Alexandrianism???
David Virtue has posted an interview with Archbishop Malango of Central Africa which is very interesting. (See link above.) If this is true and actually comes to pass the majority of what is now Anglicanism will become what might be called Alexandrianism, a realignment of Global South Anglicanism together with fellow travelers in ECUSA, CoE, etc. The center of this new communion will be in Alexandria, Egypt (known, of course, for its HUGE number of Anglican Christians).
The Archbishop also says that this mess will be sorted out before Lambeth '08. I take this to mean that if ECUSA in '06 and the Canadians in '07 don't decide in their respective synods to straighten up and fly right then the Africans are going to bring these matters to a conclusion in communion with Canterbury or without.
I'm not sure that the good Archbishop might not be bluffing here. (A hope that Griswold is counting on. This whole thing is begining to have the flavor of high stakes poker.) But in any event, these guys are serious.
What is also interesting to note is how tired the Global South is of "listening" and dialogue. Two things seem to underlie this noticable "listening fatigue." 1) The Global South folks believe that the listening is not mutual. 2) They are tired by the implication that the matter is still open. For them, listening is not about trying to decide what is right in issues of sexuality, but more of how we can be more sensitive to gay and lesbian Anglicans while affirming the traditional position nonetheless.
This would put them at odds with Rowan Williams, who has intimated that the position of Lambeth '98 is the settled position of Anglicanism for now, and that we would have to go a very long way before we could change, but might be open to revision later.
Update: Brad Drell over at Drell Descants has posted an AAC release contesting Virtue's take on Archbishop Malango's assertion of the emergence of a new Anglican communion centered in Alexandria. http://descant.classicalanglican.net/index.php?p=285#comments
Certainly not the first time Virtue has gotten things wrong.
The Archbishop also says that this mess will be sorted out before Lambeth '08. I take this to mean that if ECUSA in '06 and the Canadians in '07 don't decide in their respective synods to straighten up and fly right then the Africans are going to bring these matters to a conclusion in communion with Canterbury or without.
I'm not sure that the good Archbishop might not be bluffing here. (A hope that Griswold is counting on. This whole thing is begining to have the flavor of high stakes poker.) But in any event, these guys are serious.
What is also interesting to note is how tired the Global South is of "listening" and dialogue. Two things seem to underlie this noticable "listening fatigue." 1) The Global South folks believe that the listening is not mutual. 2) They are tired by the implication that the matter is still open. For them, listening is not about trying to decide what is right in issues of sexuality, but more of how we can be more sensitive to gay and lesbian Anglicans while affirming the traditional position nonetheless.
This would put them at odds with Rowan Williams, who has intimated that the position of Lambeth '98 is the settled position of Anglicanism for now, and that we would have to go a very long way before we could change, but might be open to revision later.
Update: Brad Drell over at Drell Descants has posted an AAC release contesting Virtue's take on Archbishop Malango's assertion of the emergence of a new Anglican communion centered in Alexandria. http://descant.classicalanglican.net/index.php?p=285#comments
Certainly not the first time Virtue has gotten things wrong.
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