Williams, Rowan2019-09-252019-09-252016-11-2819980968-2406http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/160065"I think my Uncle Sidney was responsible for the most significant step forward in my ecumenical education. A devoted member of Crwys Road chapel (as it then was), in Cardiff, he liked to remind me of my roots in the Hen Gorlf,1 and in the whole world of Welsh Protestantism; roots which a rather stiffly and self consciously Anglican teenager wasn't always too happy to remember. My family had become Anglicans when I was about eleven - mostly because of a move to a new area where the parish church seemed a lot livelier than the local chapels; and I'd begun to discover not only the heritage of Anglicanism, but, thanks to one or two enthusiastic curates and a well-supplied school library, something about Eastern Orthodoxy (destined to be a lasting enthusiasm) and something about the great monastic and contemplative tradition of the Catholic Church. My loyalties were about as far as could be from the world of Reformed Christianity. lnsofaras I thought about the unity of the churches, it was very much in term of the catholic and sacramental traditions as represented in the kind of world I was exploring in my reading, and in studying history and English at school"engWith permission of the license/copyright holderecumenical educationProtestantismAnglicanismCatholic ChurchReligious ethicsCommunity ethicsChristian denominationsPractical theology and theological educationMinisterial and pastoral trainingArticle