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52 Prof. Mark D. Chapman Perspectief 1 Some of this material comes frommy article, ‘Does the Church of England have a Theology of General Synod?’ in Journal of Anglican Studies 11 (2013), pp. 15-31. 2 Letter from Hooper to Bullinger, 5 February 1550, in Hastings Robinson (ed.), Original letters relative to the English Reformation: written during the reigns of King Henry VIII., King Edward VI., and Queen Mary: chiefly from the archives of Zurich (Cambridge: University Press for the Parker Society, 2 vols, 1846-1847), vol. 1, p. 76. 3 See Eric Kemp, Counsel and Consent: Aspects of the Government of the Church as exemplified in the history of the English Provincial Synods (London: SPCK, 1961), esp. pp. 63-142. 4 Peter Hinchliff, ‘Laymen in Synod: An Aspect of the Beginnings of Synodical Government in South Africa’, in G. J. Cuming and Derek Baker (eds), Studies in Church History, Volume 7: Councils and Assemblies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971), pp. 321-7, here p. 327. 5 Kemp, Counsel and Consent , pp. 65-86. 6 Francis Oakley, The Conciliarist Tradition: Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church, 1300-1870 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003); and Paul Valliere, Conciliarism: A History of Decision-Making in the Church (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). 7 See Kemp, esp. pp. 87-112. See also the 1902 Report: The Position of the Laity in the Church being the Joint Committee of the Convocation of Canterbury (1902) (reprint with an introduction by Norman Sykes, Westmin- ster; Church Information Board, 1952). 8 Ephraim Radner, A Brutal Unity: The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012), p. 4. 9 See David Jacobus Bosch, Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1991), e.g. p. 390. 10 This approach is exemplified, for example, by Colin Gunton, The Promise of Trinitarian Theology (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993); The One, The Three and the Many. God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993); Paul S. Fiddes, Participating in God. A Pastoral Doctrine of the Trinity (Lon- don: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2000) and Jürgen Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom of God (London: SCM, 1981). 11 Review Group by the Standing Committee of the General Synod, Synodical Government in the Church of England: A Review (London: Church House Publishing, 1997). 12 The report, Government by Synod (London: Church Information Office, 1966), deliberately avoided theology since it sought to create a General Synod from the Church Assembly without the need for parliamentary leg- islation. 13 Archbishops’ Commission on the Organisation of the Church of England, Working as One Body (London: Church House Publishing, 1995), §1.6. 14 Archbishops' Group on the Episcopate, Episcopal Ministry (London: Church House Publishing, 1990), §19. 15 Working as One Body , §1.10-25. 16 brev . 3.20; c. Don . 9.12; doc. Chr . 3.32; cf. civ. Dei 18.49. The Augustine references are cited according to the schedule in Allan D. Fitzgerald OSA, Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1999), pp. xxxv-il. 17 A Brutal Unity , p. 264.