Anglican Communion Institute (ACI)

A Conversation with Bishop Fitzsimmons Allison (re-posted from 2004)

Editor's note: In response to renewed interest on the blogosphere to the topics covered, I am re-posting the original response (from '04) that Ephraim Radner wrote to an article about him written by the Rt. Rev Fitzsimmons Allison.

Why Theology Should Precede Change

In August of 2007, we posted on the ACI site an essay by Dr. Jacqueline Jenkins Keenan. (The Anglican Communion Institute, Inc. - Why Theology Should Precede Change) In this essay, Dr.

A Reply by Philip Turner to Stephen Noll's Reply to Philip Turner

Dear Stephen,

An Open Letter to Rev. Prof. Stephen Noll

My dear Brother Stephen,

Resignation from ACN

A Brief Statement of Resignation from the Anglican Communion Network:

CMS Covenant for a Communion in Mission

Some Basic Presuppositions of this paper:
1.   God's world mission is the Bible's big story

2.   God's covenant with creation is God's commitment to mission and his invitation to humanity is to communion (participation) in his mission

3.   God is Covenantal, binding himself in the Missional life, death and resurrection of Jesus to be known in the Scriptural witness inspired by the Holy Spirit for our transformation

The Common Cause of a Common Light

The movement towards a separated North American Anglican church, aligned perhaps with one part of the Anglican Communion and not another, appears to be gaining steam. The focus of the Anglican Communion Network's official leadership has shifted perceptibly towards this goal, overtly transferring its energies from its work as a coalition of American traditionalist bishops working representatively with the larger Communion, to the strategy of a "Common Cause" formation of a new ecclesial structure that would function either as a new Anglican Communion province, or as a province in a new altern

Following Christ the Lord

Introduction

In this paper I examine theologically the nature of the Instruments of Communion and the proposal made about them in section 6 of the draft Anglican Covenant.

I begin by looking at what we mean by communion with the help of Andrei Rublev's icon 'The Old Testament Trinity,' before going on to look at how the word and the dominical sacraments are the primary means by which we enter into communion with God and each other.

The Place of Confession in an Anglican Covenant: Outline

The following is an outline of a presentation given by Dr. Radner at the Wycliffe Hall conference, June 2007.

Remarks in this discussion build on the previous reflections on the "search for one-mindedness", according to Philippians 2.

1. One-mindedness leads to a common confession. But "confession" -- "speaking as one" - is bound to the same context of attitudes as one-mindedness, and cannot preempt the character of its search.