Traditional Anglicanism in America
Greg Griffith
Rowan Williams Comments on Leaked Correspondence



You can read the whole thing if you want, or I can summarize it for you:

“Yes, I wrote those letters, and while I’m not going to say I’ve changed my mind, I want to stress that I ‘accept’ the meaning of a resolution I’ve worked for the last 5 years to neuter.”

In the light of recent reports based on private correspondence from eight years ago, I wish to make it plain that, as I have consistently said, I accept Resolution I.10 of the 1998 Lambeth Conference as stating the position of the worldwide Anglican Communion on issues of sexual ethics and thus as providing the authoritative basis on which I as Archbishop speak on such questions.

That Resolution also recognises the need for continuing study and discussion on the matter.  In the past, as a professional theologian, I have made some contributions to such study.  But obviously, no individual’s speculations about this have any authority of themselves.  Our Anglican Church has never exercised close control over what individual theologians may say.

The devil you say!

There’s some yakkety-yak by some of Rowan’s amen chorus after that, then there are harumphs all around, and right then, there it is.






Posted August 08, 2008 at 9:35 pm
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