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• Title: What Lambeth Wrought (Opinion) (Lambeth Conference) (Essay)
• Author : First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 58 KB

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As the Anglican bishop Stephen Neill put it fifty years ago, "The first and burning question is naturally whether the Anglican communion in anything like its present form can survive at all." At this summer's Lambeth Conference, the much anticipated gathering of the world's Anglican bishops, the questions were no different. Oliver O'Donovan, Anglicanism's foremost moral theologian, authored a book for the occasion titled Church in Crisis, and Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, described the church as in "grave peril." They were not alone in their judgments, as one could gather simply by reading the newspaper headlines about the conference. Anglicanism, it would seem, is not well. Events leading up to Lambeth appear to bear out this thesis. The 2003 consecration of Gene Robinson, an actively gay man, as bishop of New Hampshire, along with the widespread American practice of samesex blessings, set Anglicans in fierce conflict. Several parishes in the United States have broken away from the national church, finding haven with various African and South American Anglican churches that appeared (to some) all too eager to encroach on foreign territory. The Americans struck back with lawsuits, funding battalions of lawyers with the deep pockets of the Episcopal Church and deposing several bishops who collaborated with the departing parishes. The clunky, seldom-used ecclesial machinery of Anglicanism kicked in, admonishing the Americans to stop the same-sex blessings, hold off on the gay bishops, and knock off the lawsuits, but to small effect. An entire American diocese left the church this past spring, and three more have promised to do the same.

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