tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post209601112947978000..comments2024-03-27T08:46:54.369-04:00Comments on BabyBlueOnline: Monday, May 4 Update: Inside the Anglican Consultative Council in JamaicaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17490745238430648958noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-25166888975451161292009-05-05T10:10:00.000-04:002009-05-05T10:10:00.000-04:00"They are also allowed to retake their seats in or..."They are also allowed to retake their seats in order to engage in such lobbying while in defiance of requests of the communion about abandoning lawsuits, while those who have defied the request on cross border jurisdiction (soon to become a dead letter when ACNA is formed in six weeks time), are denied the right to exercise their own choice of who their delegate at the meeting is."<br /><br />Will border crossing really become a dead letter in six weeks with the formation of the ACNA? First, the revised provisional constitution and revised proposed code of canons of the ACNA adopted on 4/25/09 make no room in the ACNA for conservative evangelical Anglicans who do not subscribe to its decidely partisan Catholic doctrinal position on the historic episcopate and apostolic succesion. The particular form of church government and modes of episcopal and primatial selection they adopt raise significant theological and ecclesiological barriers for not only conservative evangelical Anglicans but also other orthodox North American Anglicans who value a synodical form of church government, the practice of a diocese electing its own bishops and the substantial involvement of the clergy and laity of the diocese in the nomination and election process, and nomination and election process, and a primatial nomination and selection process that gives the clergy and laity more than a token role. There continues to be a need for intervention but in the ACNA. Second, the revised proposed code of canons makes provision for founding entities to remain subject to the constitutions and canons of their parent Provinces and for these Provinces to play a substantial role in the governance of such entities and the selection of bishops for these entities and for the archbishops and bishops of parent Provinces to sit in the College of Bishops in an advisory capacity.Robin G. Jordanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09511384478845569163noreply@blogger.com