Bishops discuss Covenant: Live tweeting shut down over confidentiality issues
Bishops discuss Covenant: Live tweeting shut down over confidentiality issues
Big question is: who cares?
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
March 30, 2011
That we all may be one...or two, or three. This seems to be the uncertain conclusion of the HOB reflections on unity via the Anglican Covenant after they met this week in Atlanta.
The discussion got so controversial that bishops who were tweeting the event were told to shutdown so deliberations and controversies could be done in privacy. Liberal bloggers went ballistic accusing the Presiding Bishop and the HOB of a lack of transparency.
Neil Alexander, Bishop of Atlanta and former seminary professor, delivered a paper on Anglican/Episcopal ecclesiology and raised the question as to whether this proposed Covenant would substantially alter Anglican ecclesiology, specifically by inaugurating - for the first time - a more centralized authority than we have ever seen before.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Big question is: who cares?
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
March 30, 2011
The discussion got so controversial that bishops who were tweeting the event were told to shutdown so deliberations and controversies could be done in privacy. Liberal bloggers went ballistic accusing the Presiding Bishop and the HOB of a lack of transparency.
Neil Alexander, Bishop of Atlanta and former seminary professor, delivered a paper on Anglican/Episcopal ecclesiology and raised the question as to whether this proposed Covenant would substantially alter Anglican ecclesiology, specifically by inaugurating - for the first time - a more centralized authority than we have ever seen before.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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