Revisionism within the Anglican Communion has caused a serious decline in ecumenical relations with Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and a range of other Christian bodies, Quincy Bishop Keith Ackerman told a gathering of conservative Anglicans on September 13.
Comments from ecumenical partners at the 2008 Lambeth Conference made it “obvious the ecumenical relationships are eroding rapidly in many places,” Ackerman told some 100 persons attending the Festival of Faith at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Bladensburg, Maryland.
The Quincy prelate, who leads Forward in Faith, North America, was joined at the day-long event by West Indies Archbishop Drexel Gomez, chairman of the panel that is formulating an Anglican Covenant designed to help ensure greater unity among historically autonomous Anglican provinces. (See a separate VOL/TCC story on Archbishop Gomez’s remarks.)
Ackerman said Anglican ecumenical relations have been impacted in part by the fact that, increasingly, there are people who call themselves Anglican who share very little, if anything, with traditional Anglicanism.
Not necessarily. The type of conversation changes, however.
Mr. Wilkins, to exactly what in Robert England’s thirteen paragraphs does your adverbial “not necessarily” apply?
John is correct. The ecumenical conversation changes to something like Christian-Muslim or Christian-Mormon conversation, etc.
If John is correct, then robroy has it right and it is no longer an ecumemical conversation and now should become, by the Great Commission, an evangelical conversation whose aim is, dare I say it, conversion to actual Christianity. Hence GAFCON!
[blockquote]The ecumenical conversation changes to something like Christian-Muslim or Christian-Mormon conversation, etc. [/blockquote]
Or it simply ceases. The Russian Orthodox Church suspended all ecumenical dialogue with TEC following VGR. I continue to pray for the other Orthodox jurisdictions to follow this example.
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