Well, we hope so. The unity of the Communion has been a farcical non-unity for so long that at least some honesty might result from the latest proceedings at last. Hopefully the Windsor report has done its job, and then we can all get on and ignore it as before.
I am reluctant to comment too much on this because I find the fascination others have for communion politics wearisome (and yet at the same time, compelling in a way which brings out an ugliness in me). But, here are some encouraging words from Oliver O'D:
That there should be times of testing in which Christians are divided against Christians, and in which the question of where true Christianity lies is thrown wholly upon the reflective individual to discern, serves the final disclosure of the church itself, which has its deepest continuity in a line of faithful apostolic transmission of belief from the heart, not in any other type of institutional succession. Such events do not bring the church to an end. On the contrary, they demonstrate the truth of the promise about the gates of hell.
Ways of Judgment, p. 318
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Michael, I don't understand: is the first bit about the Anglican Communion being a farce a quote that you're reluctant to comment on, or simply your opinion?
andrew
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