This timely book made instructive reading at the midpoint of the meeting of bishops at Lambeth last summer. This book contains a series of 22 essays by evangelical Anglicans from every continent, essays written primarily for the bishops at Lambeth but important for all of us who are Anglican Christians.

The writers present evangelical perspectives on the fiercely contested issues on the Lambeth agenda. The essays are generally of high level of scholarship and are positive in tone, for the most part.

Obviously, the heroic missionary work of Anglican evangelicals, especially in Africa, has produced a rich harvest of able and conservative Christians who are rapidly moving into a new ascendancy in the worldwide Anglican Communion.

This book helped this "liberal catholic" Anglican to better understand the forces that seem to be breaking the "liberal establishment's" hold on power in what used to be the mainline churches. It remains to be seen whether the prescriptions of the emerging evangelical leadership within Anglicanism, as hinted at in this book, will be able to redeem us from heresy and our past sins, including our unilateral decision to ordain women and to force them upon unwilling and unconsulted Anglicans at home and abroad.

(The Rev. Canon) A. Malcolm MacMillan

Bethlehem, Pa.