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A controversy has erupted in the Diocese of Central Florida over an apparent request by the dean of the cathedral to postpone the infant baptism of a same sex couple. This led to Facebook and blog postings, general outrage and immediate calls for charges under Title IV. All this before the facts were known. Given the lack of knowledge of all the relevant facts in this instance it is not appropriate for reasonable people to comment on this particular case, let alone encourage legal proceedings founded on ignorance of the facts. We will not address this case here. However, the question of...
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From the end of the Roman Empire into early modern times the Christian Church has, here and there, practiced forced conversions. The most frequent objects of this practice were Jews; and among them were most especially children, "converted" in the form of forced baptism. The official teachings of the church since the 5th century at least, forbade such forced baptisms, but the practice continued nonetheless. One problem that the church had to face was how to deal with the children thus baptized. Forced baptism of Jewish children judged to be of the age of "reason" was assumed to be valid...
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We write to bring to the attention of the Bishops, Priest, Deacons and Lay Persons of The Episcopal Church (TEC) a matter of grave concern. It is a matter that, left unaddressed in the decision-making of General Convention, now threatens the integrity and public witness of everyone who calls him or herself an Episcopalian: is our church prepared to permit in its midst clergy and lay leaders who, however much they represent a minority opinion, are committed to a traditional reading of TEC's Prayer Book and Constitution? Or will TEC instead seek to drive such persons out, by invective...
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Claiming our Anglican Identity Seeking the mind of Christ for the Body of ChristClaiming our Anglican Identity The Case Against the Episcopal Church, USA A Paper Commissioned For the Primates of the Anglican Communion by The Most Rev. Drexel Gomez, The Most Rev. Peter Akinola, and The Most Rev. Gregory Venables © Copyright 2003 The Anglican Communion Institute 601 North Tejon Street Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903 All Rights Reserved Table of Contents: Preface iv Summary 1 General Convention Actions in Dispute 2 General Convention Actions Violate: Meaning of Scripture 2 Common Reading of...
Microsoft Word - 40D1A1C1-1DC0-1089A5.doc Communion and Discipline A Submission to tho Lambeth Commission by the Anglican Communion Institute Seeking the tmnd of Christ for the Body of Christ Table of Contents PREFACE 3 P REVIOUS PAPERS 3 T HE C ALL FOR D ISCIPLINE 4 T HE P RIORITY OF T HEOLOGY EVEN IN A C RISIS 5 INTRODUCTION: THE PRESENT CRISIS OF COMMON LIFE 6 N ORTH A MERICA: A CCELERATED D ISINTEGRATION 6 T HE W IDER C OMMUNION: MAJOR REALIGNMENTS 8 A W AY F ORWARD? 8 A FALSE PARADIGM OF RESPONSE 10 T HE SUBSTANTIVE ISSUE OF THE PRESENT CRISIS IS NOT COHERENT WITH THE PARADIGM OF...
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NEAC 4 Monday 22 September at 7.15 pm Edith Humphrey The New Testament Speaks on Same-Sex Eroticism A faithful reading of scripture is crucial to understanding the issue before us. Scripture is, of course, key to the thinking of the Christian. While we are first of all people of Christ, we are also people of the Book. It is most particularly in the Bible that the supreme glory of our Lord is shown so that the Church can together know the One who is the Truth, and therefore worship together. To read scripture as it is meant to be read, we begin with an understanding of its character. It is not...
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Radner 2004 Oct Note_on_the_Windsor_Report-Radner A note on the Windsor Report The Rev. Ephraim Radner What has the Report offered as a whole? A definition of "communion" generally An insistence that we, as Anglican churches, are "in fact" bound up in this general definition as a reality of our life. A definition of the responsibilities of this communion A description of how these responsibilities have been contradicted by ECUSA, Canada, and "interveners" A description of the structures by which "communion responsibility" can be better advanced and enacted A recommendation of ways to move...
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A Commentary on the Address of the Bishop of Exeter to the American House of Bishops" by the Rev. Dr. Andrew Goddard, Anglican Communion Institute Fellow Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060613005005/http:/anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/2006/Exeterpiece02.html The content of the address of the Bishop of Exeter to ECUSA’s House of Bishops would have made it highly significant in its own right. The fact that he delivered it as the representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury ‘who”, as Bp. Langrish says, “specifically asked me to bring you this message and assure you of his...
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Commentary on the Subcommittee’s Report Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20070220153345/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/2006/CommentaryonTheReportoftheCommunionSub.htm The Report of the Communion Sub-Group of the Joint Standing Committee of the Primates’ meeting and the Anglican Consultative Council produced instant responses of horror from those committed to Lambeth I.10 and delight from those wishing to see The Episcopal Church (TEC) remain fully integrated in the life of the Communion. It is not difficult to see why these were the initial reactions but it may be...
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The Most Rev. Drexel W. Gomez Archbishop of the Bahamas ACI Future of Anglicanism Conference Charleston, South Carolina January 8, 2004 Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040201221646/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/foa-gomez.htm Recent events in North America have placed the entire Anglican Communion into a state of crisis. We are, as Anglicans, at a critical crossroad in our pilgrimage as a Communion. I refer of course to the actions of the Bishop and Synod of the Diocese of New Westminster in Canada where same sex blessings were officially endorsed and authorized by the...
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