Gays, greed and biblical orthodoxy by Jon Kuhrt I have watched with interest the reactions to Stephen Kuhrt’s article about the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCAUK) and its role within the controversies about gay and lesbian relationships within the Church. Stephen called for “a careful, nuanced and loving engagement with the issue, its complexities and … Continue Reading
Problems with the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans UK by Stephen Kuhrt pre-published, with permission, from The Church of England Newspaper, 16th October 2009 First of all I’d like to express my thanks to the Church of England Evangelical Council for this invitation to address it on the issue of The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans United … Continue Reading
The Church of England and Islam: Hospitality and Embassy – Theologies of Religion in Process 4. Generous Love – 2008 and Beyond by Richard Sudworth Part IV of IV (see parts I, II, III) The final point of analysis for this study will be the 2008 report, Generous Love: the truth of the Gospel and … Continue Reading
The Church of England and Islam: Hospitality and Embassy – Theologies of Religion in Process 3. Initiatives of the Church of England By Richard Sudworth Part III of IV (see parts I, II, IV) For many years, the Church of England was content to focus national initiatives on relations with Islam through ecumenical groupings, and … Continue Reading
People must come first: there are many ways of being Conservative Fulcrum Newsletter, September 2009 By Dr Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne Co-published, with permission, with Comment is free belief, Guardian online, 11 September 2009 By plotting a graph of the expansion of the monasteries throughout the Middle Ages we might easily have concluded that … Continue Reading
The Church of England and Islam: Hospitality and Embassy – Theologies of Religion in Process 2. Lambeth 1988 and 1998 By Richard Sudworth Part II of IV (see part I, III,IV) It is with the Lambeth Conference of 1988 that a more systematic attempt was made to order Anglican interfaith relations and to provide a … Continue Reading
The Anglican Covenant: Shared Discernment Recognized By All The Reverend Canon Professor Christopher Seitz The Reverend Dr Philip Turner The Reverend Dr Ephraim Radner Mark McCall, Esq The Rt Reverend Dr N T Wright Bishop of Durham 3 September 2009 The following is an excerpt from an article that was published on the Anglican Communion … Continue Reading
The Church of England and Islam: Hospitality and Embassy – Theologies of Religion in Process 1. Pre-Lambeth 1988 by Richard Sudworth Part I of IV (see parts II, III, IV) On October 13th 2007, an unprecedented range of Muslim scholars and leaders issued the document A Common Word between Us and You1 to representatives of … Continue Reading
Federation Isn’t Enough: Only Communion Properly Reflects the Spirit of the Church Fulcrum Newsletter, August 2009 by Graham Kings Bishop of Sherborne and theological secretary of Fulcrum copublished, with permission, with Comment is free belief, The Guardian online, 5 August 2009 Desmond Tutu has often talked of the crucial support of the Anglican Communion when … Continue Reading
Rowan’s Reflections: Unpacking the Archbishop’s Statement by the Bishop of Durham, Dr N.T. Wright (in collaboration with ACI and Fulcrum) discuss this article on the forum thread Introduction 1. In the two days since the Archbishop released his ‘Reflections’ on TEC’s General Convention, they have already generated widely differing responses. We always knew, say some … Continue Reading