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Monday 8th February 2008
As one of his final acts as general secretary of the United Reformed Church, the Revd Dr David Cornick has attempted “to show how the Reformed way of being Christian has received its own gifts from God, and to offer those gifts to fellow pilgrims of other traditions”.
He said “Reformed” and “Spirituality” were not words that sat easily together, and most Reformed people thought spirituality was something that others did; he was attempting to redress that balance.
David Cornick was speaking at the launch (February 6th) of his book “Letting God be God”. It had been long in gestation, he said. When he agreed to write it, he had been an academic, principal of Westminster College in Cambridge. The role of general secretary of the Church had intervened. The book had been shaped by his experiences within the URC but it was not about the URC. It was about the Reformed tradition “the way of being Christian that began in blitzkrieg reformations of the Swiss city states in the 1520s and eventually spread across the world”.
David Cornick moves on in March, to be general secretary of Churches Together in England, cementing the United Reformed Church commitment to ecumenism.
“Letting God be God. The Reformed tradition” is published by Darton Longman and Todd. Price £9.95. It is available from the United Reformed Church bookshop, where it is already a bestseller, or the URC website:
Picture: David Cornick (left) and Brendan Walsh, editorial director of Darton Longman and Todd
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