Archive for May, 2007
Written by: Rev. Professor Christopher Seitz
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Some Anglicans, especially critics of the authority of the Primates Meeting as an Instrument of Unity/Communion, have tended to see the four Instruments of Communion as competitors. There is no evidence that this view is held by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is himself an Instrument, and who presides at the Lambeth Conference, the Primates Meeting and the Anglican Consultative Council. Clearly he views the Instruments as mutually encouraging, even as they have a specific and discrete identity and remit.
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May 23 2007 | Articles
Written by: Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
In the midst of an increasingly exhausting and exhausted ecclesial struggle, we are now once again hearing the plea, “Why can’t we just get along?”. It is a question many have long raised, but its renewed urgings, from leaders within TEC or recently from e.g. South Africa, have about them the resonance now of anxious desperation. We are watching relations slip from our grasp, relations that were once dear, and once fruitful, and that, in the face of the tremendous human needs of the world’s confused peoples, seem more precious than ever. Is there no way to go back to the days before Anglicans fought so bitterly with one another?
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May 23 2007 | Articles
Written by: Rev. Professor Christopher Seitz
Friday, May 11th, 2007
From various sources and from various leaders of groups within the Anglican Communion we are beginning to see the lines of demarcation and advocacy more clearly. It would be useful to set these out and consider them as we face into a very difficult season, waiting and praying for a way forward for Anglican Christianity that is pleasing to God as 30 September 2007 approaches.
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May 11 2007 | Articles
Written by: Rev. Professor Christopher Seitz
Friday, May 11th, 2007
The Anglican Communion Institute, Inc., Windsor Bishops, Colleagues and Friends are hosting and participating in this important event together with Bishops from the Church of England and fellow workers throughout the Communion.
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May 11 2007 | Articles
Written by: Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
One of the casualties of the current Anglican Communion struggle is our responsible grappling with the challenge of Christian communion as a church. It might seem that, with the Anglican Communion’s own survival at stake, there would be a robust examination taking place of what it means to live “in Christian communion” and why it is important. Yet, despite strong encouragement from numerous sources like the Windsor Report, the topic has almost disappeared from serious engagement. Indeed, from a practical standpoint, parties in the Communion are pressing their commitments in a way analogous to political groups and their external allies within a civil war: discussion and “agreement” has value only if one can gain a place of advantage from which later to destroy the opposition. While the notion – and reality – of Christian communion is one constituted by common standards and commitments and not simply compromise, the manner in which these standards and commitments embody themselves differs greatly from the (often antagonistically) competitive character of present ecclesial confrontations. It is just this difference that few seem willing to engage.
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May 06 2007 | Articles