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Archived at: https://web.archive.org/web/20040624123711/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/foundations-turner.htm The Network's Foundations The keynote address at the Colorado meeting of the Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes, at Christ Church, Denver, on 21 February 2004. By Philip Turner Archived at Introduction I have been asked to address a notoriously broad and difficult subject, "The Foundations of Christian Belief and Practice." The subject is broad because "the foundations" involve more than a few simple statements. They involve a complex of mutually...
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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051225111420/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/Self-Defining_Moment.htm THE WINDSOR REPORT: A "SELF" DEFINING MOMENT FOR ECUSA And The Anglican Communion The Rev. Dr. Philip Turner I It is so good to be back! I count my recent visit to the Diocese of West Texas among the best of my memories, that is to say memories of clergy conferences. I want to thank you for the careful attention you gave my remarks and for the very intelligent and probing questions with which you responded. This time my assignment is somewhat different. I have...
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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040115054614/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/foa-turner.htm The End of a Church And The Triumph of Denominationalism Or How To Think About What Is Happening In The Episcopal Church Philip Turner I On August 5, 2003 the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA), following an initial action by the House of Deputies of ECUSA’s General Convention, gave its consent (by a ratio of roughly 60/40) to the election of the Rev. Gene Robinson to become the next Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. Gene Robinson is an outspoken...
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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20040201215745/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/foa-diversity.htm Tolerable Diversity and Ecclesial Identity Does Anglicanism Have A Future? Philip Turner A talk given at the Anglican Communion Conference in Charleston, SC, of 8-10 January 2004 I Introduction Let me begin with a sheepish confession. The question in the sub-title of this talk, “Does Anglicanism Have A Future?” is purely rhetorical. Of course Anglicanism has a future. The real question is the form that future will take. Will we somehow get through the present crisis and...
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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051018103100/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/Shall_We_Walk_Together.htm Shall We Walk Together or Walk Apart? by The Rev. Dr. Philip Turner (Nov 10, 2004) I The long awaited Windsor Report (WR) is now in the public domain. On one level, this address is a response to both the content and tone of the report. On a deeper level, however, it is a discussion of the future (or lack thereof) of the Anglican Communion itself. Reactions to the report have been varied. Some hold it to have gone too far and others not far enough. Still others...
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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051018103742/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/articles/ECUSA_God.htm ECUSA'S GOD A Descriptive Comment on the "Working Theology" of the Episcopal Church U.S.A. by The Rev. Dr. Philip Turner (Jan 18, 2005) I In the pages that follow, I hope to describe and assess what might be called the "working theology" of the Episcopal Church U.S.A. (ECUSA). I have undertaken this exercise because recent actions on the part of the House of Bishops and the General Convention of this church have provoked a crisis within the Anglican Communion that might...
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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20050623075729/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/publications/Dodo_Phoenix/1stAddress.htm Philip Turner Moral Theology: Dodo or Phoenix? Session I Preface The following six addresses were written in response to requests from the Diocese of West Texas and the Anglican Communion Institute for an introduction to the moral problems now facing the Episcopal Church. There are six lectures, but there could have been ten or twenty. Even with a more extended treatment, there would have been more to say. What I have tried to do is simply develop an...
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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051018100833/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/publications/Dodo_Phoenix/2ndAddress.htm Moral Theology: Dodo or Phoenix? II The Focus of Christian Ethics: Three Views A. I am by profession a moral theologian, and giving these addresses stem from the fact that moral issues rather than theological ones present the divisive possibilities before which we now stand. These issues are as highly contentious as they are for a very good reason. They mark the points at which more traditional accounts of Christian belief and practice confront a moral...
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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051018104445/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/publications/Dodo_Phoenix/3rdAddress.htm Moral Theology: Dodo or Phoenix? III Where Do We Begin A. We are in the midst of a great shift in the cultural history of our country. Since our inception as a nation, America’s churches have been asked to provide a moral and spiritual base for a polyglot people gathered from the corners of the earth. Though no religion could be established and each person was to be allowed the free exercise of his or her religion, the Protestant churches in particular...
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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20051018100005/http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.org:80/publications/Dodo_Phoenix/4thAddress.htm Moral Theology: Dodo or Phoenix? IV BIRTH: A POINT OF DEFINITION FOR CHRISTIANS IN A NEW CENTURY A. I have argued that the Biblical witness points to the common life of the church as the primary focus of Christian Ethics and or Moral Theology. I arguing this case, I am not unaware that it may seem both a radical departure from past foci and unattractive (that is to say sectarian). I am also fully aware that I have used the terms Moral Theology and...
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