The Secretary General urged engagement with the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals and spoke kindly of GAFCON as a reform movement, while inviting its members to next summer’s ACC Meeting.
Ndukuba called the election of Vann, a partnered lesbian, “an abandonment of the faith.” Shehata, a member of the commission for “good disagreement,” said it “risk[s] rendering our efforts fruitless.”
Christopher Wells brings our series on the Nairobi-Cairo Proposal to a close, calling for opportunities of encounter by which strangers can again become friends.
The task of indigenization and inculturation - making the universal local while still globally recognizable - is the next step beyond the current configuration of the Communion Instruments.
For over a century, the Anglican Communion has been de-confessionalized, reduced to institutional relationships via the Communion Instruments. Given this reality, the IASCUFO recommendations are generously made.
Upholding Catholic and Apostolic faith and order, the Nairobi-Cairo Proposals recognize a global communion of churches whose leadership should shared by people from different regions and contexts.
The Nairobi-Cairo Proposals have a specific purpose, but Ephraim Radner discerns that they are built on a sweeping vision of the church that has beauty and persuasiveness.
