"Primates" from across the Anglican fellowship have been meeting in Canterbury, trying to avoid a fracture over the fact that the American Episcopal Church ordains openly practicing gay individuals as priests. The leader from Uganda actually walked out Wednesday night and the leaders from Africa apparently have been leading the charge to discipline or convince the Episcopal Church to withdraw from the Anglican communion.
The final outcome was to suspend the Episcopal Church for three years to give it time to repent. I suspect that fact means in three years it will be kicked out of the communion.
Very interesting. It perhaps marks a decisive moment in the shift of the center of Christianity to the two-thirds world. Here is the report in the Episcopal News Service.
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Friday, January 15, 2016
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Deaths, Splits, and Such
A couple items of interest this morning in the theological news.
First, it would appear that a group of Episcopals will withdraw from the Episcopal Church to form an Anglican Church in North America. I personally regret this. It is an all too familiar occurrence in Protestant church history. I obviously don't know the situation in any detail. Perhaps the leadership of the Episcopal Church is incorrigible.
But it seems to me it is one thing to leave a parent group in protest over injustices perpetrated on others (like leaving the Methodist Church over its support for slavery) and another to leave in protest of the ordination of a gay bishop (where one is protesting a church leader, as the Donatists did when they left the church in the 400's). I wonder the fate of a group founded on separatism and that of a church left without loyal opposition in its midst.
Like I said, I don't know the details.
Second, William Placher has died. This is quite a shock, since he was just on our campus a year ago this time. The shock to those who know David Dungan, a New Testament scholar, is even greater, since he was just with them at SBL last week.
First, it would appear that a group of Episcopals will withdraw from the Episcopal Church to form an Anglican Church in North America. I personally regret this. It is an all too familiar occurrence in Protestant church history. I obviously don't know the situation in any detail. Perhaps the leadership of the Episcopal Church is incorrigible.
But it seems to me it is one thing to leave a parent group in protest over injustices perpetrated on others (like leaving the Methodist Church over its support for slavery) and another to leave in protest of the ordination of a gay bishop (where one is protesting a church leader, as the Donatists did when they left the church in the 400's). I wonder the fate of a group founded on separatism and that of a church left without loyal opposition in its midst.
Like I said, I don't know the details.
Second, William Placher has died. This is quite a shock, since he was just on our campus a year ago this time. The shock to those who know David Dungan, a New Testament scholar, is even greater, since he was just with them at SBL last week.
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