The Archbishop of Canterbury's Shadow Gospel
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Shadow Gospel
By Theodore L. Lewis
http://tinyurl.com/4ewjhms
February 7, 2011
This review is from: Shadow Gospel: Rowan Williams and the Anglican Communion Crisis (Paperback)
This book is a must read for any concerned about the future of the Anglican Communion, that world-wide grouping of churches under the auspices of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It has implications for other churches as well.
There are grounds for concern about the Communion, certainly. Statistics show declining attendance and serious financial difficulties for The Episcopal Church, its largest component in the United States, and similar problems for its components in England, where it originated, and in other countries of the west. And it has become riven by a sharp division, nominally over homosexuality but fundamentally over biblical authority, to the point of threatening its dissolution. Yet the Communion's beginnings back in the 16th century showed much promise. It undertook to combine key elements of the Reformation, notably its focus on Scripture, with much of the heritage of the pre-Reformation church, as in its governance by bishops. Moreover, its member churches in the so-called Global South, in Asia, Latin America, and especially Africa, in recent decades have experienced explosive growth. Thus the question arises of why it should have come to its present crisis.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Theodore L. Lewis
http://tinyurl.com/4ewjhms
February 7, 2011
This review is from: Shadow Gospel: Rowan Williams and the Anglican Communion Crisis (Paperback)
This book is a must read for any concerned about the future of the Anglican Communion, that world-wide grouping of churches under the auspices of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It has implications for other churches as well.
There are grounds for concern about the Communion, certainly. Statistics show declining attendance and serious financial difficulties for The Episcopal Church, its largest component in the United States, and similar problems for its components in England, where it originated, and in other countries of the west. And it has become riven by a sharp division, nominally over homosexuality but fundamentally over biblical authority, to the point of threatening its dissolution. Yet the Communion's beginnings back in the 16th century showed much promise. It undertook to combine key elements of the Reformation, notably its focus on Scripture, with much of the heritage of the pre-Reformation church, as in its governance by bishops. Moreover, its member churches in the so-called Global South, in Asia, Latin America, and especially Africa, in recent decades have experienced explosive growth. Thus the question arises of why it should have come to its present crisis.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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