Conservative Anglicans to officially announce schism next week

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Jerusalem, Jun. 20, 2008 (CWNews.com) - Conservative Anglican prelates, meeting in Israel next week in an alternative to the Lambeth Conference, will announce that they can no longer remain in communion with the Church of England, the London Daily Telegraph reports.

The Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), convened by African Anglican bishops, will essentially announce a schism in the Anglican communion, according to the Telegraph story. The conservative bishops will say that there is no realistic prospect for retaining unity among the world’s Anglican leaders because of grave disagreements on doctrine and practice.

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I was just reading through the document.
It sounds like a manifesto on one hand, on the other it sounds like an attempt to compose a credo…to restate their credo…

Somebody give the the CCC. Some of their questions are answered very well in there. But reading them, it looks like dispite all readings they may have done in their whole life, they never stumbled on our beautiful Catechism.

Truth is so simple and beautiful. I am alwasy amazed on how the CCC tells the whole Truth of faith and moral in just explaing the credo and the 10 commandments, and the our Father. Isn’t the Holy Spirit just amazing?
And some people are working their heads up to make some cosmic documents…risking all kind of scripture twisting…
 
“Therefore, as a body we deeply regret the actions of the Diocese of New Westminster and the Episcopal Church (USA) which appear to a number of provinces to have short-circuited that process, and could be perceived to alter unilaterally the teaching of the Anglican Communion on this issue. They do not. Whilst we recognise the juridical autonomy of each province in our Communion, the mutual interdependence of the provinces means that none has authority unilaterally to substitute an alternative teaching as if it were the teaching of the entire Anglican Communion.
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That a quote from the Primates’ meeting in October 2003 at Lambeth Palace, also quoted by one of the speakers at GAFCON. It reminds me of what General Turgidson said in Doctor Strangelove:

President Muffley (Peter Sellers): General Turgidson, I find this very difficult to understand. I was under the impression that I was the only one in authority to order the use of nuclear weapons.

Turgidson (George C. Scot): That’s right sir. You are the only person authorized to do so. And although I hate to judge before all the facts are in, it’s beginning to look like General Ripper exceeded his authority.
 
At the press conference Iain Baxter of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM) from the UK asked the Archbishops how they reconciled their faith with their support for jailing lesbian and gay people, which had led to cases of rape and torture.
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He also asked why they had refused to speak out against such incidents which had taken place in their respective countries.
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In response Archbishop Peter Akinola said that he was not aware of any such incidents anywhere in Africa. He also said he was unaware that anyone had been imprisoned for being gay or lesbian.
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When given the example of a lesbian women from Uganda who had applied for asylum in the UK after being jailed, raped in the police station, and marched for two miles naked through the streets of Uganda, Archbishop Akinola said: “That’s one example. The laws in your countries say that homosexual acts, actions are punishable by various rules. I don’t need to argue.”
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Rolltide said:
Jerusalem, Jun. 20, 2008 (CWNews.com) - Conservative Anglican prelates, meeting in Israel next week in an alternative to the Lambeth Conference, will announce that they can no longer remain in communion with the Church of England, the London Daily Telegraph reports.

The Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), convened by African Anglican bishops, will essentially announce a schism in the Anglican communion, according to the Telegraph story. The conservative bishops will say that there is no realistic prospect for retaining unity among the world’s Anglican leaders because of grave disagreements on doctrine and practice.

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sorry, guys, no schism.

reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL2968936420080629

They opted not to break from the AC.

sorry to disappoint you.
 
This is great news. I think if it works out it gives the TAC a natural place to go.

Negotiaitns with Rome and the TAC seemed to be going nowhere and even if some TAC memebers came over I expect it would have lead to a spintering of TAC into a number of groups and ultimately a disaffected minority would probably have given up on Chritianity.

I am sure the African Anglican bishops will now be in a position to approach TAC - if they have not done so already.
 
rien said:
This is great news. I think if it works out it gives the TAC a natural place to go.
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There’s just one problem.

TAC considers itself to be catholic.

The GAFCON Anglicans are evangelical Protestant in inclination (with a smattering of charismatics). They would NEVER think of going to Rome, and have little in common with those who would consider it.

Gerry
 
^^ I’m not certain, but I believe the GAFCON contains both high-church Anglicans and evangelical Anglicans.

I agree with your point, however, that GAFCON and TAC might not be similar enough to think about getting together.
 
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