Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Conflicting memories of Lambeth 1998

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/?p=1675

[Anglican Mianstream] 16 May 2007--As Lambeth approaches the way seems to be being prepared for overturning Lambeth 1.10 by suggesting the process that gave it birth was flawed.This is a far more significant development than it might initially appear. If one rewrites the historical past, one can then change the present and influence the future. And in fact, this is a well-known method of challenging an unwanted, conservative status-quo and happens all the time in ‘progressive’ intellectual realms. Archbishop Ndungane of South Africa was the chair of Section 1 of the Lambeth 1998 Conference in which the sub-section on Human Sexuality met. He has written of his memories of Lambeth in a speech that was given in South Africa on May 8th and now placed on the Anglican Communion Website. Read here. Bishop Colin Bazley, the former Presiding Bishop of the Southern Cone, has responded in an article on the Anglican Mainstream website. Read here

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