{"id":478,"date":"2008-09-12T17:36:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T21:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=478"},"modified":"2008-09-12T17:36:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T21:36:51","slug":"ephraim-radner-at-the-entmoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/ephraim-radner-at-the-entmoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Ephraim Radner at the Entmoot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Truthful Language and Orderly Separation<\/strong> – of the wheat from the chaff in the Anglican church.<\/p>\n

I’m sure Ephraim in a lovely bloke with wonderfully good intentions. The trouble is, he and the rest of the ACI <\/a>\"\"are ponderously slow to act, suffer from logorrhea of such proportions that no normal person can read an entire article without becoming comatose and live in an ivory tower so high that they can no longer find their way down.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, there does seem to be a tiny change of direction. Ephraim, while taking a very long view, acknowledges that separation is inevitable – although he still isn\u2019t in favour of it – and wants the separation to be orderly (he doesn’t really say why) and, that\u2019s where the ACI comes in: to make it orderly.<\/p>\n

At least, I think he is saying that.<\/p>\n

Trouble is, by the time the ACI is actually geared up for action, it will all be over.<\/p>\n

Insomniacs can read it all here<\/a><\/p>\n

Written by: Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner
\nTuesday, September 9th, 2008<\/p>\n

The Bishop of Winchester, the Rt. Rev. Michael Scott-Joynt, recently aroused comment when he [said], \u201cI continue to see a negotiated \u2018orderly separation\u2019 as the best and most fruitful way forward for the Anglican Communion. The experience of this Lambeth Conference [\u2026] has again convinced me that the Anglican Communion cannot hold in tension convictions and practices that are incompatible, and so not patent of \u2018reconciliation\u2019, without continuing seriously to damage the life and witness of Anglican Churches\u201d. It was this reference to \u201corderly separation\u201d that struck many as significant, coming as it did, not from the bigoted reactionary that some have wrongly made him out to be, but from a bishop who has steadfastly stood for and offered witness on behalf of the imperative and blessings of ecclesial Communion among Anglicans. His admission that such an \u201corderly separation\u201d may be necessary at this time is significant because, in fact, he has worked hard for unity and believes in it. It is this kind of admission that should spur us to hard thinking.<\/p>\n

Indeed, I do not want such a separation. I pray against it\u2019s demand\u2026 But I agree that the sheer practical dynamics of the situation we are now in may well uphold Bp. Scott-Joynt\u2019s views\u2026
\nWhat, therefore, shall we do? I offer the following conclusions \u2013 as well as the preceding reflections \u2013 not to attack current directions being followed by Communion leaders and offices of various persuasions, but rather to point out the need to face challenges that have become increasingly visible.<\/p>\n

At the least:<\/p>\n

We must allow our categories of discussion, policy, and strategy as a Communion (and hopefully within member churches) to reflect and respond to the reality we confront:<\/p>\n