A very good point!  As a thorough-going devotee of the principles of the 
American Revolution, I most often in cultural matters vote for a movable 
balance between "authoritarian communitarianism" and pure "individualism" 
...religious expression, of course,  representing what I consider my deepest 
culture.  Historically informed, I confess a very definite bias for 
minimally regulated "bottom up"individualism--read that the "free market" of 
ideals as opposed to "top-down" fiat, i.e, "central planning."  Regards. 
KnoxDuncan@...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rev. Dr. Derrick Hassert" <cranmerandlaud@...>
To: <faithandlife@...>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:50 AM
Subject: RE: [FaithandLife] BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND AND ANGLICAN UNITY 
BY 2012


> The objection of not being in communion with Canterbury doesn't really 
> hold much water (at least with me). The Scottish Episcopal Church was a 
> "schismatic" church worshiping in barns and attics when Seabury received 
> the episcopate from them. I'd rather preserve the faith of the faithful 
> Anglicans than be in communion with the arch-druid-songster of Cantur.
>
>  DH+
>
> Michael Ward <mward@...> wrote:
>  Charles+
>
> I'm not sure what this means for the Continuum, but it may address the one
> objection that I continually hear from people in the Episcopal church: 
> "You
> aren't really Anglican because you aren't in communion with Canterbury." 
> We
> all know why we aren't, and I'm sure we've all talked 'til we're blue in 
> the
> face explaining it, but it is nevertheless the one thing that is always 
> held
> over our heads.
>
> Any idea whether or not this idea of "covenant" speaks to those outside 
> the
> official Communion?
>
> MLW+
> ==========================================
>
> New Anglican covenant begins to take shape
>
> By Bill Bowder
>
> THE OUTLINES of a sacrificial covenant that could bind
> the Anglican Communion together as a "genuinely global
> communion of interdependent autonomous Churches",
> despite its current differences, has been approved by
> the Archbishop of Canterbury and a select group of
> Primates.
>
> Dr Williams and other members of the joint standing
> committee of the Primates of the Anglican Consultative
> Council have agreed on a way to produce a covenant
> that could be in place by 2012. It would form a key
> part of the discussions at the Lambeth Conference in
> Canterbury in 2008.
>
> The details of the covenant will be drawn up by a
> design group, to be appointed by Dr Williams later
> this year. They will then be considered by bishops,
> clergy, and laity across the Communion.
>
> A working party of eight clerics and academics based
> in Britain has sketched out a timetable for its
> development and implementation, and the style of its
> possible contents.
>
> First, there would be just one Anglican covenant for
> everyone. It would be a single formula and it would
> have no opt-outs. For the purposes of the Communion,
> the covenant should be built on the idea of God's
> promise "that we shall be led to truth and unity".
> In the covenant, the different provinces and Churches
> would commit themselves once again to live together in
> communion.
>
> Such a covenant would be costly: "We do not
> underestimate the cost that being in covenant may
> exact on the Churches of the Communion," the group
> warns.
>
> For the covenant to work, most Churches and provinces
> must be able to "gather" around it. But those who
> could not, would not then have to leave the Communion.
>
> Just as the Churches had been Anglican before there
> was a Lambeth Conference, so they could be Anglicans
> without accepting the covenant. "It might be expected
> that, as time goes on, stronger presumptions of mutual
> recognition and interchangeability of ministry and
> membership would arise between those Churches and
> provinces that had signed up than those who had not
> chosen to do
> so."
>
> What could emerge was "a two (or more) tiered
> Communion with some level of permeability between
> Churches signed up to the Covenant, and those who are
> not".
>
> www.anglicancommunion.org
>
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