Thursday, October 23, 2008

Open Evangelicalism, NEAC 2008 and the future of the Church of England

http://ugleyvicar.blogspot.com/2008/08/open-evangelicalism-neac-2008-and.html

[The Ugley Vicar] 23 Oct 2008--The Church of England Evangelical Council website is now advertising 'NEAC 2008' - a consultation in continuity with the previous 'National Evangelical Anglican Consultations'. Meanwhile, on the Fulcrum website, there are rumblings about whether this is going to be truly 'representative' of the current state of Anglican Evangelicalism in England.

Personally, I can't help wondering about 'karma' at this point - or at least, a possible episode of My Name is Earl!

Fulcrum was founded in reaction to the direction being taken during the organizing of the last residential NEAC, at Blackpool in 2003. An article on the Fulcrum website speaks of "the restrictive nature of the planning ... and the sharp reaction of some conservative evangelicals to the appointment of Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury".

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