Andrew Brown: Rowan’s road to schism

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Has Rowan Williams just set the Church of England on the road to disestablishment? Or does he envision it as standing outside the central body of Anglicanism that he is trying now to erect? I have just read carefully throughhis response to the American Church's recognition of equal gay rights, and there are two things that are really striking about it. The first is familiar from his earlier struggles with the matter: a certain airy disdain for the facts of the struggle in hand and the simple mutual hatred which has driven it for the last 20 years.

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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Archbishop of Canterbury

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Posted July 29, 2009 at 3:54 pm [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. chiprhys wrote:

Andrew clearly misunderstands the nature of the proposed covenant.  It does not mean that others will dictate what will happen in your church.  It means instead that you will limit yourself, if need be, in order to maintain the more intense level of communion created by the covenant.  If you believe that God is calling you not to limit yourself then will still be a member of the Anglican Communion but not at the more intense level of the covenant.

July 29, 8:26 pm | [comment link]
2. Cennydd wrote:

Precisely.

July 29, 11:04 pm | [comment link]
3. driver8 wrote:

When a sports correspondent ends up despising everything about sport it may be time to look for a new subject area.

July 29, 11:54 pm | [comment link]
4. Mark Baddeley wrote:

Well, it is the Guardian, #3.  One might suggest that antipathy towards sport might be considered a fundamental requirement of any sports correspondent.

July 30, 4:25 am | [comment link]
5. Pageantmaster [Free Archbishop Cranmer] wrote:

I don’t bother reading Andrew Brown.  He varies from being off-base to completely wrong.

July 30, 6:16 am | [comment link]
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