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The Anglican Communion and Bioethics

1991
This essay describes developments in Anglican thinking on selected topics in bioethics that have appeared since 1992. It highlights a variety of documents published by the member churches of the Anglican Communion or their judicatories in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Scotland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Wales.
Judith A. Granbois, David H. Smith
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Canon Law in the Anglican Communion

1998
Norman Doe
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Authority in the Anglican Communion

Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 1999
The Church was not founded at Pentecost, as is sometimes said, but by Christ during the course of his ministry in Galilee and Judea. It was he who appointed the twelve to become what today, perhaps, would be called teaching officers, and who commissioned the seventy as a corps of evangelistic missioners.
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Moving the Anglican Communion

2016
This chapter explores Anglican ethical and ecclesiological responses to migration under such headings as hospitality to the stranger and justice. Following an historical discussion of Church of England responses to refugees, the chapter argues that two motifs—incarnate responsibility and strange grace—lie at the heart of Anglican moral responses to ...
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Mission in the Anglican Communion

2016
This chapter discusses the development of Anglicanism through mission and argues that mission is essential to the church’s existence and flourishing. It proposes that the church’s mission has two aspects: the deepening and revitalization of the lives of those already within the Christian community, and the extension of the Gospel beyond the boundaries ...
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The Anglican Communion: Does it Exist?

Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 1998
The title of this article is deliberately provocative: what meaning can be attached to a concept which lacks all the classic jurisprudential marks of authority, by those who concern themselves with the legal aspects of Anglican churches? Conversely, what lessons can be learned by them from the very persistence of such a concept over so very many years?
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The Anglican Patrimony in Catholic Communion

2021
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Anglicanorum Coetibus, Tracey Rowland gathers together leading voices to examine the issue of the Anglican Patrimony and its relevance for Christians today. The Anglicanorum Coetibus is the 2009 papal decree which established the Anglican Ordinariate within the Catholic Church, and this volume examines the ...
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Anglican Communion in Crisis

2009
Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi INTRODUCTION: A Communion in Crisis? 1 CHAPTER ONE: Renewal and Conflict: The Episcopal Church and the Province of Uganda 23 CHAPTER TWO: Taking Africa Seriously: The Globalization of Conservative Episcopalians 47 CHAPTER THREE: "White Hands Up!" Lambeth 1998 and the Global Politics of Homosexuality 71 CHAPTER FOUR ...
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Anglicanism: Confidence, Commitment and Communion

Journal of Contemporary Religion, 2014
Within our rapidly changing culture, is there any point to the Anglican Church? In a world that is variously described as post-Christian, post-secular, and post-atheist, there are times when Anglic...
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Conflicts Within the Anglican Communion

2014
The churches of the Anglican Communion discussed issues of sex and gender throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. Arguments about gender focused on the ordination of women to the diaconate, priesthood, and episcopate. Debates about sexuality covered polygamy, divorce and remarriage, and homosexuality.
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