tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post7160022818786975279..comments2024-02-15T03:32:25.686-05:00Comments on Preludium, Anglican and Episcopal futures: Exercising the little grey cells: Lenten Reading in a Difficult TimeMark Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06871096746243771489noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-85394323033108256632007-02-22T19:28:00.000-05:002007-02-22T19:28:00.000-05:00Mark --That is an excellent book -- we read it in ...Mark --<BR/><BR/>That is an excellent book -- we read it in refectory!<BR/><BR/>fr-eric --<BR/><BR/>The exact point you make is made in the book!<BR/><BR/>The WWAC is so paradoxical that it might actually survive :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-66194039258114657122007-02-20T16:07:00.000-05:002007-02-20T16:07:00.000-05:00There is an irony in the current situation of the ...There is an irony in the current situation of the Anglican Communion.<BR/><BR/>As I recall, the Church IN England became the Church OF England when the king, parliament and the bishops threw off the yoke of a FOREIGN PRIMATE, to wit, the Supreme Pontiff, the Universal Primate, the Bishop of Rome.<BR/><BR/>The Church of England thus began with an ethos of (for lack of a better word) HOME RULE in its own provinces of Canterbury and York. It passed that ethos on to its daughter churches and the practice of "foreign primacy" has been, wherever it was allowed to exist temporarily because of colonial or missionary history, ended as soon as practicable. <BR/><BR/>Now, those who have liberated themselves from such foreign primacy (the Global South, in other words) are turning about and insisting on exercising foreign primacy in the Episcopal Church (and, I suggest, shortly in the English church as well). <BR/><BR/>This may be anti-colonial, anti-imperial, anti-missionary backlash ... but it is also anti- Anglican. It is a betrayal of the very roots of Anglican identity.<BR/><BR/>It should never have been proposed; it should never of passed the Primates; and it should never be accepted in ANY province of the <BR/>Communion. I fervently hope that the deliberative bodies of other provinces react negatively and condemn this action even before the Episcopal Church is "required" to respond. I hope ... unfortunately, I don't really expect that to happen.Fr-Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12908584345996460614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-42727322016911257512007-02-20T11:32:00.000-05:002007-02-20T11:32:00.000-05:00Fr. Mark,Here's my answer to all of this.Fr. Mark,<BR/><BR/>Here's my <A HREF="http://regula.blogspot.com/2007/02/time-for-full-compliace-cassandras-of.html" REL="nofollow">answer</A> to all of this.Closedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04752595488795781895noreply@blogger.com