The Queen's Speech - Charles Raven
The Queen's Speech
By Charles Raven
http://www.anglicanspread.org/
February 18, 2011
Earlier this week, I was listening to a bishop speaking about the sheer incomprehension of many Global South colleagues as they see the Church of England carrying on as if it were pretty much business as usual while Britain's Christian culture collapses and the wider Anglican Communion is in the throes of a fundamental realignment. Now that the Dublin Primates' meeting has demonstrated that the Archbishop of Canterbury has lost the essential requirement of his office - the ability to gather the Communion - that perplexity can only increase. So why should this be?
I want to suggest that the answer to that question lies at least in part with a certain capacity for self-deception which allows the appearance of normality to be sustained while all the time the profoundly abnormal is gaining ground.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Charles Raven
http://www.anglicanspread.org/
February 18, 2011
Earlier this week, I was listening to a bishop speaking about the sheer incomprehension of many Global South colleagues as they see the Church of England carrying on as if it were pretty much business as usual while Britain's Christian culture collapses and the wider Anglican Communion is in the throes of a fundamental realignment. Now that the Dublin Primates' meeting has demonstrated that the Archbishop of Canterbury has lost the essential requirement of his office - the ability to gather the Communion - that perplexity can only increase. So why should this be?
I want to suggest that the answer to that question lies at least in part with a certain capacity for self-deception which allows the appearance of normality to be sustained while all the time the profoundly abnormal is gaining ground.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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