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Episcopal Bishop Jefferts Schori Rejects Anglican Covenant as "cheap grace"
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
July 5, 2010
The US Presiding Bishop told a group of New Zealand Anglicans that a Covenant designed to draw the Anglican Communion together is nothing more than a type of "cheap grace" an "enlightenment response to postmodern" era disagreement. It is a legal move to avoid the harder "work of the heart", of building relationships in the face of diversity, she said.
It will be interesting to see what Archbishop Rowan Williams has to say about Jefferts Schori's attitude towards the Covenant that he and the Anglican Consultative Council have worked so assiduously and hard on, to try and achieve unity in the Anglican Communion.
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News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
July 5, 2010
The US Presiding Bishop told a group of New Zealand Anglicans that a Covenant designed to draw the Anglican Communion together is nothing more than a type of "cheap grace" an "enlightenment response to postmodern" era disagreement. It is a legal move to avoid the harder "work of the heart", of building relationships in the face of diversity, she said.It will be interesting to see what Archbishop Rowan Williams has to say about Jefferts Schori's attitude towards the Covenant that he and the Anglican Consultative Council have worked so assiduously and hard on, to try and achieve unity in the Anglican Communion.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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