Having written glibly about the “controversial” covenant of beliefs that Rowan Williams wants the bishops to take back to their provinces, I’ve now read a draft of the thing, and can summarise it as follows:
1. If an Anglican province signs up to the covenant, it agrees to not do anything contrary to the policies of the Anglican Communion.
2. If it goes ahead and does it anyway, then it will have ignored the covenant.
3. Which means … um, we’ll get back to you on that.
Or maybe I’ve misread the draft. This whole covenant thing is elusive, shall we say.
Might I suggest the dreaded “comfy chair”.
A very amusing commentary.
Well, this lack of consequences follows from the lack of theological consequences proclaimed by the reappraisers.
Doing the Lambeth Walk, but not the fun one.
Just one more thing for TEO to ignore. The more things change, the more they stay the same.