Who’s NOT at Lambeth?
David Virtue has compiled a partial list of those bishops who haven’t gone or been invited to Lambeth. The list includes “Anglicans who would never be invited because they are not part of the Lambeth Conference and yet are, by any theological definition, Anglican.”
The point? “The Lambeth Conference is not the sum total of the Anglican Communion. It is now one of many networks that make up the Anglican Communion.”
See the list (which still has names being added) at VirtueOnline.
(Photo: GAFCON media team.)
St. Andrew’s draft text of Anglican Covenant flawed – GAFCON
“… An Anglican Covenant was intended as a response to a crisis in the Anglican Communion which has been accurately described as ‘a rending of the Communion at the deepest level’. Determined departures from the teaching of Scripture on human sexuality by The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada are the immediate cause this situation.
There appears no prospect of repentance from this repudiation of biblical authority on the part of either of these bodies (or from those elsewhere who have followed their lead in endorsing behaviour which Scripture explicitly forbids).
Underlying these actions is a long history of marginalising, avoiding and at last rejecting the plain teaching of the Bible. In other words, the issue which we should expect this covenant to address is one of apostasy. …”
– This response from the GAFCON Theological Resource Team points out serious theological flaws in the draft Anglican Covenant.
– See also this earlier post with links to the Draft Covenant.
GAFCON responds to the Archbishop of Canterbury
“The Global Anglican Future Conference gathered leaders from around the Anglican Communion for pilgrimage, prayer and serious theological reflection. We are grateful to the Archbishop of Canterbury for engaging with the Jerusalem Statement and Declaration. We wish to respond to some of his concerns. …”
– from the GAFCON Primates.
See also the Archbishop of Canterbury’s response to GAFCON, published on June 30 2008.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…