Why the Anglican Communion will never experience formal Schism
Why the Anglican Communion will never experience formal Schism
COMMENTARY
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
August 21, 2012
It should be apparent by now that the Anglican Communion, torn as it is by "heresies distressed", will not experience a full-blown schism. It is not in the cards. Perhaps it never was.
Hysterical religion writers for secular newspapers ran headlines for years on the imminent demise of the Anglican Communion. It never happened and probably never will. (For the record, there is no such thing as the Anglican Church. There is the communion of Anglican churches that forms the Worldwide Anglican Communion.)
A no show by 230 bishops, mostly from the Global South, at the most recent Lambeth conference in Canterbury and the absence of a dozen Primates in Dublin does not a schism make.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
COMMENTARY
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
August 21, 2012
It should be apparent by now that the Anglican Communion, torn as it is by "heresies distressed", will not experience a full-blown schism. It is not in the cards. Perhaps it never was.Hysterical religion writers for secular newspapers ran headlines for years on the imminent demise of the Anglican Communion. It never happened and probably never will. (For the record, there is no such thing as the Anglican Church. There is the communion of Anglican churches that forms the Worldwide Anglican Communion.)
A no show by 230 bishops, mostly from the Global South, at the most recent Lambeth conference in Canterbury and the absence of a dozen Primates in Dublin does not a schism make.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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