Peter Leithart and James Wood sit down for a second conversation with Dr. Ephraim Radner.
Ephraim Radner is a theologian, Anglican priest, and one of the most penetrating thinkers on the doctrine of the church today. He is Professor of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College (University of Toronto) and the author of several major works including Brutal Unity, Hope Among the Fragments, The End of the Church, and Mortal Goods.
In this conversation, they take stock of the modern ecumenical movement — its genuine gains, its institutional failures, and the deeper roots of Christian disunity that no dialogue paper or cooperative venture has yet reached. Radner argues that division is not merely a pastoral inconvenience but a form of murder, and that the path toward unity runs not through procedure but through sacrifice. From the collapse of North African Christianity to the Joint Declaration on Justification to receptive ecumenism, Radner offers a searching and characteristically unsentimental assessment of where the church finds itself — and what faithfulness might actually require.
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