Monday, August 18, 2008

Leader: The story of Lambeth ’08

http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=61604

[Church Times] 18 Aug 2008--It is troubling that, five days after the close of the Lambeth Conference, many people are asking: what did the bishops do? We suspect that some bishops fall into this group, and not just those who stayed away. Part of the rea­son for the uncertainty is that the bishops did many things. We hope that our digest of the long Reflections document will help readers to pick out the most im­portant of these.

They did talk about sexuality. They did talk about the threat of schism and the means of heading it off. The two-and-a-half weeks in Canterbury were not an avoid­ance exercise; for it was known beforehand that the Conference by itself had no authority to resolve the crisis over homo­sexuality, even had the GAFCON bishops been present. For this reason, the Archbishop of Can­ter­bury and his team devised a programme that emphasised conversation rather than resolu­tion.

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