The Unhappy Fate of Optional Evangelicalism
The Unhappy Fate of Optional Evangelicalism
How Fulcrum strengthens the case for the Anglican Mission in England
By Charles Raven
http://anglicanspread.org/
July 26, 2011
Fulcrum has a new 'chair', the Revd Stephen Kuhrt, and in last week's Church of England Newspaper, he took the opportunity to review Fulcrum's history and restate its vision in his article 'Remaining at the Centre of the Church of England'. To readers outside England not familiar with its tribes, I should explain that Fulcrum is a grouping of self styled 'open' evangelicals which operates under the slogan of 'renewing the evangelical centre'.
Unfortunately, Fulcrum is open towards just about anyone except those fellow evangelicals who are aligned with Anglican Mainstream, the GAFCON movement and of course the newly formed Anglican Mission in England (AMiE). Kuhrt ascribes Fulcrum's origins to the 'reactionary' nature of the 2003 National Evangelical Anglican Congress (NEAC), but fails to mention that it met against the backdrop of the attempted consecration of gay champion Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading and the actual consecration of the actively homosexual Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire earlier in the year. It has become clear that this group is really energized by what it is against and that opposition not infrequently takes on a visceral quality, such as Bishop Tom Wright's bizarre attack on the GAFCON leadership in 2008 as false teachers, akin to the 'super-apostles' of 2 Corinthians 11:5.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
How Fulcrum strengthens the case for the Anglican Mission in England
By Charles Raven
http://anglicanspread.org/
July 26, 2011
Fulcrum has a new 'chair', the Revd Stephen Kuhrt, and in last week's Church of England Newspaper, he took the opportunity to review Fulcrum's history and restate its vision in his article 'Remaining at the Centre of the Church of England'. To readers outside England not familiar with its tribes, I should explain that Fulcrum is a grouping of self styled 'open' evangelicals which operates under the slogan of 'renewing the evangelical centre'.
Unfortunately, Fulcrum is open towards just about anyone except those fellow evangelicals who are aligned with Anglican Mainstream, the GAFCON movement and of course the newly formed Anglican Mission in England (AMiE). Kuhrt ascribes Fulcrum's origins to the 'reactionary' nature of the 2003 National Evangelical Anglican Congress (NEAC), but fails to mention that it met against the backdrop of the attempted consecration of gay champion Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading and the actual consecration of the actively homosexual Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire earlier in the year. It has become clear that this group is really energized by what it is against and that opposition not infrequently takes on a visceral quality, such as Bishop Tom Wright's bizarre attack on the GAFCON leadership in 2008 as false teachers, akin to the 'super-apostles' of 2 Corinthians 11:5.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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