This is a revised and up-to-date edition of an important and now even more topical work. Professor Torrance presents an ecumenical understanding of the Church and its ministry that cuts across divisions be tween Catholic and Evangelical, Anglican and Reformed, and includes the ministry of both men and women. He expounds the essential nature of this Chruch, and the essential nature of the ordained priesthood within the corporate or royal priest- hood of the Church. Especially relevant to the current debates concerning the ordination of women.
