Eucharistic separation. It is a call to the churches to be converted rather than to individuals to disregard their denominational allegiances. It is a ‘Liberation theology of the Eucharist’, the authors explain, becuase it is written from the viewpoint of the of the Western churches – the laity, and women in particular. It is also liberative in that it seeks to empower churches and individual Christians to free themselves from historical distortions in their traditions and so to become their true selves in the freedom of the Gospel.