SUMMERVILLE, SC: Classical Anglican Jurisdictions Enter New Phase of Cooperation
SUMMERVILLE, SC: Classical Anglican Jurisdictions Enter New Phase of Cooperation
Six Continuing jurisdictions see healing with fresh talks of unity prompted by Global Realignment
By David W. Virtue DD
www.virtueonline.org
April 15, 2013
Not since 1976 when several thousand clergy and laity dissented from The Episcopal Church over the ordination of women and a doctrinally controversial Book of Common Prayer and adopted a theological statement called the Affirmation of St. Louis in response to those actions, has the troubled Fellowship of Concerned Churchmen seen much cooperation.
Now all that is changing.
In 2006, the formation of the Federation of Anglican Provinces or Jurisdictions in North and South America brought together many of the disparate Anglo-Catholic groups. During the process of ratifying the new church's constitution, disputes developed which split its dioceses into two American churches and a separate Canadian church.
Those early fractures in the movement now show signs of healing, aided and abetted by a global Anglican realignment that is seeing orthodox and revisionist provinces at irreconcilable loggerheads.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Six Continuing jurisdictions see healing with fresh talks of unity prompted by Global Realignment
By David W. Virtue DD
www.virtueonline.org
April 15, 2013
Not since 1976 when several thousand clergy and laity dissented from The Episcopal Church over the ordination of women and a doctrinally controversial Book of Common Prayer and adopted a theological statement called the Affirmation of St. Louis in response to those actions, has the troubled Fellowship of Concerned Churchmen seen much cooperation.Now all that is changing.
In 2006, the formation of the Federation of Anglican Provinces or Jurisdictions in North and South America brought together many of the disparate Anglo-Catholic groups. During the process of ratifying the new church's constitution, disputes developed which split its dioceses into two American churches and a separate Canadian church.
Those early fractures in the movement now show signs of healing, aided and abetted by a global Anglican realignment that is seeing orthodox and revisionist provinces at irreconcilable loggerheads.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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