Following the resolution passed at ACC-14 (14.05) ‘The Bible in the Life of the Church’ a Steering Group has been appointed to take the work forward. It meets for the first time with the Chair, Archbishop David Moxon, Bishop of Waikato, New Zealand at the Anglican Communion Office from November 30th to December 3rd, 2009.
The work of the project will be undertaken in six regional groups hosted, in the main, by theological colleges within the Communion and a number of ‘user groups’ who will test out the work of the regional groups. Each regional group will have a coordinator who will be a member of the Steering Group. The Regional Groups are located in East Africa (St Paul’s, Limuru, Kenya), Southern Africa (University of KwaZulu-Natal and the Anglican House of Studies), North America (University of the South, Sewanee, USA), SE Asia (Trinity Theological College, Singapore), Oceania (drawing on the resources of the theological colleges in Melbourne, Australia) and Europe (Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, England).
In addition to the co-ordinators of the Regional Groups the Steering Group will have three ”˜theological consultants’ from Nigeria, Cuba and USA.
I’m sorry, I’m in the dark as to what this is all about. Even the ACC resolution is of no help. It simply refers to a “presentation by Archbishop Phillip Aspinall and the Director of Theological Studies.” Who is the “Director of Theological Studies”? What was the presentation? What is the purpose of the project? Does anyone have a link?
#1. Br_er Rabbit,
Here is a hint at where I think they are going.
Dcn Dale, those are the kind of hints that I fear. I do not trust ++Aspinall. According to David Ould, “[url=http://www.standfirminfaith.com/?/sf/page/7991]He was one of the main contributors to the joke that was the New Orleans House of Bishops statement[/url].” I fear that the “project” will be an effort to decomission the Bible as the leading force in the Anglican Communion.
#3. Br_er Rabbit,
I don’t trust ++Aspinall and I don’t trust the project. The cancer in TEC is metastasized and now I have to wonder….well, about Canterbury Anglicanism also.