Orthodox Anglicans Deeply Divided Over Global Anglican Future Conference in Holy Land

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[Virtue Online] 3 Jan 2008--While liberal Anglicans are united in their opposition to a conference of orthodox Anglicans in the Holy Land this summer, Evangelical Anglicans from across the globe are deeply divided over whether such a conference is historically permissible, ecclesiastically justified or theologically appropriate, dividing as it is, a communion already conflicted over human sexuality and doctrinal denial.

The Rt. Rev. C. FitzSimons Allison, the former bishop of South Carolina, told VOL that plans for the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) are the most encouraging news in years. "The apparently willful reluctance to face the issue of faith as the indispensable ground for Anglican unity is finally broken. The fatal flaw of the Windsor Report was substituting the breaking of "bonds of affection" for the reality of broken bonds of faith. 'Instruments of unity' have their integrity only so far as they represent the Anglican faith."