"I Have Called You Friends: Reflections on Reconciliation in Honor of Frank T. Griswold"

"I Have Called You Friends: Reflections on Reconciliation in Honor of  Frank T. Griswold"; Barbara Braver, editor, 250 pages, hardcover, $24.95.

(ISBN-10: 1-56101-248-3; ISBN-13: 978-1-56101-248-0)

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Throughout his nine-year term as Presiding  Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Frank T. Griswold has taught about reconciliation: conversation, conversion, communion-all grounded in Jesus'  meeting us in all our particularities and isolation and calling us into  the ever greater friendship of the Holy Spirit.

 It seemed natural, then, that a book of essays in honor of the Presiding  Bishop at the end of his term should take reconciliation as its theme.  Each of the contributors-church leaders from all over the globe-focuses in  his or her own way on reconciliation and our participation in what God has  already accomplished through Christ.

 "I Have Called You Friends" is a proper and loving gift to man who has  served as the overseer of the Episcopal Church, and as a teacher and a  friend. But it is more than that. It is an enterprise in theological  reflection on a vital topic for citizens of the 21st century.

 Contributors are: Denise M. Ackermann; Curtis G. Almquist, SSJE; Michael  Battle; William Danaher; Ellen F. Davis; Esther de Waal; Ian T. Douglas;  Brian J. Grieves; John Haughey, SJ; Peter S. Hawkins; Martha Horne;  Cynthia Briggs Kittredge; Peter James Lee; Mark A. McIntosh; Margaret R.  Miles; Esther Mombo; Njongonkulu Ndungane; Luci Shaw; M. Thomas Shaw,  SSJE; Jenny Te Paa; Kathy Tanner; Desmond Tutu; Louis Weil; George L. W.  Werner; Rowan Williams; J. Robert Wright.