{"id":7068,"date":"2010-01-14T16:12:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T21:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7068"},"modified":"2010-01-14T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T21:12:39","slug":"anglican-think-tank-helps-anglicans-think-more-clearly-about-their-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-think-tank-helps-anglicans-think-more-clearly-about-their-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Think Tank helps Anglicans think more clearly about their faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

It does, really; it says so here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For 15 years the Primate’s Theological Commission (PTC) has helped Canadian Anglicans think more clearly about their faith. The current team of 12 theologians will hold their last meeting from Jan. 20 to 23 in Niagara Falls, Ont. After that, the commission will be on hiatus as the Primate discerns how best to approach future theological work.<\/p>\n

The PTC’s past work has been influential. Since 1995 it has served as a kind of think tank, offering theological insights for the Anglican Church of Canada to mull over-on sex, culture, nature, and even farming.<\/p>\n

It all began with the Book of Alternative Services. As theologians and liturgists were putting together this material in the early 1990s, they realized that important questions kept arising, such as, “how is God feminine?” and “what does it mean to have an Indigenous theology?”<\/p>\n

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, the Primate, offered these thoughts:\u00a0 “We sometimes pray that the church will never be destitute of scholars and people who spend a lifetime reading, learning, reflecting, writing and sharing their wealth of experience and expertise with the church for the good of the church. That’s what the Primate’s Theological Commission has done,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If it hadn\u2019t been for the lifetime of learning of these 12 theologians, the question, \u201chow is God feminine?\u201d may never have come up and then where would we be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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