The Significance for Anglican Communion Life - ACI

The long awaited Advent Letter promised by the Archbishop of Canterbury is now in the public arena. It is a remarkable piece of work—one that deserves careful reading and reflection on the part of all. Its rich theological content and wise procedural protocols will place it, along with the Windsor Report and the Communiqué from Dar es Salaam, in the center of all future discussions of the nature and calling of the Anglican Communion. It should be remembered that statements of this nature are not trial balloons or proxies for our voting, up or down, but rather have the character of Anglican instrumental discourse, to be ranged with other such documents as defining the nature of Anglicanism at a critical time. So they must be assessed with the same level of seriousness with which they are constructed and promulgated.

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  1. Excellent ..  thank you

    Posted by  on  12/23  at  06:26 PM

  2. With respect to my former Old Testament professor, Dr. Christopher Seitz, I find the Archbishop’s Advent Letter to be less about defending the Faith than about trying to patch a fractured Anglican Communion. Rowan calls for more conversation and mediation so that TEC leaders will understand their precarious position. This assumes that TEC needs another chance either to repent and make amends for its misdeeds or to provide a cogent biblical support for its innovative mission. The problem is that TEC doesn’t care about the Communion. TEC’s leaders believe they have done nothing wrong since they are trying to “love” everyone. They’ve come to believe their own lies. They don’t need another platform to proclaim their false gospel.  They need spiritual regeneration.

    Posted by Alice C. Linsley  on  12/24  at  11:16 AM

  3. Chuckle ..  I don’t disagree Alice, but how many times was it Jesus said we should forgive?

    Posted by  on  12/24  at  11:45 AM

  4. I must admit great respect for Alice that she studied under Seitz and survived intact. Both he and Raedner are really hard going for me. Not that I dissagree with them, I usually don’t. Its just hard sledding through the verbage.

    I have been an unabashed supporter of +++Rowan and remain so. I do not, for instance, find his writing obscure, compared to the ACI boys for example. He is a genuinely Godly man. It happens he rather dislikes Americans, Kate Schori among them, and has some problem grasping our national need for clarity and speed. He is simply running out of time and his hope for another study group to succeed is probably going to nought. ++Peter Abuja, ++Luke and the rest of the GS apparently are still determined to force a resolution prior to Lambeth. I do not believe +++Rowan will force 2/3 of the world’s Anglicans to boycott his Lambeth thingie over TEC’s apostate behaviour. I hope he will overcome his latent Ameriphobia and get this unpleasantness over.

    Posted by  on  12/24  at  07:48 PM

  5. A bit of hyperbole there, Teddy?

    Two-thirds of the word’s Anglican Bishops WILL BE at Lambeth, 2008 - despite the whiffs of brimstone from the disaffected.

    Those who will miss out will be those who have chosen the path away from the historic inclusivity of our Beloved Communion.

    Wishing doesn’t necessarily make things so!

    Real prayer: that God’s will be done in this and all other matters of dispute in the Church - prayers by the faithful laity, not just clergy and archbishops - still holds the balance of credibility.

    Incidentally, Rowan has no problem with loving most Americans - its just those who want to foster injustice and strife.

    Posted by  on  12/26  at  06:43 AM

  6. Alice:  Great comments...I’m in total agreement with you and need say nothing more. 
    Merry Christmas to all,
    Gerry

    Posted by  on  12/26  at  10:44 AM

  7. Alice, what will you have to talk about now that the ‘Global Anglican Future’ Conference has no future - at least in Jerusalem? That does not augur well for the future of anyone who, like His grace the Archbishop of Nigeria, was staking his future all on that conference.

    However, thank God the Bishop in Jerusalem has put his foot down and will not allow GAFCON to set foot in his diocese. Akinola’s response to this refusal has been somewhat peremptory. He wrote to Bishop Darwani (on hearing of the Bishop’s decision not to allow the conference to meet in Jerusalem): “Be assured that we considered your important arguments carefully as we met in Nairobi. But We came to the unanimous conclusion that we needed to proceed”.

    It seems that Nigeria’s high-handed hubris and authoritarian response to Bishop Darwani’s decision on this matter has caused some real consternation among both pro and anti GAFCON bishops and members of the world-wide Communion.
    I wonder how long his campaign for supremacy in the Anglican Church will be allowed to continue?

    Perhaps, Alice, you’d better find another role model: Jensen, Nazir-Ali, Sugden, Venables, or perhaps Mr.Minns? There are plenty of other contenders being ordained in certain parts of the Church of the Global South. But, is there any real future fror them - not only in Jerusalem in 2008, but at any time, or any place else?

    Posted by  on  01/08  at  05:41 PM
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