"The life and self-offering of Christ perfectly express what it is to serve God and man. All Christian ministry ... flows and takes its source from this source and model" [Quote p30]

"Christ is unique : he is our one High Priest.  The priesthood of the church and the priesthood of the ministry are derived from the priesthood of Christ." [Quote p97]

"Moreover widespread dissatisfaction with identifying 'ministry' with 'ordained ministry' has pushed Anglicanism into statements which define ordained ministry not so much in terms of the possession of special powers cultic or otherwise but in terms of the particular functions exercised by the ordained within the ministry of the whole people of God. ... The revised Anglican ordinals generally emphasise that the existence and exercise of ordained ministry cannot be divorced from the corporate ministry of the community. ... Contemporary Anglicans are unlikely to attempt historical validations of orders and are much more likely to favour instead arguments that are drawn from the character and needs of the Christian community.
The effect of recent work on the the theology of ministry has thus been to make traditional demarcations more difficult to sustain. ..." [Quote p 294]

"... the relation of contemporary accounts of the theology of both priesthood and Eucharist to the [Reformation] Anglican formularies stands in need of clarification. ... the polemical needs served by the Reformation formularies do not necessarily still exist or exist in the same forms ... it is not immediatley obvious how the Book of Common Prayer and the Articles offer resources for clarifying the task of ordained ministry in contexts which their compilers could not have imagined.  On the other hand it needs to be asked what Anglicanism would deprive itself of if its formularies were to be treated as simply part of the developing tradition with little normative or critical role."  [Quote p 295]

"The Lord himself according to Luke sent both the twelve and the seventy (Luke 9:1-3 and 10:1-12) and with differing commisions thus laying the basis for the later distinction of bishops and presbyters; and the office conceded by the Apostle to Timothy and Titus clearly sets them apart from ordinary elders. This evidence moreover was confirmed by the universal practice of the primitive Church.  Hence Bishop Carleton of Chichester could object strenuously at the Synod of Dort to the introduction into thew Belgic Confession of 'a strange conceit of the parity of ministers'." [Quote p 298]

"A corporate socially engaged ecclesiology is not always welcomed. Several Anglican authors acknowledge that clergy and laity are often threatened by the image or the reality of a socially engaged Church. One manifestation ... is clericalism. Clericalism may be seen as misplaced resistance to secularism a process of withdrawal from society into a narrowly defined and often exclusively parochial context. Clericalism is also a progenitor of mutually disbling relationships formed of devaluation of laity and exaggeration of clerical status." [Quote p 252]

"Clericalism is at bottom a confusion between the status of individuals and a theological understanding of their calling. It has been historically formed and embedded in social life." [Quote p 3]