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Thursday, February 15, 2007
Anglicans Meet Today
Today is the beginning of the Anglican Communions annual meeting. Leaders of the Communion from all over the world will come together to discuss current issues faced by Anglicans. There are three historic groups in Anglicanism that are going to be represented today: Liberals, such as the US Episcopal church; Evangelicals, such as much of the global south; and Catholics, the camp the Archbishop of Canterbury himself belongs to. It is essential to the concept of Anglican ecclesiology that all three groups exist to critique, inform, and admonish the others for the mutual benefit of all. Unfortunately, we find that this is something which is very difficult to see through, especially now, during these challenging times for the Communion. Jordan Hylden at First Things has written a concise article on the nature of the meeting and the significance of all three groups. In light of the possible fracture Anglicans may face as a result of this meeting, Hylden offers this bit of observation: It is here where the wisdom of the third Anglican group, the catholics, absolutely must be heard this week in Tanzania. These Anglicans, represented best by Rowan Williams and the American theologian Ephraim Radner, believe just as strongly as the evangelicals in the bedrock truths of Christianity, but also think that the Church itself is an essential part of God’s plan for us to discern truth. Being Reformation Christians, Anglican catholics know that sometimes the Church can be wrong, thus needing always to test herself by the standard of Scripture. But they point out that while Scripture itself may be clear, we Christians are sinful and perverse, so that we stand in need of the whole body of Christ to discover God’s will for his Church. Today it is my sincere prayer that God will reveal himself in a powerful way to the various leaders representing in Tanzania that the church may be held together and brought back, one piece to another, to full restoration. Amen.
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Amen.
I second the "amen."
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