[...] Once enthroned, Rowan Williams found himself caught in the web of a plot of international dimensions in which hard-line British evangelicals, ultraconservative American schismatics and an ambitious African Primate, with his band of assenting minions, had joined forces to capture the soul of Anglicanism, at the same time that they advanced their own particular agendas.
Up until the last meeting of the Primates in Dar es Salaam, the Archbishop of Canterbury tried to woo the leaders of the conspiracy by yielding to the majority of their wishes. As was to be expected, the ringleaders took Rowan Williams' acquiescence for weakness, and redoubled their efforts to make him sanction an American schism. Read more
Monday 16 July 2007
LA Pastoral Letter attacks 'hard line' British Evangelicals, African leadership
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
The first paragraph, last line, says it all. 'the manner in which we interpret Scripture and carry on the contextual ministry that our culture requires.' The real issue is does Scripture or culture set the agenda? In the writers view the '21st century Anglican Provinces' obviously espouses culture. As a member of one such Province I want to challenge that assumption. I firmly believe that Scripture must judge culture and be prophetic in doing so.
The letter reads like the ravings of a state-financed witness in a stalinist show trial.
What hope for TEC if it harbours bishops with such a warped view of reality?
Post a Comment