Peter Jensen confounding expectations
Posted on September 16, 2008
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“Peter Jensen, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, has an image problem.
His reputation among many secular Australians – those who have heard of him at all – is of a stuffy, hidebound old churchman. Among self-styled progressives, including some from our more liberal churches, his name is synonymous with reactionary religious cant.
These lazy and unfair misconceptions say much more about 21st-century Australia than about Jensen. But for public figures, image is important. I must confess that in 2005 I paid insufficient attention to Jensen’s Boyer Lectures, which have been republished here with ‘minor updates and adaptations’.
The Future of Jesus is not the book I expected it to be.…”
– Roy Williams reviewed Archbishop Peter Jensen’s The Future of Jesus in Saturday’s Australian.
(The book is available from Matthias Media.)
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