Archbishop Duncan, visiting Canada last week for the first time since he became head of the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA), the first Anglican jurisdiction that crosses national boundaries, earlier this year, says it is the national churches in Canada and the United States — the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church USA — that are the real schismatics, trading in the Bible and orthodoxy for a trendy form of Christianity that is trying to be popular instead of faithful.
Those institutions have “turned so far to the left” they are now on the road to virtual oblivion, he said, pointing to such innovations as the blessing of same-sex marriage.
“They’ll become irrelevancies,” he said during an interview with the National Post. “People who are looking for a saviour who can save. They are really looking for how they can shape their lives and what they can trust in. And what the [national churches] are offering is Jesus Lite. Folks don’t need a Jesus Lite.”
[i]the first Anglican jurisdiction that crosses national boundaries[/i]
Not doing their homework I see. The province of the Southern Cone includes six nations. The province in Central America crosses a number of national boundaries. TEC includes dioceses in a number of different countries. The province in the West Indies includes many island nations. And those are all the ones right here close to home in the “New World.”
If Bob Duncan has departed the Episcopal Church then why is he
attacking it? He is defining himself in terms of what he is against,
rather than what he is for. That kind of rhetoric gets very tiresome, very fast.
#2, What a strange question. One could as well ask why Athanasius continued to be critical of Arius after he had gone in to exile.
One thing, and then I’ll stop: [b]I truly do wish that writers would stop referring to us as a GROUP.[/b] We are a [b]church,[/b] according to our title.
A new reformation could just mean the creation of several newly independent churches that proceed to splinter into many, many more. For most of the world’s Christians, the Reformation is something of a catastrophe — not an experience to be repeated.