Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Peter Jensen: The Anglican Crisis is Over.


From Australia-


The leader of Sydney’s Anglicans, Archbishop Peter Jensen, has declared the crisis in the Anglican communion over. Jensen attended a meeting of the Anglican “Global South” group, which represents an overwhelming majority of the world’s Anglicans in Singapore in April.

The Anglican Communion has been fracturing since the election of Bishop Gene Robinson, a partnered gay man in the USA in 2003.

Jensen has in effect declared the war over. “The crisis moment has now passed” he says. “Many of the Global South provinces have given up on the official North American Anglicans (TEC and the Canadian Church) and regard themselves as being out of communion with them. They renew the call for repentance but can see that, failing something like the Great Awakening, it will not occur.

“The positive side to this is that they are committed to achieving self-sufficiency so that they will cease to rely on the Western churches for aid. That is something the Global South has been working on for some time, with success.”

The Anglican Communion has quietly, and politely split apart. There will still be Communion meetings, attended by varying numbers of member provinces, but the Global South will set up its own structures and seek financial independence.

More here-

http://eternity.biz/news/peter_jensen_the_anglican_crisis_is_over/1004290144/

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