Thursday, July 03, 2008

Senior Anglican warns Church over its 'dark-side'

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4257718.ece

[Times Online] 3 Jul 2008--A senior adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned Anglicans against making homosexuality a "shibboleth" that could result in the destruction of their church.

Canon Gregory Cameron, the top canon lawyer who helps run the headquarters of the worldwide Anglican Communion, also criticised the "dark side" of western Anglicanism which assumes superiority over Anglicans in the developing world.

In a lecture about the crisis facing world Anglicanism, Canon Cameron said that senior clerics in the Western church were in danger of adopting a NATO-style attitude of "intellectual superiority".

He criticised the US church, which donates generously to the African and Asian evangelical provinces of the Global South, for placing "implicit obligations" on the recipients of their largesse.

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