[...] The Achilles’ heel of the Anglican Communion is that it is more likely to go with the grain of the culture and the politically powerful than against them. Its origin in the concerns of Henry VIII to have all state institutions in the nation subject to him is one factor here.
But it is no longer possible to subject all state institutions in one geographical area to one jurisdiction. International companies, the internet, international networks such as the European Union are an expression of the globalisation that has rendered boundaries that were set by how far people could conveniently travel obsolete.
Geography is no longer the sole consideration when thinking about the space that we occupy. We live in global and universal space which is occupied by networks of people with values and commitments. In the church, we are now experiencing the church as envisaged in Acts 15, where Gentile and Jew ( different races and classes) are engaged closely together. Read more
Monday 23 July 2007
An end to Anglican nationalism
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On this one I agree with Chris Sugden much more than with you. We have to move beyond the expectation that any Anglican church body represents all the Christians, or even all the Anglicans, in any one country. If there is a need for more than one Anglican body in the USA, the time may be very near when there is the same need in England.
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