{"id":23463,"date":"2015-10-29T18:01:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23463"},"modified":"2015-10-29T18:02:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:02:44","slug":"the-time-for-dialogue-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-time-for-dialogue-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The time for dialogue is over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanchurch.net\/?\/main\/page\/1116\" target=\"_blank\">pastoral letter<\/a>, Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, Primate of Kenya and Chairman of the GAFCON Primates Council said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My experience of this new wineskin in North America brought home to me just how much is at stake when the Primates of the Communion meet in Canterbury at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury next January. I believe this will be an historic meeting unlike anything that has gone before. There is now a shared realisation that the time for dialogue is over and there must be a decision that will settle the future direction of the Communion and free us from being dragged down by controversy and confusion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Anglican Church of Canada has set up a Commission consisting of theologians, bishops and laity to initiate a broad consultation on how to interpret <em>\u201cthe time for dialogue is over\u201d<\/em> in the light of <em>cultural context<\/em> while leaving a generous space for deep disagreement. And even mutual criticism.<\/p>\n<p>We all understand, of course, that the one thing it <em>cannot<\/em> mean is that there really will be no more <em>dialogue<\/em> because <em>dialogue <\/em>is all that is left in Western Anglicanism.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary findings of the Commission lean towards the Post-Modernist Redaction hermeneutic, where <em>\u201cis over\u201d<\/em> is a later addition caused by <a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/login.jsp?tp=&amp;arnumber=4329508&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D4329508\" target=\"_blank\">cosmic ray induced bit errors<\/a> in the memory hosting the original document. The reading should be: \u201cthe time for dialogue!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Commission will recommend a conscience clause for clergy who wish to exercise the\u00a0<em>deeply<\/em> unAnglican option of shutting up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent pastoral letter, Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, Primate of Kenya and Chairman of the GAFCON Primates Council said: My experience of this new wineskin in North America brought home to me just how much is at stake when the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-time-for-dialogue-is-over\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[2032,2326,2149,2186],"class_list":["post-23463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gafcon","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-archbishop-eliud-wabukala","tag-gafcon","tag-justin-welby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23463","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=23463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}