Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Truth and Accountability or Dialogue and Listening - Anglican Communion Covenant

Truth and Accountability or Dialogue and Listening - the Anglican Communion Covenant

by Chris Sugden
Evangelicals Now
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/
January 2011

On November 24, the Church of England General Synod voted overwhelmingly to send the text of the Anglican Communion Covenant to the Dioceses for consideration. Coincidentally on the same day seven primates from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, West Africa and the Southern Cone of Latin America representing 40 million Anglicans released a statement that in their view "the covenant was fatally flawed and so support for this initiative is no longer appropriate".

The mood of the synod debate was summed up by Bishop John Saxbee of Lincoln: he said he was in favour of the covenant process as long as it never ends. Dr Philip Giddings, a senior evangelical lay member, who also voted in favour, said he did so reluctantly because its key part was only a quarter of a loaf and badly baked at that.

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