Entries Tagged as “Covenant”

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“Forceful” Fictions and the Anglican Covenant
By:  Benjamin Guyer on November 10, 2011
Excerpt:  At its November 2011 Diocesan Synod, the Diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich voted against the Anglican Covenant after considering two papers on it. The first was by the bishop…   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 >>

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 >>

Monarchy and Archiepiscopacy in England: A Working Thesis
By:  Fr. N.J.A. Humphrey on May 18, 2010
Excerpt:  In the constitutional arrangements of England, the Church and the State have the same cultural norms and expectations for their nominal heads, the Sovereign and the Archbishop of Canterbury. To…   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 >>

Keep Moving ... Nothing to See Here
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on October 01, 2009
Excerpt:  Anglican cyberspace is abuzz this morning with the release of a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury to Central Florida Bishop John Howe, which is in response to a request…   Read full post >>

I Am Encouraged
By:  Fr. Tony Clavier on September 01, 2009
Excerpt:  I am grateful to God that I knew Bishop Stanley Atkins. He was Bishop of Eau Claire, a Northumbian with a taste of His Newcastle accent, who emigrated as a…   Read full post >>

The Political Challenge of Catholic Anglicanism
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on August 05, 2009
Excerpt:  On the Sunday evening that fell during General Convention, it was my privilege to serve as a panelist in a roundtable discussion sponsored by <i>The Living Church. The subject was…   Read full post >>

The Archbishop’s Non-Euclidean Ecclesiology
By:  Fr. N.J.A. Humphrey on July 30, 2009
Excerpt:  As a freshman in college, I was taught that parallel lines never cross. This is the mathematical layman's way of summarizing the fifth postulate of Euclid's Elements of Geometry. Euclid's…   Read full post >>

Rowan Williams: Communion, Covenant and our Anglican Future
By:  Craig Uffman on July 27, 2009
Excerpt:  From the web site of the Archbishop of Canterbury 1. No-one could be in any doubt about the eagerness of the Bishops and Deputies of the Episcopal Church at the…   Read full post >>

This is about ecclesiology
Channel: America  Author: Austen Ivereigh
By:  Douglas LeBlanc on July 23, 2009 Excerpt: ... The point is, "schism" is not the right word for what is happening. A schism refers to a part of the Christian body separating from another. But the TEC…   Read full post >>

Tract 8: The Organizational Basis of the Anglican Communion (Pt 1)
By:  Ephraim Radner on July 09, 2009
Excerpt:  Go to Part 2 of this series. The proposed covenanting of Anglican churches that is embodied in the Covenant “process” now before the Anglican Communion has brought to the fore…   Read full post >>

Should we all join the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans?
By:  Andrew Goddard on June 30, 2009
Excerpt:  Co-published with Fulcrum with permission of the author. The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) launches in the UK in early July, just over a year after it was formed at…   Read full post >>

ACNA: Provincial Council endorses Covenant; Expresses solidarity with Communion Partners
By:  Fr. Jody Howard on June 24, 2009 Excerpt: The Anglican Church in North America Provincial Council has endorsed the Anglican Covenant and expressed solidarity with the Communion Partners. The Covenant is a four-part document that outlines the basics…   Read full post >>

The Wisdom of the Cross and ACC-14
By:  Ephraim Radner on May 13, 2009
Excerpt:  The Anglican Communion Institute A number of persons from around the Communion have asked me for my perspective on the recent ACC meeting’s treatment of the proposed Anglican Covenant. There…   Read full post >>

Listen to Presidential Address at ACC
Channel: Anglican Communion News Service  Author: Rowan Williams
By:  Craig Uffman on May 12, 2009 Excerpt: On the eve of the closing of the Anglican Consultative Council 14 meeting in Kingston, Jamaica the Archbishop Of Canterbury delivered his presidential address. The Council has a chair and…   Read full post >>

ACI Statement on the Anglican Consultative Council
By:  Ephraim Radner on May 10, 2009
Excerpt:  The Anglican Communion Institute Friday’s session of the Anglican Consultative Council is an embarrassment to Anglicans everywhere, and a sad display of procedural confusion. Members were given complex resolutions right…   Read full post >>

ACC Fails to Forward Covenant
Channel: Episcopal News Service  Author: Mary Frances Schjonberg
By:  Craig Uffman on May 08, 2009 Excerpt: [Episcopal News Service -- Kingston, Jamaica] The representatives of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) decided on May 8 that the Ridley Cambridge Draft of an Anglican covenant needs more work…   Read full post >>

Rowan Williams Pleas for ‘shared honesty’
Channel: Church Times  Author: Pat Ashworth
By:  Craig Uffman on May 08, 2009 Excerpt: The Anglican Communion may not survive its current crisis over authority and dif fering theological perspectives, the Archbishop of Canterbury acknowledged on Tuesday. But he insisted: “Even if we are…   Read full post >>

The Continuing Indaba and Mutual Listening Project
Channel: Anglican Communion News Service
By:  Craig Uffman on May 07, 2009 Excerpt: During the past few years the Anglican Communion has been developing a ‘Listening Process’. The root of the process was in response to the request of the bishops attending the…   Read full post >>

ACC Meeting Wednesday Evening Update
Channel: Anglican Communion News Service
By:  Craig Uffman on May 06, 2009 Excerpt: Another important matter to come before ACC-14 is consideration of the final report of The Windsor Continuation Group. The WCG was set up by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2007…   Read full post >>

‘Evolving’ covenant adoption process makes for ambiguity
Channel: Episcopal Life  Author: Mary Frances Schjonberg
By:  Craig Uffman on May 06, 2009 Excerpt: [Episcopal News Service -- Kingston, Jamaica] Two leaders in the development of the proposed Anglican covenant said here May 5 that the process which might be used for Anglican entities…   Read full post >>

ACC-14 Press Briefing 5th May 2009
Channel: Anglican Communion News Service
By:  Craig Uffman on May 06, 2009 Excerpt: One of the most important issues to come before the Anglican Consultative Council is the draft text of the Anglican Covenant. The idea for an Anglican Covenant has been before…   Read full post >>

Williams calls for theologically aware communion
Channel: Episcopal Life  Author: Mary Frances Schjonberg
By:  Craig Uffman on May 05, 2009 Excerpt: [Episcopal News Service -- Kingston, Jamaica] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams told the representatives of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) meeting here May 5 that he wants the Anglican Communion…   Read full post >>

ACC asked to send covenant to provinces for approval
Channel: Episcopal Life  Author: Mary Frances Schjonberg
By:  Craig Uffman on May 05, 2009 Excerpt: [Episcopal News Service -- Kingston, Jamaica] The representatives of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) meeting here May 2-12 are considering whether to ask the member provinces of the worldwide communion…   Read full post >>

ACC Meeting Starts with Credentials Flap
Channel: Living Church
By:  Craig Uffman on May 04, 2009 Excerpt: The Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) meeting in Jamaica began May 2 under protest when the credentials of the Rev. Philip Ashey, the clergy representative designated by the Church of Uganda,…   Read full post >>

At ACC meeting, ++Rowan calls church to focus on mission
Channel: Episcopal Life  Author: Mary Frances Schjonberg
By:  Craig Uffman on May 04, 2009 Excerpt: The Anglican Church must challenge itself and challenge its neighbors to respond to the material and spiritual needs of the world, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams told more than 6,000…   Read full post >>

Bishops’ Statement on the Polity of the Episcopal Church
By:  Ephraim Radner on April 22, 2009
Excerpt:  Published by the Anglican Communion Institute We write as Bishops of The Episcopal Church, the Anglican Communion and the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. We are joined by distinguished…   Read full post >>

Book Review: An Anglican Covenant
By:  Benjamin Guyer on April 08, 2009
Excerpt:  An Anglican Covenant: Theological and Legal Considerations for a Global Debate Norman Doe Canterbury Press (2008) xii + 259 pp. isbn: 9781853119040 On the front cover of the present volume…   Read full post >>

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