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Will the Church Survive

2006· article· en· W301551777 on OpenAlex
John F. Woolverton

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Bibliographic record

VenueAnglican and Episcopal history · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAmerican Constitutional Law and Politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEucharistLawAppealSociologyDiscernmentDemocracyConventionReligious studiesTheologyHistoryPolitical sciencePoliticsPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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Will the church survive? Divided 5-4 in court, legislature, diocese, synod, conference, and presbytery, many Christians in America fear the future, not least Episcopalians the endurance, among other things, of our own church. Can Anglicanism in America any longer hold on as a single denomination? The answer to this question lies with the General Convention of 2006. This journal offers a special pre-convention issue which rehearses the histories of four converging themes: our reputation abroad; sexual conduct and life styles; race relations; and the authority of scripture. varying degrees each of these has contributed to the impasse in which we all, unhappily one hopes, have found ourselves since Minneapolis 2003. And the four subjects are interrelated. Incontestably the twentiethcentury Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s gave rise to an expansion of participatory democracy and the demand greater equality both women and homosexual persons. Scripture's authority in turn was tested and reinvigorated when African Americans drank deeply from the springs of biblical discernment. Women followed nearly as convincingly. Had not Paul in one of his better moments (not 1 Corinthians 11: 1-16!) declared that there was neither male nor female for you are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28)? After that the appeal to the Bible became problematic. Christians who were homosexual asked the question, as our essay herein has it: In Christ There is No Gay or Straight? Minneapolis provided one answer. It proved unacceptable to many. This issue of Anglican and Episcopal History is shaped around these themes. We are not here to debate them, but to present historical articles of quality, regardless of the politics or conclusions of the authors. Alfred A. Moss of the church's Historical Society points out, as our national Episcopal Church and the global Anglican Communion fragment over a range of theological issues-sexuality being one of them-scholarly publications such as Anglican and Episcopal History and learned societies such as the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church will need to maintain a posture that allows Episcopalians and Anglicans of divergent attitudes to come together civil discussion -without ultimatums. The model such deliberation has been the willingness of various branches of American Lutherans, Missouri Synod included, to do both, as we witnessed to our astonishment during the joint Anglican-Lutheran Conference in Chicago in June of 2004. It was a week of sustained historical reflection on the part of both Anglicans and Lutherans. Good will and continuing cooperation has produced joint publication of the papers given at that important and inspiriting conference. The first essay in this issue is by our international editor, Grant LeMarquand, a New Testament scholar and professor of missions from Canada. Readers will recall his masterful editing of the special issue, Essays on the Anglican Church in the Sudan (vol. LXXI, No.2, June 2002). LeMarquand reflects on how the election of Bishop V. Gene Robinson disturbed a great many people in the church in Africa. For these churchmen and women community and the importance of collective decisions were breached by the American church's action. Robinson's election to them was one more example, the author judges, of unilateral American imperialism. addition the international editor would set some perspectives straight, e.g. African Christians are not just black people who think like Episcopalian traditionalists or other American Christian conservatives. LeMarquand's essay is no more unfair in its interpretations and conclusions than pieces written by supporters both of Robinson's consecration and of full ministerial equality homosexual persons in the Anglican Communion and other Christian bodies. Those electing Robinson at first in New Hampshire and then in the national church's General Convention chose to go it alone apart from consideration of the traditions and sensibilities of fellow church people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. …

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