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ON THE HOLY SPIRIT Ephraim Radner Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20050804074153/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/HolySpirit.htm One of the most theologically knotted areas of our present disputes within the Church is the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. I daresay that it is this doctrine, more than many others, where some of the greatest confusions and errors have come home to roost among us. In general, these confusions center on a view that sees the Holy Spirit as a kind of independent divine operator, responsible for the function of creating new things. This stands...
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On the Sorrow of Open Communion Ephraim Radner Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051018101343/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/Open_Communion.htm The topic of Open Communion (receiving the unbaptized at the Eucharist) is finally emerging as a subject for public discussion in ECUSA. One wonders why it has taken so long. Certainly we have been aware of the burgeoning practice of Open Communion for some time. At least 10 years ago it was the public posture of the Cathedral in Denver and of several other churches in Colorado (including some well-known evangelical...
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Women’s Ordination and the Church’s Order Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060212022038/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/womens_ordination.htm One effect of the current struggles within the Anglican Communion has been to bring again to the fore the matter of women’s ordination. Not that it was ever really marginalized as a concern – certainly not for the many Anglicans in especially America and in Britain who have felt betrayed and placed at odds with their own church because of the adoption of a practice they feel is contrary to the Church’s faith and scandalous...
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The Corrupted Church: A Comment on the Pragmatism of To Set Our Hope On Christ Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051220193423/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/Corruption.htm Ephraim Radner David Brooks has called this the “Hobbesian Decade”. Looking at all the social, international, and natural disordering of lives of the present, and the responses we have collectively offered in return, he sees these years we are living in a special way as the throbbing image of our desperate and brutal humanity. It isn’t exactly clear why some decades deserve such...
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Two Notes on the Church of Nigeria’s Constitutional Revisions – The Rev. Ephraim Radner Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060130195110/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/NigeriaNotes.htm (These appeared previously on the Titusonenine and Fulcrum weblogs.) I. Graham Kings and Francis Bridger wrote a small piece ( Church Times ,Sept. 23, 2005) in which they questioned the wisdom of recent revisions made by the (Anglican) Church of Nigeria to its Constitution. Kings and Bridger wondered if “deleting” references to communion with the See of Canterbury was a helpful or...
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Come Up Higher: A Response to the Report of the Special Commission on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion Ephraim Radner Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060617071530/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/2006/commisionresponce.html “One Baptism, One Hope in God’s Call: The Report of the Special Commission on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion” is a significant, if quite imperfect step, in the process that ECUSA must follow if this church is to maintain its integrity as both a witness to the Gospel and an existing and thriving institution, and...
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If there is a future for ECUSA and the Anglican Communion, then what? Ephraim Radner Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060627211846/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/2006/PostWindsor.html What if the Episcopal church actually “turned back” from its decisions of GC 2003 and their presuppositions – that is, what if she “repented” on the matter of gay blessings and consents and ordinations and consecrations? How would we start talking to each other again, how engage the deep (some would say irreconcilable) differences among us? I ask the question not because I assume...
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The Two Providences: Democracy and the Church’s Witness Ephraim Radner Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060210160117/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/TwoProvidences.html Every community has its thrift store run by someone – Goodwill, Salvation Army, maybe the local Methodist women. Where I grew up, it was a store run by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. As a child, my mother would drag me along as she poked around for this or that. The place was vast and dingy. One rubbed shoulders with people you wouldn’t normally spend time with. In my mind, I tend to lump all...
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How does the ACI see the present challenge in the Communion? A response to Matt Kennedy about American Anglican strategy in response to General Convention. Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20060805174554/http://anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/2006/ACI_challenge.html 1. There is no doubt that people at certain and varying points feel the need to leave the Episcopal Church - most likely because of the burden they have to protect their spiritual and emotional health. This is all quite appropriate. It is not, however, a "strategy". It is a matter of individual discernment for the...
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Making Promises: the Proposed Anglican Covenant in the life of communion Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20070505204427/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/2006/Covenant.html (based on a talk to the clergy of the Diocese of the Rio Grande , February, 2007) Ephraim Radner The Proposed Covenant recently commended by the Primates to the Communion for study and response deserves serious discussion, not only with regards to its particulars, but more importantly, with regard to its larger purpose and character. However critical may be the recommendations of the Primates...
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