Rowan Williams and the politics of denial

Aug 10, 2021 by

by David Virtue, Virtueonline:

The book, Peter Akinola, Who Blinks First? is shaking up the Anglican communion and now awaits global pushback, recriminations and spin. Repercussions will surely follow.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams cannot let it go unanswered. It paints him as devious, duplicitous, scheming and not the least bit orthodox on morality. It views him as scheming, wily, deceitful, and thoroughly sold out to western pan Anglican pansexuality; while trying to placate and pacify African Anglicans. At the end, it shows that Williams was more comfortable with American Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori than with his nemesis, Peter Akinola.

While Williams played his cards close to the chest, he thought he held all the aces. He thought the Nigerian Primate would blink and accept the inevitability of an Anglican universe that would accept practicing homosexuals, pursue homosexual marriage and normalize the abnormal.

He was wrong. Dead wrong. Williams underestimated the biblical tenacity of an African archbishop steeped in reform biblical thinking, and theological absolutes. Akinola is an archbishop who will not lie down for western arrogant bishops who believe they own the communion. African Anglicans are steeped in primitive forms of biblical fundamentalism, and not willing to be enlightened and informed by “superior” forms of western Anglican life.

But as it turned out, Archbishop Peter Akinola would yield to no one, he would stand his ground, take no prisoners and force Williams to declare his hand.

It worked. In the end, Williams blinked. He settled for the west and abandoned the Global South.

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