Violence and Communion: Why the World Looks to Anglicanism, Or Will Pass It By

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[Anglican Communion Institute] 20 Sep 2007--This talk was originally given in January, 2007 at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, at a continuing education conference on the future of the Anglican Communion. As the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops meets during these days to assess their own relation to the Communion, and the Communion's leadership - either together or in smaller, more localized or even autonomous groups - seeks to respond and chart their own way forward as a Communion or as something else, some of the elements discussed in this talk seem to be pertinent: will Anglicanism be an instrument of God's providential work for peace, in Christ Jesus' power, within a fragmented world? or will she submit to that world's own dynamics of violence? Who will be the beneficiaries or the victims of these choices? What responsibilities do the societies - and churches - of the West and of the Global South owe each other and themselves in the answering of these questions?