The ensuing "Windsor Report," released on October 18, 2004, called for moratoria on the ordination of all non-celibate homosexuals and on the approval of rites for blessing same-sex "partnerships," as well as for an end to the intervention of traditionalist bishops (usually from Africa or Asia) in the dioceses of "revisionist" bishops.
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The more serious problem is that -as has become increasingly obvious since its report was published - they gave the HoB credit for clearing the Windsor/Dar bar when, in fact, they have demonstrably fallen short. That failure at New Orleans sadly means the Archbishop of Canterbury must now face even more difficult decisions than those JSC have already outlined in Part Two of their report.
Read moreHowever, the compilers held that if forms of devotion were drawn up then they must be written on the supposition that those who used them were real Christians and not false ones. In fact, a liturgy cannot be compiled on any other basis. A liturgy for unbelievers or unconverted people would be absurd and practically useless.
Read moreThe international bishop's commission was formed in 2001 to develop a document summarizing 35 years of official Anglican-Roman Catholic theological agreements, to encourage wider study of the agreements and to demonstrate how much Catholics and Anglicans share by promoting joint activities such as prayer services, study, Christian witness and social action.
Read moreThe process began at the very beginning, in the days when our Lord still walked the Galilean hills. There were many in those days who heard him gladly; he enjoyed at first the favor of the people. But in that favor he saw a deadly peril; he would have nothing of a half-discipleship that meant the merging of the company of his disciples with the world. How ruthlessly he checked a sentimental enthusiasm!
Read moreIt is hard to disagree with the Archbishop, and we must all hope and pray that his call will soon become a reality, hard as it may be to see how it can be realised in the current climate.
Read moreHowever, we know little of this progress and the earliest clear reference to Christianity in these islands is by Tertullian in AD208.
When the Diocletian persecutions swept the empire one of those caught up in it was Alban who was famously martyred in AD303. The Church in Britain was able to send three Bishops, plus others, to the Council of Arles called by the Emperor Constantine in AD304.
Read moreSo now let us examine some of the leading merits of the Church of England Prayer Book.
1. The amount of Scripture.
The first merit of the Prayer Book is the large quantity of God's Word which it contains. Very much of it consists of extracts from the Bible. A large part of the Prayer Book is the Psalter and the Epistles and Gospels. More than one half of the Church of England form of worship consists of selected passages of Holy Scripture.
2. The sound doctrine.
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