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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20030922234932/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/jesusquest.htm Jesus and the Quest by N. T. Wright, Bishop of Durham 1. Introduction I believe that the historical quest for Jesus is a necessary and non-negotiable aspect of Christian discipleship; that we in our generation have a chance to be renewed in discipleship and mission precisely by means of this quest; and, even, that we in the Anglican Communion may have a chance to play a significant role in this quest. I want to explain and justify each of these beliefs to you this evening. There...
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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051219000943/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/Compendium_of_Tom_Wright_on_Windsor.htm A Complete Compendium of Tom Wright on Windsor by Dr N. T. Wright (Nov 18, 2004) Reflections on the Windsor Report and its Reception a collection of pieces by the Bishop of Durham, Dr N. T. Wright, and others as at 5 November 2004 Introduction: Press Release by the Bishop of Durham on the day of the Report's Publication It was a huge privilege to serve on the Lambeth Commission under Archbishop Robin Eames, and it was a great encouragement that...
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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060419040157/http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk:80/news/2004/20041023wright.cfm Thoughts on Concerns and Questions about the Windsor Report by Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham and member of the Lambeth Commission The main reason the Lambeth Commission was asked to talk about communion life and structures rather than about sex was because there would have been no point in doing the latter. The Lambeth Conference 1998 had already reaffirmed the church's stance on the subject, by a very substantial majority; and this had in turn been underlined by the ACC...
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Why stay? “The issue, “ wrote Robert Bellah in THE GOOD SOCIETY, “both for the local parish and for the national or international Church, is whether membership is accepted as having a formative claim on one’s very sense of self, as involving a loyalty that can persist through difficulties, or whether membership is merely instrumental to individual self-fulfillment and, like some current conceptions of marriage, can be abandoned as soon as it ‘doesn’t meet my needs.’” In the current polarized condition of the Episcopal Church, that issue has become more crucial than ever before. A lot of people...
HOW AND WHY IC & MCU MISLEAD US ON THE ANGLICAN COVENANT Introduction and Executive Summary In the church press on Friday 29 th October, two Church of England groups, Inclusive Church (IC) and Modern Church (formerly, Modern Churchpeople’s Union, MCU), published a whole page advert headed ‘Who runs the Church?’. This explains why they believe the Anglican Covenant would be a change for the worse. Having offered an initial short critique of it, this offers a more detailed analysis of its claims. In the week leading to the Synod debate on the covenant and subsequent diocesan discussion, their...
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DO BISHOPS DESERVE DUE PROCESS? By Mark McCall On Friday the Presiding Bishop notified the House of Bishops that she would seek the deposition of Bishop Duncan next week. This announcement was contrary to other public statements by her office and the published agenda of the upcoming meeting. Any bishops wishing to speak against this unprecedented use of summary procedures against a sitting bishop of the church were given five days notice. She also served notice that she intends to run roughshod over the canons in seeking to depose Bishop Duncan and that only a two-thirds vote of those present...
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ACI’S POSITION ON TEC POLITY TEC is organized legally as a voluntary association. This is a recognized legal structure that TEC’s founders chose by explicitly using this precise legal terminology. The original members of this association were the independent state churches that joined together to form TEC. Additional members have since been added as new dioceses formed themselves and were then admitted to the association. TEC’s constitution is very precise that the formation of new dioceses “originates” in the unorganized area, which “duly constitutes” itself before being admitted to union...
The Making and re-making of Episcopal Canon Law Robert W. Prichard Before examining the current proposals and counterproposals about the relationship of the Episcopal Church to the Anglican Communion, it may be may be wise to reflect on earlier periods in which that relationship has been altered. It could be argued that the three most important such periods in the history of the Episcopal Church in which such change took place were: the American Revolution, the years following World War I, and the 1960s. The first of these three periods was perhaps the most radical, an attempt to revise...
T he Bishop of Winchester The Rt Revd Michael Scott-Joynt Wolvesey, Winchester SO23 9ND Telephone: 01962 854050 Facsimile: 01962 897088 Email: michael.scott-joynt@dsl.pipex.com www.winchester.anglican.org Does the Future have a Church of England? School of Theology in Jersey March 4 th 2009 If I were to dignify this Lecture with an “Executive Summary”, its answer to the question proposed by the title, that Paul Brooks offered me and that I accepted, might run as follows: Yes, I believe so; but as the Lecture notes threats and risks of sufficient significance at least to justify the Question...
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Response to the Statement of the Archbishop of Canterbury Regarding Lambeth Conference Invitations Some Anglicans, especially critics of the authority of the Primates Meeting as an Instrument of Unity/Communion have tended to see the four Instruments of Communion as competitors. There is no evidence that this view is held by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is himself an Instrument, and who presides at the Lambeth Conference, the Primates Meeting and the Anglican Consultative Council. Clearly he views the Instruments as mutually encouraging, even as they have a specific discrete identity and...
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