Church Matters

One of the loveliest things about this creative and courageous collection is the opportunity it gives us to see a formidable intellect and a human personality evolving over a 25-year period. - Hugh Mackay AO

Cowdell writes with the authority of ‘a critical friend’, who for more than twenty-five years as a scholar-priest has wrestled with the church as experienced by many postmodern Australians, provoking it to become more visibly what it actually is: an instrument of God’s just and inclusive reign. - The Rt Revd Dr Richard Treloar, Bishop of Gippsland

Scott Cowdell’s aim is ‘to keep the Church and the Eucharist at the heart of Christian life and imagination’. He does this as a thoroughly well educated, urbane Anglican, open to the good influence of other faith traditions and ever attentive to the many fine fruits of secularisation in contemporary Australia. … He’s real and he is good company on the page. - Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO, Newman College, The University of Melbourne

Offers a vision of the church … centred not on individualism but on the living presence of the Spirit in the eucharistic community, leading it more deeply and authentically into worship and mission. - The Revd Canon Professor Dorothy A. Lee, Trinity College Theological School. University of Divinity, Melbourne

Scott Cowdell is Adjunct Research Professor in Theology at Charles Sturt University, Canberra, and Canon Theologian of the Canberra-Goulburn Anglican Diocese.