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Press release from the Bishop of Durham by Thomas Dunelm (Dec 10, 2004) Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20050126183736/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org/ As a member of the Lambeth Commission which produced the Windsor Report, I have been dismayed to see the misrepresentation, in some newspapers, of the views of the Chairman, Archbishop Robin Eames. Archbishop Eames has now issued a statement in which he has put the matter straight. Having worked with him closely for the last year, I can say with full assurance that this new statement, rather than the misleading reports...
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Different Gods Douglas Farrow* Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040623034728/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/farrowgods.htm There is a scene from seventy years ago, recounted by Karl Barth’s biographer, Eberhard Busch, that came to mind as I watched the sorry proceedings of the Anglican Church of Canada’s 2004 General Synod. On the evening of 22 January [1934] Barth was again called to Berlin unexpectedly. The next day he was a highly undesirable guest at an assembly of church leaders and theologians which was to make preparations for Hitler’s reception of seven...
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Ecclesial Existence Today Douglas Farrow Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20041010200007/http://anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/Ottawa.htm “For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords’), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things come and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. But not everyone knows this.” [1] What is the Church? The crisis in the Anglican Church of Canada does not concern the word Anglican...
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ECUSA goes it alone by Andrew Goddard Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040201230417/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/goddard031108.htm Anglican evangelicals utterly oppose the consecration of Gene Robinson as bishop. A spokesman outlines the steps that should now follow. FOR some Christians, the consecration of Canon Gene Robinson as bishop of the diocese of New Hampshire in the United States is a cause of great celebration. It bears witness to the inclusivity of the Christian Gospel. Those Christians are, however, a small minority both within the Anglican Communion and...
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A Critique of Mark Dyer’s Explanation of the Windsor Report, as recorded at Virginia Seminary by Dr. Andrew Goddard, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford (Oct 21, 2004) Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20050527082832/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/Dyer_Critique.htm Anglican Communion Institute Based on a transcript of Bishop Dyer’s explanation of the Windsor Report at Virginia Seminary, recently posted on the web, it is clear that he summarizes and interprets the Windsor Report in a variety of ways that are seriously misleading. Here are a few of them: What is the aim of the...
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ON READING THE PRIMATES’ COMMUNIQUE Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20050306001539/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/initialreflectionsrevised2.htm Introduction (paras 1-5) The opening three paragraphs of the communiqué ( paras 1-3 ) set the context of its primary substance ( paras 4-19 ): the response of the Primates to the current crisis and to the Windsor Report they commissioned from the Lambeth Commission last time they met ( para 4 ). The Primates begin with an account of how they received the Report and the responses to it. These “offered a high measure of...
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Fruits of Repentance by Andrew Goddard (Jan 18, 2005) Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20050306012147/http://anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/Fruits_of_Repentance.htm "We repent… we as the House of Bishops express our sincere regret for the pain, the hurt, and the damage caused to our Anglican bonds of affection by certain actions of our church… we express this regret as a sign of our deep desire for and commitment to continuation of our partnership in the Anglican Communion… We pray our brothers and sisters throughout the Anglican Communion will forgive us" Faced with such...
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"This House believes that a homosexual lifestyle is no bar to becoming a Bishop" Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051126031853/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/oxforduniontext05nov.htm On Thursday 3rd November the Oxford Union at Oxford University debated this motion. After opening speeches from students, the guest speakers were Richard Kirker (LGCM) and Gene Robinson (Bishop of New Hampshire) proposing and Andrew Goddard (Wycliffe Hall) and Colin Buchanan (former bishop of Woolwich) opposing. The following is Anglican Communion Institute Fellow Andrew Goddard’s...
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A Response to General Convention 2006 Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060805174629/http://anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/2006/Goddard_responce_gc2006.html In his response to General Convention, the Archbishop of Canterbury noted that ‘It is not yet clear how far the resolutions passed this week and today represent the adoption by the Episcopal Church of all the proposals set out in the Windsor Report’. What follows is an initial attempt to set out the necessary details and possible assessments in order to gain greater clarity on the crucial test of whether or not the...
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Various Online References to SEAD P C T I I Newsletter #2 Summer 1993 Second Start On hand for events of Brighton ‘91, Dr. Christopher Hancock co-chairs with Dr. David Scott an organization known as SEAD (Scholarly Engagement with Anglican Doctrine) which last met March 15-17, 1993 at Virginia Theological Seminary. Endorsed by Archbishop Carey, SEAD is composed of seven study groups: Anglican Studies, Biblical Studies, Ethics, Evangelism, Theology, Spirituality, and the Church’s Pastoral Ministry. For further information, contact one of the chairs through 704-370-6234 fax. http://www.pctii.org...
