by Andrew Goddard, Psephizo
Andrew Goddard writes: Twenty years ago, in June 2006, Archbishop Rowan Williams wrote in his significant and still-worth-reading reflection, “The Challenge and Hope of Being an Anglican Today”
There is no way in which the Anglican Communion can remain unchanged by what is happening at the moment. Neither the liberal nor the conservative can simply appeal to a historic identity that doesn’t correspond with where we now are.
So where are we now? How, as the new Archbishop of Canterbury begins her ministry in the Communion, as we look ahead to a meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council in Belfast this summer, and as we consider, as I did in Part 1, the recent actions of GAFCON, has the Communion changed further in the two decades since Rowan Williams wrote those words and what are the possible futures?
To begin to answer questions such as these it is helpful to
- identify four broad areas of deep and ongoing disagreement,
- look back over what has happened since 2006, and
- distinguish and evaluate the 3 main distinct and competing visions for global Anglicanism.
before considering what the future might look like in the light of these. What follows is a significantly shortened summary of the fuller article available as a PDF here: Goddard Communion 3 visions final