Thursday, July 29, 2010

Contrasting Futures for the Ang. Comm.: A Transformed ACC and the Ang. Covenant

Contrasting Futures for the Anglican Communion: A Transformed ACC and the Anglican Covenant

Written by: The Anglican Communion Institute, Inc.
July 28th, 2010

The Reverend Canon Professor Christopher Seitz
The Reverend Dr. Philip Turner
The Reverend Dr. Ephraim Radner
Mark McCall, Esq.
Michael Watson, Esq.

The crises in the Anglican Communion in recent years have revealed two distinct problems confronting the Communion, one theological and one structural. The two halves of faith and order. The theological problem is whether the Communion has theological coherence on major questions of faith and practice. Slowly over the last decade and a half an affirmative answer to this question has been evolving. In particular, on the presenting crisis of human sexuality the Communion does have a common mind that has been expressed repeatedly by all four Instruments. The extent to which this has happened is reflected in the report of the Joint Standing Committee in late 2007 after the meeting of TEC's House of Bishops in New Orleans:

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