Entries Tagged as “Ecclesiology”

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West Indies adopts the Anglican Covenant
By:  Benjamin Guyer on January 30, 2011
Excerpt:  via Anglican Communion News Service: The Archbishop of the Province of the West Indies has announced that his Province has adopted the Anglican Communion Covenant. It is the third to…   Read full post >>

+Josiah Idowu-Fearon: ‘If you disagree, at least be there’
By:  Benjamin Guyer on January 24, 2011
Excerpt:  Given the Primates' Meeting this week, the following piece from +Josiah Idowu-Fearon, published 31 December, 2010, in the Church Times, is well worth reading: 'The lessons from these [ecumenical] Councils…   Read full post >>

Some Primates to Meet
By:  Fr. Tony Clavier on January 11, 2011
Excerpt:  Shortly the primates of the provinces which constitute the Anglican Communion will meet in Dublin. One should say that some of the primates will meet. Quite a few will stay…   Read full post >>

Synod Sends Covenant to Dioceses
By:  Benjamin Guyer on November 24, 2010
Excerpt:  In a vote that will undoubtedly have profound effects for other Anglican provinces, the Church of England voted on 24 November, 2010, to adopt the Anglican Covenant. The Draft Act…   Read full post >>

In Praise of Rhetoric?  Anti-Covenantal Myths of Puritanism and Anglicanism (Part Two)
By:  Benjamin Guyer on November 21, 2010
Excerpt:  In part one of this essay, we noted the ways that the anti-Covenant lobby misconstrues Puritanism. In what follows, we turn to their abuse of Anglican orthodoxy, particularly the work…   Read full post >>

Conservatives’ covenant concerns: A critique
By:  Andrew Goddard on November 20, 2010
Excerpt:  On reading Truth or Conviction: questions over the Anglican Communion Covenant by Vinay Samuel and Chris Sugden I did not know whether to laugh or to cry. Part of me…   Read full post >>

Reality or Fantasy?  The Anglican Covenant Debate in England
By:  Fr. Tony Clavier on November 20, 2010
Excerpt:  The future of an Anglican Covenant now seems centered in the forthcoming debate in the English General Synod. The preliminary vote precedes the issue going to diocesan synods for debate…   Read full post >>

In Praise of Rhetoric?  Anti-Covenantal Myths of Puritanism and Anglicanism (Part One)
By:  Benjamin Guyer on November 18, 2010
Excerpt:  “…this present age full of tongue and weake of braine…” - Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, I.8.2 Écrasez l’infâme! Such is the clarion call of a recent…   Read full post >>

“For a fair and accurate debate on the Covenant, read it first”
Channel: Anglican Communion News Service
By:  Benjamin Guyer on November 16, 2010 Excerpt: Canon Alyson Barnett-Cowan, Director of Unity, Faith, and Order for the Anglican Communion, has released the following statement via the Anglican Communion News Service: Many things have already been said…   Read full post >>

In Praise of the Diocese of Uruguay
By:  Benjamin Guyer on November 15, 2010
Excerpt:  It was with considerable initial regret that I read of the Diocese of Uruguay’s attempt to leave the province of the Southern Cone and re-affiliate itself elsewhere. However, upon further…   Read full post >>

Sovereign Dioceses
By:  Fr. Tony Clavier on November 15, 2010
Excerpt:  Traditionalists are advancing the concept of “sovereign” dioceses in attempts to justify schism at the worst, or a modern collective version of passive obedience at best. It seems to me…   Read full post >>

Bishop Gregory Cameron’s Letter to the Church Times
By:  Benjamin Guyer on November 07, 2010
Excerpt:  Gregory Cameron, Bishop of St. Asaph's in the Church in Wales and former Director of Ecumenical Affairs for the Anglican Covenant, has written an excellent letter to the Church Times…   Read full post >>

The Church in Stone Or, Anglicanism and Canterbury Cathedral
By:  Benjamin Guyer on February 07, 2010
Excerpt:  As every student of Church history knows, one of the central arguments in early Christian centuries pertained to the created order. Gnostics, perhaps the earliest of heretical movements, believed that…   Read full post >>

A message from the Archbishop of Canterbury on the Anglican Communion Covenant
Channel: Archbishop of Canterbury  Author: Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
By:  Benjamin Guyer on December 18, 2009 Excerpt: After several years of work, the proposed covenant for the Anglican Communion has now reached its final form and is being distributed to the provinces for discussion, and I hope…   Read full post >>

The Anglican Covenant: Final Text
Channel: Anglican Communion News Service  Author: Covenant Design Group
By:  Benjamin Guyer on December 18, 2009 Excerpt: (4.2.1) The Covenant operates to express the common commitments and mutual accountability which hold each Church in the relationship of communion one with another. Recognition of, and fidelity to, this…   Read full post >>

The Full Text of the Apostolic Constitution  Author: His Holiness, Benedict XVI, Bishop of Rome & Patriarch of the West
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on November 09, 2009 Excerpt: The full text of the awaited Apostolic Constitution establishing norms for the reception of communities of Anglicans into union with the Holy See has been released.   Read full post >>

Adventures in Ecclesiology: Part III
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on November 05, 2009
Excerpt:  From time to time I run across a book, or a TV “infomercial, suggesting that the health of one particular organ or organ system within the human body is the…   Read full post >>

Seven Councils, One Tradition (Part 1)
By:  Sam Keyes on November 04, 2009
Excerpt:  Portions of this first part also appeared as an essay in The Living Church. It seems fitting, as other contributors engage with Richard Hooker’s account of faith and order, that…   Read full post >>

ACI Response to Bonnie Anderson
By:  Ephraim Radner on October 27, 2009
Excerpt:  The Diocese of South Carolina received a letter from Bonnie Anderson, the elected President of the House of Deputies. It was followed by a second statement saying that it was…   Read full post >>

Adventures in Ecclesiology: Part II
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on October 26, 2009
Excerpt:  Systematic Theology is the discipline of taking that which Christians believe and teach (or, in any case, that which any given systematic theologian thinks Christians should believe and teach) and…   Read full post >>

Conflict and Confusion
By:  Benjamin Guyer on October 24, 2009
Excerpt:  Bruce Kaye’s new book, Conflict and the Practice of Christian Faith: The Anglican Experiment (Pickwick Publications, 2009) is, at best, very strange. It is built upon historical error and sloppy…   Read full post >>

Adventures in Ecclesiology: Part I
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on October 19, 2009
Excerpt:  This is the first of what I anticipate will be a four-part series on how we think theologically about the Church. Mine has been one of the voices in the…   Read full post >>

Dioceses’ Endorsement of the Covenant
Channel: Anglican Communion Institute Inc.
By:  Ephraim Radner on October 01, 2009 Excerpt: From the Anglican Communion Institute, Inc. ACI welcomes the encouragement given by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the decision by the Diocesan Board and Standing Committee of the Diocese of…   Read full post >>

Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God
By:  Craig Uffman on September 28, 2009
Excerpt:  “(Mark 9:38–50 NRSV) “John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” But…   Read full post >>

Origins of TEC Polity: A Brief Sketch
By:  Craig Uffman on September 22, 2009
Excerpt:  In response to several of our discussions regarding the role of bishops and the polity of TEC, I am providing this brief sketch of our formation. Some Preliminaries The Nova…   Read full post >>

Why Churchless Christianity Doesn’t Work
Channel: Christianity Today  Author: Katie Galli
By:  Craig Uffman on September 14, 2009 Excerpt: A steady stream of books with titles like Pagan Christianity?, Quitting Church, Life After Church, and They Like Jesus But Not the Church show that some of the church's staunchest…   Read full post >>

Communion Partner Dioceses and The Anglican Covenant
By:  Ephraim Radner on September 08, 2009
Excerpt:  1. We address below issues related to the capacity of CP dioceses to sign the Anglican Covenant. We consider the text of Section 4 of the Ridley Cambridge draft, ACC…   Read full post >>

Stop Tolerating Each Other!  A Sermon on Ephesians 5:15-6:16
By:  Craig Uffman on August 31, 2009
Excerpt:  This morning I am going to do two things that you may not have heard a Christian preacher do. First, I am going to preach about a greek god whose…   Read full post >>

Ecclesial Reconciliation and the Anglican Covenant Agreement
By:  Katie Silcox on August 14, 2009
Excerpt:  Between April of 1994 and November of 1995, ten Churches signed what is known as, The Porvoo Common Statement with the Porvoo Agreement (http://www.porvoochurches.org/intro.htm). The commendation and signing of the…   Read full post >>

Tract 6: Respecting Boundaries (Pt 4)
By:  Dr. Nathan Jennings on August 05, 2009
Excerpt:  Go to Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3 of this series of six articles in ecclesiology. In the previous posts of this series I have pointed out the deep…   Read full post >>

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