I would also like to thank Ros Hunt, Janet Batsleer, Jenny Barrett, Alan Green, Sabine Butzlaf, Ken Leech, Trevor Richardson, James Hanvey, Rowan Williams, Alan Mould, Michael Shier, and Arther Peacocke for their assorted assistance; Arthur Partridge of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, for curbing my exuberance and correcting my science; Judith Longman of Mowbray; and Fr Alan Scott and the people of St Mary’s Stoke Newington, with whom I first explored many of the ideas in the book.

Much of the material in this book was worked out in a series of four lectures given in Lent 1992, to the Anglican clergy of the Stepney Episcopal Area of the Diocese of London. Thanks are due to Jim Thompson, then Bishop of Stepney, and to his Archdeacon; and to everyone who attended the lectures.