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Commentary on Dr Allison and Dr Radner B. Todd Granger, MD Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040220061555/http://anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/granger040126.htm The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle 26 January 2004 Published in Anglican journalist David Virtue's e-mail digest, the Rt Rev Dr Fitzsimmons Allison, Bishop of South Carolina (ret), has written a considered response to Dr Ephraim Radner's paper, " What Are We To Do: The Humiliation of Anglicanism", that Dr Radner presented at the ACI conference in Charleston two weeks ago. Dr Allison is himself a scholar, and has...
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Homosexuality And The American Religion The Rev. Leander S. Harding, Ph.D. Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040404000212/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/homoamerrel.htm Harold Bloom, an iconoclastic literary critic at Yale, wrote a book published in 1992, with the title The American Religion. Using an argument developed by Msgr. Ronald Knox in his magisterial work on Enthusiasm and by the Presbyterian theologian Phillip Lee in his book Against The Protestant Gnostics. Bloom makes a convincing case that the real American Religion that is the unofficial but actual...
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Godless Morality and the abandonment of Christian Identity by Trevor Hart Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20031010041055/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/godlessmorality.htm Godless Morality raises a series of far-reaching questions for those who would seek to live as Christians in today’s world. This sounds like a good thing on the whole, and perhaps it is. While faith is about much more than asking questions, it certainly cannot avoid them. If it is to pursue responsible answers then it must constantly be reminded what the relevant questions facing it actually are, not...
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Living with Diversity: Scripture, Tradition and the Present by Trevor Hart Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20031207111539/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/livingwithdiversity.htm 1. Title and task I should say at the outset that I interpret the word ‘present’ in my title as a substitute for the more traditional ‘reason’, rather than simply a reference to the temporal juncture at which we find ourselves. In other words, ‘present’ refers to the wider pattern of intellectual and cultural factors which form part of the matrix for the doing of Christian theology. I shall offer...
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"What constitutes a faithful reading of scripture?" Edith M. Humphrey Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20030922211536/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/whatconstitutes.htm A faithful reading of scripture is crucial to understanding the issues and questions before us. Scripture is key to the thinking of the Christian Church, and therefore of the Anglican communion. 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...
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"What is Disordered Sexuality?" Edith M. Humphrey Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20030922212659/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/whatisdisorderedsexuality.htm The phrase "disordered sexuality" is problematic. We have seen already ( in "What Constitutes a Faithful Reading of Scripture?) that the term "sexuality" is a modernly debated one that needs to be used with caution because of the various ways that it is understood in popular and academic contexts. This paper will concentrate upon what the Scriptures and the continuing tradition of the Christian community have said...
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Where is the candlestick? by Dr Edith Humphrey Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040625094335/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/humphreycandlestick.htm Last night, following Evening Prayer, nine Bishops of the ACC who remain faithful to the Scriptural teaching on sexuality stood up before General Synod. They issued a statement of regret and exhortation to the Anglican Church of Canada, for which they have been unjustly criticized. I am thankful for their forthright assertion that the “opinion” of the current Synod was “in error,” “contrary to the teaching of...
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Apprehending the Truth: A Conservative Perspective Ephraim Radner Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040407015334/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/apptruth.htm The current struggle for ECUSA’s future, and indeed for the whole Anglican Communion’s, offers a wonderful opportunity to clarify what we understand the Church’s character in history to be, how we think it faithful and reasonable as a church to orient our decision-making process within time, and what we apprehend as being the ties linking God’s creatures – including ourselves as ecclesial creatures in this...
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Concerning Anglican Fascism Ephraim Radner Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040604162225/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/radneronfascism.htm As Paul Zahl, the Dean of Advent Cathedral in Birmingham recently said, the accusation of “homophobia” when once leveled within our church at a Christian interlocutor, has the effect of stopping conversation cold and, with a little manipulation, tainting reputations and spoiling careers. It is also grossly unfair when used, in the present debate over the proper Christian teaching regarding sexual behavior, as a way to...
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A Vocation Amid the Church's Churches; Reflections by a Chastened Anglican by Ephraim Radner (Dec 8, 2004) Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051018101100/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/Vocation_(Radner).htm Spilt Blood A friend of mine once accused me of being in the "thrall of pessimism". What he meant by this was not that I worry too much, or that I am overly anxious, or gloomy even on sunny days. He referred rather to my purported embrace of the negative with such fervor and intensity as to turn it into a kind of transfiguring anti-dote to normal realism. As...
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