1/28/2004

Contending with Anglican Realignment (first published, The Wtiness , 1/28/04)

From the Article....

The comfort in believing the Anglican Communion to be a substantial reality in a relatively secure universe has been replaced by the discomfort of a more fractured world and a shadow of a substance....

We are in the church mess of our times because national churches, denominations and world church structures cannot stand solid in a world where the notion of a single overarching narrative is no longer considered either relevant or possible....

The western world was brought kicking and screaming into modernity, and parts of the church never got over it. . . And now, as modernity is undergoing a transformation into we know not what -- that is, as we enter the post-modern period -- the church is kicking and screaming again....

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