Basing full membership of the Anglican Communion on compliance with the text of a covenant may send unintended messages about exclusion, Dr Peter Selby, the former Bishop of Worcester, said this week.
Speaking at the Inclusive Church conference, Dr Selby offered a detailed critique of Communion, Covenant, and our Anglican Future, the statement issued by Dr Rowan Williams after the recent General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States. (News, 31 July,)
Dr Selby said that both of the main arguments made in the Archbishop’s paper had a two-edged character. The requirement that, in order to be recognisable, Anglicans needed patterns and convictions such as those proposed in the Anglican Covenant, raised the fundamental biblical question “recognisable to whom?” Being recognisable to “the least of the brothers and sisters” (Matthew 25) mattered at least as much as being recognisable to other provinces, Dr Selby contended.
Right. Why should Anglicans believe anything in common.
He’s the former bishop who was so dodgy that he managed to lose a Kidderminster congregation when the Rev. Charles Raven and his congregation set up a new church.
A divisive and arrogant man. He has done enough damage to the CofE. We regret his passing…NOT.
Selby said Lambeth 98 had ‘the atmosphere of Nuremburg’. Such love.
Pageantmaster was right: he was just another leftist-liberal academic who was disastrous and divisive as a bishop.
All praise, honor and glory to the Great God Inclusivity!
Even if we have to drive out all those who wish to continue in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in the
prayers.
Maybe we should change it from “The Anglican Communion” to “The Exclusive Inclusive Communion”.
#4: How about the Exclusive Sistern? 🙂
Luv. All you need is luv. A Beatle’s theology bishop from England! Wot?