ANGLICAN CONCILIARISM: A BRIGHT HOPE EXTINGUISHED
ANGLICAN CONCILIARISM: A BRIGHT HOPE EXTINGUISHED
By The Rev. Ted Lewis
Special to Virtueonline
www.virtueonline.org
March 27, 2011
The Anglican Communion has had its conciliar movement, as did the medieval church. The medieval movement offered perhaps the best hope of averting the division brought about by the Reformation; the Anglican one offered probably the best hope of keeping the Communion intact. It was constituted by the Communion's three Instruments of Unity, over against Canterbury: the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Consultative Council, and above all the Primates' Meeting.
Although its roots went back many years, in the wake of The Episcopal Church's 2003 election of active homosexual Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire it took on special significance. Following the Primates' Meeting in Dublin at the end of January 2011, however, it can be regarded as suppressed. Now only Canterbury speaks out.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By The Rev. Ted Lewis
Special to Virtueonline
www.virtueonline.org
March 27, 2011
The Anglican Communion has had its conciliar movement, as did the medieval church. The medieval movement offered perhaps the best hope of averting the division brought about by the Reformation; the Anglican one offered probably the best hope of keeping the Communion intact. It was constituted by the Communion's three Instruments of Unity, over against Canterbury: the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Consultative Council, and above all the Primates' Meeting.
Although its roots went back many years, in the wake of The Episcopal Church's 2003 election of active homosexual Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire it took on special significance. Following the Primates' Meeting in Dublin at the end of January 2011, however, it can be regarded as suppressed. Now only Canterbury speaks out.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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