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TH E LIVINGCHUR CH magazine is published by the Living Church Foundatio n, Inc. The his toric missio n of the Living Chu rch Foundation is to promote and support Catholic Anglicanism within the Episcopal Church. APRJL 4 lOIO · THE I IVING CHURCH 3 80-tzd OA,/4- CHO IR news CHAIR Liturgist: Don't Lose 'Balanced Eucharistic Piety' Making th e Holy Eucharist the ness , the embodiment of God's great normative worship service in Epis merc y to those who were und eserv copal churches has creat ed a chal ing and unworth y sinners , and were lenge of retaining the Eucharist's invited to the Lord's table only profound sense of holines s, said the through his gift of grace. In the 1979 Rev. Dr. Patrick Malloy, professor of liturgics at the General Theological Seminary in New York. "We are closer now to what Cran "Every time a group mer had intended; in 1979 it seems that what Cranmer wanted to have gets together you don't with FIBRE RUSH SEAT happ en actually happ ened," Malloy said March 12 as part of Virginia have to have a Mass." Since 1877 Theological Seminary 's ser ies, "The R.Geissler.i Inc. Prayer Book at 30." Dr. Malloy Thomas Cranmer ( 1489-1556), 2641 E. Greystone Ct. the martyred Archbishop of Canter Eagle, ID 83616 Phone: (800) 862-3159 bury who wrote and compiled the www .rgeissler.com first two editions of The Book of prayer book , he said, that sense of Common Prayer, wanted laity - not God's great merc y and the unwor just priests - to participate in the thiness of his people is embodi ed in Holy Eucharist regularly , as was the Eucharis tic prayer of humbl e done in Jesus' tim e. access , which begins, "We do not "The 1979 prayer book has gotten presume to come to this thy Table, 0 expeRrencea us back to our Reformation roots and merciful Lord, trustin g in our own to our ancient roots," Malloy said. righteousness , but in thy manifold Life-chanGinG Returning to early Christian roots and great mercies. We are not wor is beneficial and can help parish thy so much as to gather up the prLGRimaGe ioners know that they, as well as crumbs und er thy Table." priests , can draw near to the holy, "The prayer of humb le access , in2010! Malloy said. He cautioned, however, from what I can see, has fallen on that with more frequent celebration hard times ," Malloy said. "Now that I've of the Eucharist some reverence and Malloy said he wished the 1979 travelledwith humility, the "balanced Eucharistic prayer book used a word other than Illuminated piety" that should attend the sacred, celebrant for the priest who leads Journeys, the way I may have been lost. the Holy Eucharist , because it can travelhas "I cannot read your so uls, so I be interpreted to distanc e members foreverchanged " don't know if the fact that the of the congr egation , who are also -Ca rol fromChicago Euchar·ist is now the norn1ative Sun ce lebra nts. Using celebrant is a Contemplative day patt ern has changed people ," "hug e mistak e," he said; using Ireland: Malloy said. "Cranmer did not tak e presid er (for one who leads) would A Pilgrimage Communion lightly. Today, I fear have been better. that sometimes ... many of us do Sept. 18- 0ct. 1, 2010 approach the sacra ment very Liturgical Heritage Call now for a brochure lightly." 720489.8073. Toll free 877.4 89.8500 [email protected] Malloy emphasized that Cranmer While Euchar·istic-centered wor For moret ravelan d retreat wanted a profound sense of God's ship can give parishioners a sense of opportunities.vis it ourWeb site www .illuminatedjournevs.com mercy to draw people to church; the being one with Christ and one with Eucharist was the pinnacle of holi- (Continu ed on page 6)
4 TH E LIVING C IIUR CH · ill'Rll. 4. 2010 Canon Glasspool Wins Consents A March 18 stateme nt from Lam beth Palace has expresse d the Arch bishop of Canterb ury's conce rn about the confir mation of the Rev. Canon Mary Glasspoo l as a bishop suffragan of Los Angeles. "It is regretta ble that the appeals from Anglican Communion bodies for cont inuing gracious restra int have not been heeded," the stateme nt said. "Furth er consultation will now take place about the implications and consequences of this decision." On the day her approva l as a bishop-elect was made officia l, Canon Glasspoo l acknowledged the mixe d response her elect ion has prompte d among Anglicans across the world. She said in a statement release d March 17 that she was "aware that not everyone rejoices in this elec tion and conse nt, and will work , pray, and co ntinu e to exte nd my own hands and heart to bridge those gaps, and stre ngthen the bonds of affect ion among all peo ple, in the name of Jesus Christ." Glasspool was elected Dec. 5 to be one of two bishops suffragan for the Diocese of Los Angeles. The other, the Rev. Canon Diane Jard ine Bruce, was elected on Dec. 4. They will be consecrated together on May 15 in a service led by Pres iding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori. Glasspoo l received sufficie nt con sents fro m bishops and sta nding Follow the path of Apostles Paul and Barnabas during committees more than a month their journey on the island to preach Christianity in 45AD. Discover amazing Byzantine churches and marvel before the dead line. intriguing frescoes in UNESCO- listed heritage sites . "Today's affirmat ion of the elec Visit early Christian basilicas . beautiful monasteries and tion of a supe rbly qualified cand i museums of Byzantine art . In Stavrovouni monastery. date as a bis hop in the Episcopa l you will find piece of the Holy Cross and in Kykko Chur ch is goo d news not ju st for monastery the icon of Virgin Mory, whose painting those who wor k for the fuller inclu was attributed to Luke the Evangelist. Enjoy a spiritual life in this Mediterranean heaven. sion of the LGBT baptized, but for The>y~ar round island the whole churc h," sa id the Rev. www .visitcyprus.com David Norgard , president of Integrity, a nonprofit organization of Cyprus Tourism Organization, 13 East 40 th Street, New York, NY 10016 lesbian, gay, bisex ual, and tra nsge n Tel: (212) 683-5280 E-mail: [email protected] der Episcopa lians.
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each other - thus building up and stre ngthening the body of Ch1ist - Malloy cautioned that it would be a sham e to diminish other liturgical services, such as those of the Daily Office. "We have made the Eucharist so normative on Sund ays that we must be careful not to lose the rest of our liturgica l Christi an heritage," he sa id. "We kept alive a liturgy that in many parts of the world was utt erly lost. . . . I am shocked that when seminarian s come to se minary, they do not know how to say the Daily Office. That is a great loss in our chur ch. I don 't think that's what Cranme r meant." Asked by TLC how congregations can mainta in a sense of reverence and balanced Eucharistic piety, Mal loy suggested that when congrega tions gather at other times for meet ings and dinners, they not routinely The AmericanStudy Program celebrate the Eucharist. Oxford,England "Every time a group gets together you don't have to have Mass," he 4 August - 10 August 2010 sa id. If the group wants to have a service, he said, it can use Morning "Christianityin the 21st Century" Pra yer, Noon day Pra yer, Evening Is there an order for the universe and meaning to om· existence? Prayer or Compline. Locatedat historic St. EdmundHall , this unique conference offers lectures as well as Moving from Morning Prayer to ample time to enjoy the universitycity and surroundingareas. Euchari stic -centered worship was Cost: $1800 the most visible of severa l results of Includes room, all meals, moming coffee, afternoon tea, and extms. the 1979 prayer book, said the Rev. ConferenceSpeakers: Dr. Geoffrey M. Price, interim rec The Rev'd. Dr. John Kerr:Priest of the Churchof Englandand former Warden of the tor at Abingdon Chur ch in White Society of OrdainedScientists . Dr. Kerr has taughtat Oxfordand WinchesterCollege , Marsh, Va., who spoke after Malloy. and is currentlyEpiscopal Chaplain to the College of Williamand Mary. Eu charistic-centered wors hip has The Rev'd. Dr. VincentStrudwich : HonoraryCanon of ChristChurch, Oxford . Fellow of blurred the differences between KelloggCollege , Oxford, 1\1torin Theologyand VisitingProfessor of Graduatel11eological "high church" and "low church," and Foundation. has made services more ecumenical, Price said. The VenerableChristopher Hewetson: Former Vicar of HeadingtonQuarry ( the C. S. Lewis Pri ce agree d with Malloy that parish) and now serves as ArchdeaconEmeritus Diocese of Chester. today pari shioners can feel much Mr. Ian Boxall:Mr. Boxall is Senior NewTestament le cturerat St. Stephen's House and a more a part of a sacrame ntal life as memberof the theologyfacult y at OxfordU niversity. they parti cipate in the Eucharist as Registmtion Deposit: $300 (non refundable) a shared experience. He cited lay Contact:TI1e Rev 'd. Dr. LadsonMills Eucharistic ministers as evidence of more participation by the laity. 4261 HauloverDrive , John's Island, SC 29445 "Today's se rvice is like an orches Phone:(9 IZ) 577-8688 E-mail:[email protected] tra in which we all have a role to
6 Hf E LIVIN G CHU RCH · APRIL 4. 2010 play," he said, and this model of wor churc hes in Scotlan d, England and Court Schedules Date ship has bridged the "rigid gulf' that Wales," the archbishop said. once separated the laity and the The Episcopal Chur ch's Holy for Bennison Appeal clergy. He also said that the 1979 Wonien, Holy Men: Celebrating the The Court of Review for the Trial prayer book contains enrichi ng Saints - formerly known as Less er of a Bishop has schedul ed a one-day Eucharistic prayers, as well as Feasts and Fasts - designates Feb. session to hear the appeal of the Rt. enriching readings from the Old Tes 21 as a feast day for Newman. The Rev. Charles E. Bennison, Jr. tament and the New Testament. 76th General Convention approved The review court will convene at Still, the prayer book requir es Holy Women, Holy Men in July 2009. (Cont inued on page 21) occasional revision. "Over time liturgy tends to lose meaning; it's like a ship that needs righting," Price said. He added that liturgi es need to Visit the Sacred Sites accommodate changing ways of life. In the past, he noted, people wor shiped in small churches with grave of New York City ~ Here, in a city that shimm ers with yards bedside them , so a funeral and committal occurred together. Today, sanctit y, are peo ple of man y faith a memorial service and committal tradition s and places wh ere, for th em, often occur at different times. God is pr ese nt. Here, Go d is Price said he wonders what effect encou nt ered and rememb ered. the digital revolution will have on I have begun to journ ey as a p ilgr im liturgy: "Will there be leather-bound to sacred sites in New York C ity. Kindles with the liturgy? Will prayer book revisions be an Internet down Throu gh th e Sacred load?" Sites of New Yor k C ity Peggy Eastma ,n pil grima ge, I invit e you co jo in me. Togeth er, may we grow toward s Cardinal Newman's The God. Beatification Set General Rev. K. Jeanne Perso n During Papal Visit Theological Direcior of 1hc Ccn1cr for Chri s1ian Spirituality Th e Genera l Theo logical Seminary Queen Elizabeth II confirmed ,z Seminary March 16 that she has invited Pope .~,,;;. of 1hc Episcopa l C hu rch ------Benedi ct XVI to visit the Unit ed Kingdom in September. General Theological Seminary During the visit, set for Sept. 14- ----. 19, the pope will be received by the .., ~I,. Queen at Buckingham Palace; meet - J l1. • -:1/ft.. with the Archbishop of Canterb ury • - .'It , - t. -=J •' at Lambeth Pala ce; and preside at a J II I beatification service for John Henry Cardinal Newman at Coventry. Archbishop Rowan Williams issued a brief statement that welcomed con firmation of the papal visit. "The pope's visit will be an oppor tunity to cement ties not only between the Holy See and the United Kingdom but also the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian
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These steps, worn low by centuries of pilgrims, ascend to where the shrine of Thomas Becket stood in the Trinity Chapel. Berkely Divinity School photos
For the past five years, the senior class of Berkeley one another. In that spirit, the cathedral's Interna Divinity School at Yale has made its own pilglimage to tional Study Centre each year hos ts a conference for Canterbury during the cold, quiet winter month of Feb seminarians from all around the Communion, and ruary. Journeying to where countless millions have one for new bishops. Canterbury thus serves as a come before, we are always taken aback by the deep place where at a pivotal moment in the emergen ce sacredness that seems woven into the very fabric of of new ministerial vocations, individuals discover this cathedral church. firsthand that our communion should preclude sep On one hand, we are struck by how wounded the aration. building is. There is the site of the violent martyrdom In the Berkeley Divinity School Rul e of Lif e, which of Thomas Becket in 1170, and the eeli ly empty space where his shline once stood before it was destroyed by sets forth the contours of our academic and spiritua l Henry VIIIin 1538.There are missing windows, where the formation , the Canterbury pilgrimage is desclibed as Puritans poked them out with their pikes in a vain the climax of a thr ee-year cycle of retreats intended attempt to suppress the Catholic faith. Or there is the to lead students toward a deep vocational identity round stone tablet in the floor at the rear of the nave, formed within the body of Christ. In the first year, commemorating the firewatchers who duling WorldWar students go on a monastic retreat that emphasizes II protected the building from the incendiary bombs the communal nature of prayer. In the second year, rained down on Canterbmy by the Gem1an Luftwaffe. they ent er into the Ignatian exercises to discover the Yet Canterbury is also a place of great peace as a site importance of an intense personal identit y with that has been saturated by prayer for more than 1400 (Con tinued on next page) years, sine~ the time of St. Augustine's arrival in 597. One is struck by how the very stones of the cathedral seem marked by the continual presen ce of faithful, praying people. The steps to Becket's tomb have been worn low by passing travelers and knees of pilgrims mounted. The sense of sacredness also emerges from the stories that one hears told of the daily, persistent prayer that marks this place: stories such as of the night of the worst bombing raid during World War II, when all feared that the cathedral had been struck down. Yet when dawn broke, the bells rang once again , and th e cathedral clergy and people began to say the morning office as on any other day. As seminary students and faculty of the Episcopa l Church, our purpose in going on pilgrimage to Can terbury is at least twofo ld. First , we want to encounter the long historical trajectory of Anglican Christian life which it represents , and to enliven our own sense of the deep spiritual tradition to which we are heirs. Yet we also come to Canterbury to catch a glimpse of the current global breadth of the Angli can Communion, and to feel our tangible bond with oth er Anglicans around the world, vividly repre sented by the Compass Rose embedded in the cen ter of the nave floor. Canterbury is a meeting place , a chur ch and city where for gen erat ions Christians have come and recognized a sense of belonging. As Dean Robert Willis likes to say, Canterbury belongs to us all, and that sense of belonging also means that we belong to The nave and choir screen, leading toward the high altar.
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(Continued from previous page) Jesus. The Canterbury pilgrimage in the third year brings these two elements together: we pray daily together, in an environment the stated purpose of which is to show us the Christ. How does an operation as big as Canterbury Cathedral claim to do such a thing? In the first instance, every member of the cathedral commu nity is noticeably conscious of welcoming the stranger as a pilgrim, a guest to be received in the Benedictine manner as if one were receiving Christ himself. The genuineness of the hospitality is unmis takable. Each day in the cathedral precincts also has a rhythm that speaks powerfully of the sense of mis sion that pervades everyth ing. The day starts quietly with matins, followed by Holy Communion. Then the gates open wide, and visitors begin to pour in. Some are indifferent, some awestruck. Some are on school trips, some returning home after many years. All are received with grace and welcome. Berkeley Divinity School seniors on a tour of the cathedral. As the day begins to draw to a close, the commu nity gathers again for prayer - this time Evensong sung by the choir, including very intentional and been gathered up to dwell in God, and God in them , specific intercessions for the Church and world. The with an unwavering constanc y. One senses a lesson cathedral echoes for a time with the vibrant sounds to be learned by the ordinariness of it, a patience to of psalms and canticles, and then after the evening be cultivated, a courage to be discovered. office it gradually falls back into the quiet watch As part of our pilgrimage each year, we are blessed that it keeps over the city through the night. The to be led on a candlelight tour of the cathedral by the striking of the bell as the precincts gate closes marks dean . He tells us about the importan ce of the differ the end of another day, but somehow there is in the ent spaces in the building: the very public nave, the tolling a great sense of anticipation that God has quiet meditati ve crypt, the ecclesial gathering space already prepared the day to come. in the quire. There, in the hushed dark of the night, From this daily rhythm, a certain confidence takes the sense of safe enclosure where one might find hold of one's psyche that is unlike anything one feels Jesus is beautifully spoken in a prayer from the in the usual frenetic pace of life. Walking around the cathedral's "Office for the Greeting of Pilgrims": cathedral, one sees reminders everywhere of the passage of time; there are the simp le markers We rejoice, here in this place, in the fellow remembering Dunstan, Lanfranc, Anselm, Ramsey, ship of Thomas and all the Saints of Canter Runde. Yet rather than feeling heavy and ponderous bury. We join in their prayers and the prayer as many such memorials do, these simple remem offered day by day in this holy place. We pray brances seem woven into a fabric of continuity that for the renewal of commitment, for the deep reminds one of how very practical and ordinary the ening of faith and the assurance of knowing Anglican tradition is, and yet how also very rich and your loving, 0 God; through Jesus Christ our beautiful. Lord. Amen. Canterbury is neither a vestige of a medieval court, as S. Pietro in Rome, nor a church stripped of its The Very Rev. Joseph Br itton is president and sacramental mystery, as St-P ierre in Geneva. Rather, dean of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, a sem it i~ ::i ~pa<'0 wh0re orrlinary m e n a nd women havP inary of th e Episcopal Church .
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Lessons from the Past, 100 Years Later The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 By Brian Stanley. Eerdmans. Pp. 384. ISBN 978-0-8028-6360-7.
By George Sumner Stanley is helpful in pointing out that, while Edin burgh 1910 is remembered as the mom ent when rian Stanley is the Director of the Centre for common mission gave the impetu s to a common Bthe Study of Christianity in the Non-Western ecumenical imperat ive, the actual achievement of World at the University of Edinburgh, and so is the the conference was more limited, namely a wider most approp1iate person to write The World Mis sphere of global missionary coop eration. But an siona,ry Conference, Edinbitr gh, 1910. It is a metic event may be known in its "hlstory of effects" as well ulou s, accessible, and theologically insigh tful as its self-understanding. Edinburgh 1910, with its account. It is doubly worth reading since the cen Continua tion Committ ee, led to the International tennial of the conferen ce will see a gathering called Missionary Council , and this in turn to the World Edinburgh 2010. Coun cil of Church es . Even in its greatest effect the While all hlstori cal moments are fraught , some conferen ce, for all its self-cons cious impor tance, moments are more equal than others, and the par brought about something it did not itself imagine. ticipants trave ling to Edinbur gh by trai n and ship in Stanley paints in strong colors a picture of the 1910 had a stro ng sense that they were atte nding an politi cal and social assumptions of the conference. event of decisive significance. It was see n as a sum At its outset, after a lett er from His Majesty was mit of strategic consequence at a time when the tri read, the whole gathering (Americans included), umph of Christian evangelism worldwide seemed a stood and sang "God Save the King." Throughout the goal one could speak of. (Stanley is careful to note deliberations the parti cipants took as a given a hier that it was, in fact, less than a truly "world mission archy of racial developments whlch should make the ary conference," since Roman Catholics and Ortho contemporary reader uncomfortable. Likewis e in dox were not present, and Two-Thirds World Chris the commission on relations to the state there is no tians themselves were badly und err epresented). questioning of the colonial enterpri se itse lf, only John Mott, whose fan1ous watchword was "The discussion of how best to relat e to it. Evangelization of the World in Thls Generation," led Amid these more painful features of that era, there one of the conference's commissions , and even Ran was also, it should be pointed out, a consistent goal dall Davidson, the Archbishop of Canterbury and of promoting churches that were, in the jargon of the the initially reluctant openin g speaker, could allude Church Missionary Society (and of today 's state to the consummation which that evangelization has sanctioned Chinese Chur ch) , "three-self': self-prop tened. To be sur e, the theological m ake up of the agating, self -finan cing, and self-gov erning. (And , as confer ence was complex, with more sc holarly and a fine contemporary generation of African Christian theologically libera l as well as evangelical voices historians is pointing out, thls goal was realized with repr esented, especially in th e commission on rela African Ch1istians as its primary agents, quite aside tions to non -Christian religions. (Continued on next page)
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(Continued from previous page) and horrendous persecution. from some of the pr esuppositions of their mission Likewise the growth of the Chur ch in India has ary forebea rs) . had little to do with dialogue with Hinduism, but more to do with the mass movements of the sched Three Witnesses uled castes in conscious rejection of things Hindu Three Christian lead ers provide a way of inter ( conversion s which , surprisingly , were the spar k for preting the conference a century later. The first is the chur ch growth movement in North America). from one of the galvanizing moments of the confer And who at Edinburgh could have guessed that a ence itself. A young Indian Anglican priest nam ed cent ury later scholars would debate whether global V.S. Azariah had worked for the YMCA in South Pentecostal chur ches were the new "mainline"? India with J.H. Oldham, one of the conference's main Stan ley identifies the key concept from which organizers. He would later be consecrated as the missiological reflection moved at Edinburgh 1910, Bishop of Dornakal , the first Anglican prelate in namely the contrast betwee n the Christian West and India . (An exce llent biography , Susan Billington the non -Christian East. The intervening century has Harper's In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V.S. effectively broken this concept down in all its terms. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity The conference was held on in British In dia,, appears in the sa me The 191 O conference the verge of the slaughter of series as Stanley's book.) Azarial1 was a was held on the verge suppo sedly European Chris great friend of his missionar y colleagues, tian nations that was World with whom he worked coop eratively of the slaughter War I. One of the conference's throughout his caree r. But at the conclu of supposedly European main organizers, J.H. Old sion of his address to the conference he Christian nations that ham , spoke of Western cul spoke these words containing a searing ture becoming increas ingly Paulin e rebuke: "You have given your was World War I. "mate rialis tic, vulgar, fever- goods to feed the poor. You have given ish, and unsat isfying": what your bodies to be burn ed. We also ask for love. Give would Oldham make of cultur e in 2010? us friends!" Amid the reports and the strategies, Similarly, one speaker descri bed the low level of Edinburgh 1910 achieved its greatness in part with catechetical knowledg e to be found among African such a moment of Christian candor. converts (specifically their ability to arti culate the Among the student pages at the conferen ce wa s meaning of the creeds, Lord's Prayer , Ten Com one William Temple, later to be the famous theolo mandm ents, and Small Catechism) , a level which , if gian and Archbishop of Cant erbury . It was he, our attribu ted to our contemporar y North American second witness, who spoke in a sermon a generation church, would flatter us. In short , in the turmoil of later of the "great new fact" of Christianity , namely our time, we cannot speak of a "Christ ian West ," the truly global natur e of the faith, a fact whose and , as the lucid researc h of a scholar like Philip dimensions have only grown in the interve ning half Jenkins shows, the extent to which we are Christian century since the Archbishop coined the phras e. is often aided by non-Western immigration. But the dramatic emergence of this fact did not take More on the mark was the premonition at Edin place accorcling to any plan or expectation one might burgh of the challenge ofls lam. The commission on have registered at the Conferen ce. other religions tried to offer a liberal model of "ful In fact, if ther e is a consist ent law of modern mis fillment" of other faiths in Christianity, but had some sion studies, it is one of surprise, a historical proof what to admit that suc h a model was hardest to con of the divine sense of humor. Africa, neglect ed by ceive of with respect to Islam. And the extent and Edinbur gh 1910, has turn ed to Christ , but often in vehemence of radical Islam could hardl y have been forms (e.g., the East African Revival) or with atti imagined then and there. The participants likewise tudes (e.g., reject ion of the mission chur ches, as in could not have imagined that a century late r the the African independ ent chur ches) unanti cipat ed greatest missionary -sending nation s would be South by the missionari es themse lves. Participants in the Korea and Nigeria, though they would in theory have conferen ce hoped especia lly for a great emergence applauded the development. of Christia nity in the East, and this see ms to be on The witn ess of our third witness is not in a single the way in China, but only on the far side of the cat sentence or phrase , but rather in the totality of his :=wlysm of rcvo ]uf"io n , fo rcibl e 0j0ction of mi ss ion s, life. Lesslie Newbigin was born not so many miles
12 TH [ I.IVING Ct-lURC I I · Al' IU L 4. 20 10 south of Edinburgh , six months before the confe r ence, and he was ordained in the city a quarter of a cent ury later. He emerged from the evangelical cul ture familiar to the missionary movement to serve for half a century as a missionary in south India. In short , he was a child of the world of Edinburgh 1910. But his subsequent career helped to instigat e all the great themes of modern missiology, and hence much contempor ary rethinking of the Church's life. He was instrumental in the merger that creat ed the Chur ch of South India. His book Househol d of God, written by a Calvinist, prompted a more serious mis sionary pneumatology, even as the Pentecost al movement came to prominence. He contribut ed to the post-World War II movement beyond mission as individual conversion or church planting to the rnis sio Dei, "the mission of God." He first saw the challenge to the Western Enlight P.TOMKINSNisitSco1l>1ncl/SCO'ITIS H VIEWPOINT enment worldview as a missiological question . As A view tow ards Edinburgh Castle and 1he Old Town from Holyrood Park. the World Council of Churches drift ed leftwa rd , he maintain ed a witness to the finality of Jesus Christ as the last century has held. I cannot know what the against the currents of plurali sm. Finally as a pastor commiss ions of the centen nial conference this sum- late in his life in Birmingham he saw that the ques mer will say. But one can guess that they would do tions of context and multicultur e were to be found well to bear in mind the witness of that great closer to home than the West had in1agined. Mission adopted Edinburghian Lesslie Newbigin, lest in the driven ecumenism, rnissio Dei, postmodemism and name of mission the newest kind s of Weste rn con mbsional , religious pluralism, and contextualiza fusion, swept out the front door , snea k sevenfold in tion: these were in significant ways the issues of the back. Lesslie Newbigin, presbyter of Edinbur gh. We must talk as peers to our neighbor religions, And these are also the issue s before Edinburgh with a deep humility and receptivity, but without 2010 (www.edinbur gh2010.org). Compare the list of surr endering the finality of Jesus Christ, whose cross commissions which will do their work at the cen is the source of that humility. We must admit the tennia l conference: foundations, other faiths , post postmodern situa tion we find ours elves in, without modernity, power , forms of missionary engageme nt forgetting that everyo ne contends for some "meta (No1th-South relations), theological educat ion, com narrative " on the basis of which they would organ munity in context , unity, and spirituali ty. These are ize all. Awareness of power and class should lead not the issu es of the great-grandc hildren of Edinbur gh to a self-absorbing guilt, but to actua lly listen ing to 1910, following the commissions in many respects, our Two-Thirds World fellow Christians and watc h but also correct ing for its myopia and refrarn ing its ing what is happ ening there. zeal for a new day. They deal with legitimate issues Yes, the mission is God's, but this must not become of the missionary endeavor, wherever we may find it: a warra nt for ident ifying that mission with what What is its deepest motive? Don't our divisions make ever we espo use in the secu lar wor ld. The herut of less sense far from the time and place of their origin? that mission has been revealed once and for all in the How can the one gospel go auth enticall y to a multi death and resurre ction of Jesus, and the proclama tude of nations? What do our neighbors of other tion of that new and saving reality to the nations in faiths teac h us? Don't we need to conside r ques anticipation of the End. We need to be wise as ser tions of power and class when the gospe l goes from pents in understandin g how best to summon each of 1ich to poor , or the other way around for that matter? those nations , but innocent as doves too in gathering But of course future histo ry will show us to have them together as one reco nciled Body. had our own myopias, born , as in 1910, of our own The idea that each nation must contribu te to the cultmal captivity. And mission history may well have cultura l "catholicity" of the world Chur ch, an idea as many wilikely proofs of the divine sense of humor (Cont inu ed on next page)
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(Continued from previous page) Anglicans Against Apartheid, 1936-1996 derived in part from the romanti By Bob Clarke. Clust er Publ ication s Pietermari tzbur g. Pp. 594. $5 0, softcove r. cism of the 19th century, articulated ISBN 978 -187505373 -5 . Availab le from www.clusterpublica tions.co.za by Anglo-Catholics like Bishop Charles Gore at Edinburgh 1910, has Religion and Politics in Kenya been a staple of Newbigin's thought, Essays in Honor of a Meddlesome Priest according to which the nations can Edi ted by Ben Knighton . Palgrav e Macmillan Pu blishers. Pp. 294. Hardco ver, $84.95 . ISBN 978-0- 23 0-61 487 - l. thereby test one another's "contex tualizations." But are we ready truly 'I\vo new books on the important this is mostly new ground.) for such testing, when it tells us roles of Anglicanism in modern John Cheswort h writes on interac something we don't like? In short, African life provide fresh windows tions betwee n Christianity and Islam the agenda of Edinburgh 2010 is in into the complex local situations of in the Kenyan political arena . John larg e measure Newbigin's "unfin provinc es with growing importance Lonsdale , Galia Sabar, and Paddy ished agenda," and thos e who gather throughout the wider communio n. Benson wiite on the degrees to which would do well to hear the echo of Robert Clarke's Anglicans against Archbishop Gitari engaged with poli his clarion witness of the interven Apartheid tells the story of the impor tics through his very public sermons ing century. tant and significant involvement of in support of pro-democracy move Let us clos e with something Stan members of the Church of the ments in Kenya Julius Gathogo and ley points out at the very beginning Province of Southern Anica in resist Jacqueline Klopp turn their attention of his work, as he describes the ing and opposing the South African to the church's role in providing guid landscape for the confer ence of government's Apartheid system. Bas ance during inter-ethnic violence dur 1910. It grew out of a vigorous evan ing his work on wide personal expe ing the last two deca des. Without gelical culture with a zeal for mis rience within the province , Clark e drawing sharp distinctions between sion closely connected to theologi incorpora tes int erviews and recol winners and losers in Kenyan poli cal commitments , shared by many lections of major figures in a straight tics, this interesting book does sketch who were giving and praying for the forward narrative format. He pays out the critically important work of missionaries back at home and in close attention to familiar figures .Archbishop Gitari in opposin g cor the service of which those mission such as Joost de Blank, Trevor Hud ruption durin g the presidency of aries were ready to die. That is the dleston , and Desmond Tutu. Daniel arap Mai, and in establishing soil from which the missionary But the richn ess of this book an independent , influential - and movement, and later the conference, comes from Clark e's attent ion to the continuing - voice for the Anglican spra ng. It is the world that produced contributions of lesser-known Angli Chur ch. an Azariah, and a Newbigin too. cans in the anti-Apartheid movement. Both books offer accounts of very For all the movement's failings, In particular, he brings out the lower different local churches tl1at do not those were the qualities which made profile work of the lay novelist Alan act only in the familiar channels of it possible , and which mattered Paton ( author of Cry, the Beloved support for or opposition to govern most, by the grace of God, to its suc Country) and Robert Selby Taylor ment. In the South Afiican situation, cess. We can , and should, note their (1909-95), whose long life included there is a church walking a fine line errors, and we do well to gat her tenures as Bishop of Northern Rhode between survival and its Christian again, a cent ury on, to see what sia, Pretoria, Grahamstown, Central commitmen t to justi ce in society. In forms the pressing business of mis Zambia, and Archbishop of Cape the Kenyan context , a church offers sion in our time takes. But no con Town. its own stea dy vision of faith and ference, no matter how well planned Ben Knighton's collection of papers socia l activity while governments and executed, can be a substitute focused on the episcopate of David change around it. Each path has built for the soil, whose tilling and tend Gitari (Archbishop of the Anglican in complexities outside the scope of a ing are part of the work of renewal Chur ch of Kenya, 1994-2006)offers a review. But these books provide sub and restoration before us all. window onto connections between tle and detailed treatments that go far religion and politics in eastern Africa. beyond the journalism that is the The Rev. Ccinon D1: George Sumn er In nine essays, individual authors more usual source for readers' infor is Principal and Helliwell Professor examine the archbishop's involve mation about Anglicans in eastern of World Mission at Wycliff e Col ment in many aspects of 20th-century and southern Africa. lege, Toronto, Canada,. life in Kenya. (There is helpful intro Richard J. Mammana, Jr. ductorymat erialfor readersto whom New Haven, Conn.
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Catholicism, Part 4: Covenant (i) Perhaps most striking about the introduction to the and read by all; ... written not with ink but with the Anglican Covenant (tinyurl.com/AnglicanCovenant) Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but is that it neither mentions nor alludes to Anglicans, on tablets of human hearts" (2 Cor. 3:2-3). This is the Anglicanism, or the Anglican Conununion until the "form" of life in the Church, the Covenant says: a fourth paragraph. Why? Apparently bec ause the divine "faithfulness, honesty, gentleness, humility, Covenant Design Group wanted to emphasize that pati ence, forgiven ess, and love itself, lived out in the Anglican family can only be understood theologi mutual deference and service," as a revelation of cally when placed within a larger context, nan1ely, "the manifold wisdom of God" (Eph . 3:9-10) to "the God's call of the Church "into conununion in Jesus hostile and divisive power of the world." Christ (1 Cor. 1:9)," as the very first sentence affirms. To be sure, that invites the question of how well The text begins, therefore, with a trinitarian theology the message is articulated sometimes, or whether of the - one, Catholic - Church as communion , the we are able to communicate the whole of the mes Holy Trinity being the God of all Christians and the sage, as we await the transformation of "the body of singular Lord of his Body. our humiliation " (Phil. 3:21). Even covena ntal This call of God into communion is moreover Catholicism, therefore, must accept what it has been "established ... for the whole of creation (Eph. 1:10; given and start from wherever we have been set 3:9ff.)," as the second paragraph continues. And so down - "not proclaiming the mystery of God in we see why Catholicism - each and every version of lofty words or wisdom" but choosing instead (and it, in every would-be "Catholic" tradition - must be what alternative is there?) "to know nothing except covenantal: because God's mission in history is to Jesus Christ, and him crucified" (2 Cor. 2:1-2). restore in "all humankind" the divine image. The The promise of a pecu liarly Anglican Covenant for word covenant means to agree, assemble, summon , the whole Chur ch should especially subsist in this unite (from the Latin convenire). God's election of the latter register of humility, recalling Michael Ram Jews , "through covenants made with Noah, Abraham, sey's suggestion that the chief "credential" of the Israel, and David," ther efore served a universal pur Anglican church is pose, finally fulfilled in the "new covenant" in Christ Jesus, into whom "we are baptized, and empowered its incompleteness , with the tension and the to share God's communion ... with all people, to the travail in its soul. ... For it is sent not to com ends of the eart h and of creation." God, throughout mend itself as "the best type of Christiani ty," human history, has been in the business of overcom but by its very brok enness to point to the uni ing rebellion and division in order to call together - versal Church wherein all have died. Hence its convoke and convene - a holy communion of new story can never differ from the story of the life in his Son. Corinth to which the Apostl e wrote . (The The nan1e of that holy communion is the "one uni Gospel and the Catholic Church, p. 220) versal Church, which is Christ's Body, spread throughout the earth" (para. 3). And it's worth Pressing in just this dire ction, 2 Corinthians in emphasizing that the very mission of the Chur ch is hand, the final paragraphs of the introduction to the tied up , intrinsically, with her unity; the Covenant Covenant introduce what is called later in the text cites Ephesians 2: 12-22 to prove the point: that the "the ecumenical vocatio n of Anglicanism" (2.1.5), Church is a reconciled Body of Gentiles and Jews namely, "a particular charism and identity" of the made "one new humanity" in Christ. Anglican Communion to "give ourselves as servants Unity is therefore not an optional extra that we of a greater unity among the divided Christians of might wish we had, but in the absence of which we the world" (paras. 4 and 6). can get on with the work we have been given to do How precise ly this is to be done, through the in this or that denominational outpost, perhaps with development of a more articulate and focused Angli a view to future reco nciliation (or not) . No. The can Catholicism, is the burden of the remainder of Christian Church is already, always, and only "one the Covenant text , which I will unpa ck in the fifth Body through the cross" (Eph. 2:16), so that we our installment of this series. selves are the message, as Paul says, "to be known Christopher Wells
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By James Tengate nga feelings I have, and I suppose you do too: feelings of joy and trepidation at the same time in tl1eonerous task of hat a task it is to preach on such a well known proclaiming the gospel entrusted to us. W passage [Matt. 28:18-20] and talk about the This is the privilege of telling the story after the Anglican Communion at the san1e time. I hope to go event with the advantag e of hindsight which Matthew one better and talk about Jesus while doing it. is exploiting her e. This is the story of Immanuel , God Talking about the Anglican Communion- isn't it a with us: the ever present Christ who is also the Christ wonder that we still have a gospel to preach? Many a who is "seate d at the right hand of the Father in time I have wond ered what this is about and where it heaven ." Jesus begins by claiming all autho1ity - is we are headed. which should be a reassrning thing, especi ally having ... I have found that many think it is this view or just defied death and the grave. He tl1en goes on to give that view. "Sex or no sex? Or even wha t kind of sex? a charge to the disciples "to go ... make disciples of all Orthodoxy or innovation? Blessing or not blessing, nations ... baptizing and teaching." ordaining or not ordaining?" And all the power games Now this is the guy who has done that and gotten involved. When I hear all these I tend to th.ink that we himself into trouble. Granted, he has given them a have made it all about us. It is not about us or even foretaste of what it is like to be sent out to proclaim tl1e about "them." It is about God. And there is a gospel to good news of the kingdom of God when he sent some proclain1. of them to do sinillar things earlier in his ministry. Not I cannot help but think of the prophet Elijah and only does crucifixion happen when you do this; the how, even when he had made his point and "demon field for you to cover is even widened to includ e all strated the power of God," he could run away and hide nations. And then this veiled goodbye, it's all yours! and think he is the only one left. The beleagu ered Adios amigos! Maybe it is just a reassman ce that he prophet who found himself believing that he was the is not going anywhere - not soon at least. But as we only one left "with a gospel to proclaim ," and the only know from tl1e other gospels, he was going to leave place left for him to go was the mountains where he them. However, he does assure them that he is going hoped to survive only for a while and in the end die or to be witl1 them to tl1e end of the age. I suppose it was be killed by Jezebel. a clever way of reminding them that he is Inunanuel. There are tin1es when I think God has no sense of Is that consolation enoug h? I believe that Jesus humor. God says to Elijah, No sulking here, don't be believed it was, and from later stories of tl1e disciples childish. Get out of here and get on with it. There are and apostles, it seems that they got the message. more of you out there than you can count. It's not St. Paul, a later convert to this band , talks about about you and not about your life but about God, wlw preaching in season and out of seaso n and being in and God is and God's place in the universe . No Jezebel or out of trouble for doing so and recounts the many any powers or principalities can get in the way of the calamities that befell him. The proclamation of the gospel; only yoit and your fem: So go on, get out of gospel is an uncomfortable place to be. That gospel is here cind get proclaiming. not about us. It is the gospel of Jesus Chlist. As Paul How I wish I were the one who wrote that bit of would say, "We preach not omselves but Jesus Christ Scriptme! crucified." Anyway, what has this to do with today's gospel? The domestication of the gospel we see all around We have a bele<1ocrueredbunch of disciples. Confused, us and about which we have many a mea culpa to dispirited, wondering what will become of them now recite is the problem. We have made it our gospel, om that their teacher (and possibly Saviour) is gone. As you truth, om little clique's version of it. can tell, I am also stretching the Matthew story here, Is the truth we have been charged with not bigger but such is the context of the gospel's resurrection than that? Is the Jesus who has given us the task not natTative. I also hear another asswnption in this part of tl1e same Immanuel ? What are you doing here in yom Matthew. It is not specifically spelt out, but this sounds little mountain feeling alone? Sometin1es I get the feel very much like a farewell speech rather than a "Hello, ing that we are too obsessed with protecting and pre I atn back!" I am convinced that this "double tongued" serving om vers ion of Anglicanism, that we lose sight (helloand goodbye)conve rsationbrings together the of the task of proclaiming the good news. Identities are
16 TI IE LIVIN GC II URCII · Af'RIL 4.2 010 PROCLAIM important, and I think Anglicanism is important and uniquely placed in God's plan for the evangelization of the world. But I also believe that the gospel is bigger than Anglicanism or any other denomination. We are to proclaim the gospel - yes in our Anglican way; but not as beleaguered cliques of its expression but as con fident witnesses of the saving and end wing pow er of Jesus, the Immanu el. My brothers and sisters in the Anglican Communion, we have a gospel to proclaim. All authority is with Jesus Christ, and he has charged us with a task It may be that we believe that in our fractiousness we are doing it, but I am convinced there is a better way. Fractiousness is about us and not about God. The gospe l is about God in Christ reconciling the world to himself and through the Holy Spirit empowering us to do the same. Fractiousness and entrenchment in our ( as you say in Texas) "Judie hos" of orthodoxy or lack thereof isn't. I am persuaded that we are in danger of derailing the nlission of God in Chlist by our behavior and contentiousness, and thus doing the opposite of the charge given here in Matthew. The gospel is at Resurrection. Raffaelino del Garbo, 1510. stake . Jesus Christ is at stake. It is not about us! We are behaving as if "all autho1ity has been given Jesus begins by claiming all authority to us and our clique" and Jesus no longer features. The - which should be a reassuring mountains are beckoning for those who would rather nm. Self-serving holding on to what is understood to thing, especially having just defied be Anglican seems to be what gives comfort to others, death and the grave . and for yet others it is political suaveness. Where is Jesus in all this? If only we can focus on him who was it has nm out already. It is time to focus on Jesus and and is and is to come, we may "have a gospel to pro turn to hin1 in repentance, saying: "Fighting within claim." Tllis may sound very naive and too simplistic and fighting without but O Lamb of God, I come : I a solution to our comp lex strugg le. But as Jesus come." Once we have our eyes on Jesus we can preach prayed: "Thank you, 0 God, for you have revealed nothing less. "We have a gospel to proclaim" and the these truths not to the wise but to the children and Lord is with us even "to the end of the age." "Go there innocent." fore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them Back to the Elijah imagery - it was not in the thun in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the der and fireworks that God spoke. Bob Dylan lends his Holy Spilit and teachi11gthem to obey everything that wisdom: I have commanded you," says he. It is not about you "No reason to get excited ," the thief he kindly but about Jesus Chlist and him crucified. spoke. And now to hiln who was, who is and is to come be "There are many here among us who feel life glory on earth and in heaven. Even so, come, Lord is but a jok e Jesus! An1en. But you and I have been tlu·ough that, and tllis is not our fate. The Rt. Rev. James Tengatenga, Bishop of Soidhern So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is Malawi, was elected President of the Anglican Con getting late." silltative Council in May 2009. He preached this sernwn on March 6, during a special convention of Tin1e for om games is running out. In fact I believe the Diocese of Dallas.
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ut. ""°"'"\.now ~ ...... \"""!' ..u,,1 • ...... ,~ Sunday's readings I Easter Day (Year C), April 4, 2010 ~~ 'Free Thine Own in Glorious Liberty' "In fact Christ has been raised from the dead" (1 Cor. 15:20a). BCP: Acts 10:34-43 or Isaiah 51:9-11; Psalm 118: 14-29 or 118: 14-17, 22-24; Col. 3: 1-4 or Acts 10:34-43; Luke 24 : 1-10 RCL: Acts 10:34-43 or Isaiah 65:17-25; Psalm 118: 1-2, 14-24; 1 Cor. 15: 19-26 or Acts 10:34 -43; John 20: 1-18 or Luke 24: 1-12 TI1elesson from the 65th chapter of that world. One has a picture of a rav and a new eruth," which culminates in Isaiah begins, "I am about to create aged, spoiled world, cratered, Jesus' statement , "Behold, I am making new heavens and a new eruth." In this twisted, and deformed not only by all things new" (Rev. 21:5). all-encompassing affirmation can be the abundance of individual sins but The completely fitting and proper found all the rantifications of the res by an entire lands cape of rebellion response to the risen Jes us is pro urrection of Jesus. against God that caused the defiant vided by Mary Magdalene , the first Jesus' resurrection was most defi world to careen toward ultimate and person to see him newly 1ise n from nitely not for hin1 alone, nor solely for utter ruin. And inde ed that world "did the tomb, when she cries out in inti his bereaved followers, nor just for its worst" to its Redeemer, applying mate recogn ition and adoratio n , his generation, nor even for all of its most powerful weapon against "Rabbo uni! " (Jo hn 20:16). The word humanity. The resurrection of Jesus him - torturous death, the trade contains the entire gospe l in one is the hub, the heart, of the new des mark attribute of a corrupt race. And word, for it means, "My master!" The tiny of the fallen cosmos. it wasn't enough. Jesus' resurrection one from whose lips and heart it The ninth century hymn that begins, is the all-effective counter to a world bursts discerns and proclaims in "Creator of the stars of night" puts it infused with horror and death. heartfelt love that she sees the One this way: "To thee the travail deep was The same hymn pleads , "Redeem us who is the source of un bo und ed, known that made the whole creat ion for eternal day." The gospel proclaims uncontainable life, love, and joy and groan till thou, Redeemer, shouldest that the plea has been answered. Isa who is the grou nd of all sure hope: free thine own in glorious liberty. " iah's prophecy, "I am about to create the Redeemer and Renewer of all that The san1e hymn presents a picture new heavens and a new eart h" is fur had been eterna lly and irreversibly of "the old world" drawing on toward thered and confirme d by the descrip stained with death and despair, bu t night in the age when Jesus entered tion in Rev. 21:1, "I saw a new heaven which has now been made new.
Look It Up I Think About It What had Mary Magdalene's life been like before What signs can you see in the natural world and in ordinary, daily she met Jesus? See Luke 8:2. human commerce that point to the resurrection? Next Sunday The Second Sunday of Easter (Year C), April 11, 2010 SCP: Acts 5:12a, 17-22 , 25-29 or Job 42:1-6; Psalm 11 1 or 118:19 -24; Rev. 1:(1-8)9-19 or Acts 5:12a, 17-22 , 25-29; John 20:19-31 RCL: Acts 5:27-32; Psalm 118:14-29 or Psalm 150; Rev. 1:4-8; John 20:19-31
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20 T HE LIV ING C HURCH· ArRIL 4. 20 10 news flscensionI Episcopal School Inspired to achieve. !Continued from page 7) AscensionEpiscopal School in Lafayette,Louisiana, is seekinga FoundingChaplain to servea PreK3-12parish school. The Chaplain will havethe opportunity to nurtureand care 9 a.m. May 4 at the Cathedral of St. for 800families in the heartof CajunCountry. Duties of thisfull-time, ordained Chaplain will include: John , Wilmington, Del. The bishops • Worship: preaching, planning,and leadership of weeklyworship who serve on the court will hear two and Eucharistservices. hours of oral arguments. • PastoralCare: personal visitation and counseling In Jun e 2008, the Court for the of the school'sfamilies and faculty. Trial of a Bishop ruled that Benni • Facultyand Administration: overseeing the implementation son, Bishop of Pennsylv ania since of religiouscurriculum, limited teach ing,and school-wide 1998, should be deposed for con participationand responsibilities. duct unbecoming a member of the • ChristianLeadership: as priest,spiritual guide , pastor, clergy. andteacher while adhering to the classicteachings The case concerned how Benni of theAnglican tradition. son responded when learn ing that • CommunityService: promotion of outreachopportunities to schooland community . his younger brother, John, had begun sexual relations with a parish ContactInformation: The ReverendJoseph Daly, Rector, Episcopal ioner of St. Mark's Episcopal Chmch Churchof the Ascension,1030 Johnston Street, Lafayette, LA 70501 [email protected] in Upland , Calif., when she was a minor. Charles Bennison was rector of the parish. His brother was on staff as youth minister.
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