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Justin Welby, The Power of Reconciliation

Justin Welby, The Power of Reconciliation 1162843 ATR0010.1177/00033286231162843Anglican Theological ReviewBook Review research-article2023 Book Review Anglican Theological Review 1 –2 The Power of Reconciliation by © The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions Justin Welby https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231162843 DOI: 10.1177/00033286231162843 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr The Power of Reconciliation. By Justin Welby. London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2022. viii + 296 pp. $28.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-1-399-40297-2. The most important thing to recognize about this book, the author’s ecclesiastical role notwithstanding, is that it is not about reconciliation as normally understood in a church context, sacramental or otherwise. The sort of reconciliation Welby addresses, as he reminds the reader in his concluding chapter, “is the transformation of destructive con- flict into disagreeing well . . . It may be a state of well-contained hostility” (p. 265). So the overall thrust is toward finding an uneasy peace rather than coming to a single mind about divisive issues; it is about an armistice, a reconciliation to a dispute rather than between disputants when neither point of view can objectively be deemed wrong, living in the tension of what some call “pluriform truth.” Reconciliation is “a serious solution to destructive conflict when all else has failed and victory is impossible for all involved” (p. 16), That being said, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Justin Welby, The Power of Reconciliation

Haller, Tobias Stanislas
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 105 (2): 2 – May 1, 2023
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1162843 ATR0010.1177/00033286231162843Anglican Theological ReviewBook Review research-article2023 Book Review Anglican Theological Review 1 –2 The Power of Reconciliation by © The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions Justin Welby https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231162843 DOI: 10.1177/00033286231162843 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr The Power of Reconciliation. By Justin Welby. London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2022. viii + 296 pp. $28.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-1-399-40297-2. The most important thing to recognize about this book, the author’s ecclesiastical role notwithstanding, is that it is not about reconciliation as normally understood in a church context, sacramental or otherwise. The sort of reconciliation Welby addresses, as he reminds the reader in his concluding chapter, “is the transformation of destructive con- flict into disagreeing well . . . It may be a state of well-contained hostility” (p. 265). So the overall thrust is toward finding an uneasy peace rather than coming to a single mind about divisive issues; it is about an armistice, a reconciliation to a dispute rather than between disputants when neither point of view can objectively be deemed wrong, living in the tension of what some call “pluriform truth.” Reconciliation is “a serious solution to destructive conflict when all else has failed and victory is impossible for all involved” (p. 16), That being said,

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Published: May 1, 2023

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