{"id":15994,"date":"2012-03-22T17:02:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T21:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15994"},"modified":"2012-03-22T17:02:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T21:02:59","slug":"another-heartfelt-response-to-rowan-williams-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/another-heartfelt-response-to-rowan-williams-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Another heartfelt response to Rowan Williams\u2019 retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejc.com\/comment-and-debate\/comment\/65509\/good-riddance-dr-williams\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Good riddance to Dr Williams.<\/p>\n<p>So the Archbishop of Canterbury, has finally announced his resignation. I believe the operative word is &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221;. I have long felt that the incumbent of this illustrious office has been what we nowadays call a &#8220;waste of space&#8221;. An airy-fairy academic out of touch with the feelings of common folk and a spouter of politically correct twaddle, a man of zero leadership qualities at a time when we require strong direction from the head of this country&#8217;s official religious establishment. Under Dr Rowan Williams&#8217; watch the British have been in danger of utterly devaluing their ancient Judaeo-Christian tradition, which would have been tragic for both the religious and secular alike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Poor Rowan Williams: he tried to please everyone \u2013 or, perhaps more accurately, tried to upset no-one, and, in doing so, earned almost universal opprobrium. Those who said kind things about his efforts, did so because they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk\/page.cfm?ID=710\" target=\"_blank\">his friends<\/a> and even they struggled to find something good to say about Dr. Williams&#8217; ten year quest to find unity through incoherent indaba babbling.<\/p>\n<p>From a Canadian perspective, not only did he not protest at the deposing of one of the world\u2019s most respected evangelical theologians, Dr. J. I. Packer, but his refusal to grant even a sliver of recognition to ACNA and ANiC effectively scuttled any attempt by ANiC parishioners to hang on to their buildings. The legal argument that crushed ANiC\u2019s chances went along these lines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anglican church buildings are held in trust for Anglicans to use as places of worship.<\/li>\n<li>The Anglican Church of Canada has strayed from being Anglican as defined by the Solemn Declaration of 1893.<\/li>\n<li>ANiC members hold to the Anglicanism of the Solemn Declaration and, therefore, are the true Anglicans for which the buildings are intended.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Counter argument:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anglican theology is not static.<\/li>\n<li>The Anglican Church of Canada <strong>is the only recognised Anglican organisation in Canada<\/strong> \u2013 recognised by Lambeth and the Archbishop of Canterbury, that is.<\/li>\n<li>The Anglican Church of Canada must, therefore, define what is \u201cAnglican\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The Anglican Church of Canada gets the buildings because the buildings are for the use of Anglicans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Admittedly, those of us in ANiC, including the lawyers \u2013 especially the lawyers, perhaps \u2013 who thought it might have gone otherwise exhibited a superficially charming other-world na\u00efvety, but, ultimately, it was Rowan Williams who delivered the\u00a0coup de gr\u00e2ce to any possibility of success.<\/p>\n<p>Good riddance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Good riddance to Dr Williams. So the Archbishop of Canterbury, has finally announced his resignation. I believe the operative word is &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221;. I have long felt that the incumbent of this illustrious office has been what we nowadays &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/another-heartfelt-response-to-rowan-williams-retirement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[2023,2037,2241],"class_list":["post-15994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rowan-williams","tag-acna","tag-anic","tag-rowan-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}