Leaders of the Anglican Communion are to employ professional mediators in an attempt to resolve their ongoing dispute over sexuality.
The announcement came at the close of a five-day meeting of senior bishops held in Alexandria, Egypt.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, said there was “deep division” among member churches.
But he added that “the willingness to find reconciliation has been very much in evidence”.
I think the communique is a betrayal, as I as much as said elsewhere, but the idea of having ACNA as a recognized group sitting down with Schori for mediation – well, that is one cause to snicker in the whole thing. I doubt Schori would do it and confer even that meager legitimacy on ACNA.
Balderdash! The only ‘willingness to reconcile’ here in the US on TEc’s side is if the reasserters capitulate on all fronts and accept heresy as equal to orthodoxy.
More smoke and mirrors.
Employing mediation implies that the basic disagreement involves the parties’ interests, perceptions, and human relations—not a fundamental difference of theological [i]principle[/i].
I read an opinion elsewhere that a typically pusillanimous and temporizing Primates response could actually work to the advantage of ACNA. Time could be useful to ACNA as it works through house keeping issues such as its constitution and canons (which really do need a lot of work) as well as thorny issues such as women’s ordination and differences of ecclesiology. Hopefully, the displeasure expressed by Integrity is genuine and well justified.
As long as reconciliation means acceptation by all men of ECUSA/TEC/GCC/EO-PAC’s gay agenda, there is no problem. Mediation requires that some one of the sides is willing to move from intransigence. KJS and the actions of multitudinous dioceses has demonstrated that there is no point to mediation unless all the Christian world is to be reconciled to the ECUSA/TEC/GCC/EO-PAC position in heresy against all comers.
What exactly, dwstroud, is the ECUSA “heresy” (let alone “heresy against all comers”)? As a member, I’ve not been able to discern any doctrinal failing in the Church’s positions. And I haven’t the slightest idea about the Church’s “gay agenda.” Can you inform me where to find it? I went to the TEC website and found nothing there resembling a “gay agenda.”
Well, OK, #6 – this may give you some clues about the agenda you claim not to be aware of:
http://chicagoconsultation.org/newstext.php?id=3