tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post599250313286242781..comments2024-03-29T22:00:02.999+13:00Comments on Anglican Down Under: Crisis, what crisis?Peter Carrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-55149532823710629862013-10-16T22:09:22.993+13:002013-10-16T22:09:22.993+13:00"Prayer book revision has been driven by loca..."Prayer book revision has been driven by local incoherence."<br /><br />He's obviously read Benedicte O Aotearoa. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-89733838283551058662013-10-16T11:25:30.135+13:002013-10-16T11:25:30.135+13:00Martin Kähler a hundred years ago claimed that “mi...Martin Kähler a hundred years ago claimed that “mission is the mother of theology”. To be sure, quite a lot depends on how one then goes on to view “mission” - for as Stephen Neill once said, if everything is mission (as some seem to want, just as others seem to reduce mission to evangelism only), then nothing is effectively mission.<br /><br />Radner’s highlighting the missionary context of these remarks on MRI and Toronto 1963, which too is therefore the context of Anglican ecclesiology, is especially helpful. The key reason I suggest is that any Communion theology and praxis thereafter is suitably grounded in the very God of Mission, whose triune nature is furthermore the foundation of ecclesial communion. This is all one a piece - or should be so seen!<br /><br />That is also why the actual text of the proposed Covenant will not merely disappear: it is rightly, profoundly trinitarian, starting with the Introduction. Objectors to any serious Section 4, the stumbling block to date for some, need to finally realise too this basic reality: the triune God’s essential nature is also profoundly kenotic, with each Person desiring the Glory of the Other(s). That is, to conclude, the idea of mutual submission with real interdependence - theologically and practically, and so ecclesiologically - is de rigeur. That is, if it is duly Christian! Cries of “autonomy” are rather from ‘the world’.Bryden Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15619512328964399016noreply@blogger.com