The Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations (IASCER) met in Cairo, Egypt, from Wednesday, 5th to Monday, 10th December 2007, under the chairmanship of the Most Revd Drexel Gomez, Primate of the Church in the Province of the West Indies. The Commission is charged with reviewing current international ecumenical dialogues involving Anglicans, and provincial and regional initiatives towards unity with other Christians. IASCER consists of representatives from each international dialogue involving Anglicans, including the multilateral dialogue of Faith and Order, and of certain other commissions and networks, and consultants who bring particular regional or theological expertise.
Reports were received of all current bilateral theological dialogues of the Anglican Communion, as well as of developments from particular regions of the globe. In the course of reflections on the current life of the Anglican Communion, the commission also responded further to the proposals for an Anglican Covenant following the publication of the initial work of the Covenant Design Group, which presented a first draft for a covenant to the Primates’ Meeting in February 2007. The Commission gave consideration to issues relating to the practice of admitting the non-baptised to Holy Communion, to issues raised by the recent Responses on the Doctrine of the Church issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Roman Catholic Church, and received information on the ecumenical dimensions of the forthcoming Lambeth Conference.
Boy, I’d have loved to have been a fly on that wall.
Thank God the Russian Church just said “NO” and severed all discussions with TEC. There really is a point where that is the only appropriate response.
What possible “ecumenical dimensions” of Lambeth could there be? Beyond making sure that Orthodox & Roman Catholics look carefully and try to remember why they *had* any ecumenical relations with Anglicans.
I read in Internet an article of the TEC’s representative at this meeting, he was not very happy with what he heard there. He tells about the visit to the Coptic Patriarch, the Patriarch made a speech, attacking TEC and its pro gay agenda, in the speech he says that he read a book written by “Bishop Spong” and he was not impressed with what the holy bishop Spong wrote.
Paulo UK that is at http://ecubishop.wordpress.com/ and is dated 7 December 2007. Reading it will give major insight to the present inability of the leaders of ECUSA/TEC to hear the voice of any who disagree with them. Think of the word “hermeneutic” transformed to mean “what ECUSA/TEC thinks” and you’ll have the total picture. ECUSA/TEC is so deeply mired in revisionist, postmodern standards they posit that if God Almighty returned and told them otherwise in a blaze of heavenly glory, they would tell Him he needed to get with the proper hermeneutic, theirs.