Saturday, February 26, 2005

Canadian archbishop: Anglican split 'a matter of time'

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Anglican split 'a matter of time':
"Conservative Anglicans had been angered by the Canadian's decision to bless same-sex marriages and the ordination of openly gay bishop Gene Robinson in the US."

This is a train wreck many of us have seen coming for a long time. The balance of power in the Anglican communion, as with some others, has been shifting away from Europe and the largely white nations toward Asia, Africa and other regions. The churches in these nations, especially among their non-European members, tend to be highly orthodox in their views and are not afraid to fight against modernism and liberalism on theological doctrines and church government issues. While many of us had once hoped that this demographic trend might drag the modernists and liberals back from the abyss of heresy and schism, that appears less and less likely.

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