Thursday, December 06, 2012


Thoughts on Archbishop Rowan Williams Advent Letter - Phil Ashey

Thoughts on Archbishop Rowan Williams Advent Letter

BY PHIL ASHEY
AAC International Update
http://www.americananglican.org/thoughts-on-williams-advent-letter
December 4, 2012

I wish to comment on the Archbishop of Canterbury's Advent Letter to the Primates of the Anglican Communion, published December 2 on the Anglican Communion news site. As the spiritual head of the Anglican Communion, addressing his fellow Primates for perhaps the last time on the first Sunday of Advent-the beginning of a new church year-it is significant that the Most Rev. Rowan Williams makes the following statement:

"Despite many questions about how our decisions about doctrine and mutual responsibility are made in the Communion, and some challenges to the various 'Instruments of Communion', the truth is that our Communion has never been the sort of Church that looks for one central authority..."

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