The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Advent Letter
Key points:
“Unrealistic and ungrateful to expect more from TEC in terms of clarification”.
No primates meeting - “I also intend to convene a small group of primates and others, whose task will be be, in close collaboration with the primates, the JSC, the Covenant Design Group and the Lambeth Design group, to work on the unanswered questions arising from the inconclusive evaluation of the primates to New Orleans and to take certain issues forward to Lambeth”.
The Archbishop therefore has declined the strong requests from CAPA and the Global South to hold a Primates Meeting. Yet he writes: “the refusal to meet can be a refusal of the cross”.
The letter gives status to the Lambeth Conference as “a meeting of the chief pastors and teachers of the Communion seeking an authoritative voice common voice.” AM website asks if this is really the case, why is the deliberate and public flouting of Lambeth 1.10 allowed to continue? Yet the letter also says “argument continues about about exactly how much force is possessed by a Resolution of the Lambeth Conference.”
The question “was left open as to whether the Bishop (Gene Robinson) as a non-participant could conceivably be present as a guest at some point or at some optional event”.
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December 14th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
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