{"id":9910,"date":"2008-12-02T16:27:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T16:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_richardsons_note_on_a_talk_by_christian_baxter_on_the_anglican_communi\/"},"modified":"2008-12-02T16:27:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T16:27:27","slug":"john_richardsons_note_on_a_talk_by_christian_baxter_on_the_anglican_communi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9910","title":{"rendered":"John Richardson&#39;s Notes on a Talk by Christina Baxter on the Anglican Communion and its future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of weaknesses of ACC, Donald Coggan called first meeting of Primates. This has been crucial in helping people understand one another and work on issues facing Anglican Communion. It has no legislative power \u201d\u201d it is a consultation.<\/p>\n<p>Anglican Communion is facing many things, many challenges, growing in some places, declining in others, making decisions which offend some parts of Anglican Communion and lacking opportunities to dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Who is an Anglican? Answer, \u201cDoes the ABC recognize you?\u201d\u009d He only recognizes bishops, by inviting them to Lambeth. Problem for ABC, if he doesn\u2019t invite a bishop, what does it say about the people in that diocese?<\/p>\n<p>ABC has lots of influence, but no power. If a Bishop is behaving notoriously, he cannot remove that person. He can only talk with ABp or Primate of that area and plead with them.<\/p>\n<p>ACC is in same situation. It has influence but no power.<\/p>\n<p>Lambeth Conference is the same. It has influence, but it has no power.<\/p>\n<p>The Primates\u2019 Meeting is in the same situation.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/chelmsfordanglicanmainstream.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/christina-baxter-hopes-we-wont-fracture.html\">Read it carefully<\/a>.  A couple of comments.  First, I prefer very much the category of authority rather than power.  Second, it is NOT true to say that the Lambeth Conference, for example, has <b>no<\/b> authority, it does have authority, the question is what kind of authority does it have.  Again, my preference is to talk in terms of personal and moral authority rather than legislative authority.  But this is all a matter for further prayerful reflection&#8211;KSH.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of weaknesses of ACC, Donald Coggan called first meeting of Primates. This has been crucial in helping people understand one another and work on issues facing Anglican Communion. It has no legislative power \u201d\u201d it is a consultation. Anglican<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9910\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,71,74,67,389,75,64,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-instruments-of-unity","category-lambeth-2008","category-windsor-report-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}