Written by: Rev. Canon Benjamin B. Twinamaani
Friday, November 30th, 2007
© 2007 The Rev. Canon Benjamin Twinamaani
Now that the much anticipated ‘final’ meeting of the Episcopal Church House of Bishops in New Orleans has come and passed, and that the final resolutions from that meeting have been received with disappointment by many in the Anglican Communion, it is time to say this piece.
“Your Grace, this is not the best of situations for a church family to be in, but since our American brothers and sisters love freedom so much, as it is part of their heritage that both defines them and by which they define themselves, they will always do exactly what they want to do when and how they want to do it, and this is how they live out the Gospel. This sense of freedom is both their blessing and sometimes their bane, and this is the backdrop against which the rest of us who live out the Gospel from other parts of the Anglican Communion, particularly from the Global South, should understand their choices and actions in such situations.”
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November 30 2007 | Articles
Written by: Rev. Professor Christopher Seitz
Monday, November 12th, 2007
7 November Address at Wycliffe College, Toronto
In his lectures delivered at Wycliffe College last month, Ephraim Radner has given an historical account of conciliarism and has described how Anglicanism developed over time a set of Instruments intending to maintain unity of faith in the light of missionary expansion and the emergence of nations in the New World (among other things). This did not happen from ‘the top down’ or by an anticipatory prophetic template. The relationship between the Instruments, and their relative weighting, interplay, etc, is due to a slow process of interrelationship and maturation, and flows from the fact that mission and growth is in God’s hands: this requires constant prayer and reflection in the area of accountability and mutual forbearance, provision for which cannot be given beforehand by ecclesial fiat or one-size-fits-all polity design. This also prevents one from simply historisicing the Instruments, on the one hand (the first is more important than the last), or seeing them as matters of preference or choice-competitors for our politicking-on the other. Or, it should do.
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November 12 2007 | Articles