The Rev. Irenee Beaubien, an Ecumenical Officer for the Canadian Catholic Conference, addressed Synod, and noted, with pleasure, progress towards understanding which has been made in the past decade.
The Primate thanked Father Beaubien, and added a personal word of gratitude to him for his unique contribution in the area of Anglican/Roman Catholic Relations.
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That this General Synod receives with gratitude the Agreed Statement on the Eucharist; that the Synod accepts the Statement as agreeable to Anglican teaching about the Eucharist.
1. Welcome The Final Report of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission as an important contribution to the reconciliation of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches.
2. Accept the agreed statements on Eucharistic Doctrine, and Ministry and Ordination, together with their Elucidations as consonant in substance with the faith of the Anglican Church of Canada.
3. Declare the agreed statements on Authority in the Church (I and II), together with the Elucidation of Authority I sufficiently agreeable with Anglican teaching to provide grounds for continued dialogue.
4. Support ARCIC II in its work and refer for its consideration the concerns raised in the "Report on Diocesan Responses to The Final Report".
5. Agree that The Final Report offers a sufficient basis for taking the next concrete step towards the reconciliation of our churches grounded in agreement in faith. CARRIED IN ALL ORDERS Act 56
The ecumenical officers from across the Anglican Communion met in Cyprus to work on a background paper for the bishops of the Communion when they meet at Lambeth.
"This book aims to give an account of various major interpretations of the church ... The academic name for such study is ecclesiology. .... I will concentrate on stating the positions largely but not exclusively as they exist within the Anglican Church, where the catholic, the charismatic and the evangelical coexist with the liberal and the liberationist. It is a particular concern to offer an evangelical account of the doctrine of the church, something lacking in the Anglican context for some time". -- Intro., p. [ix].
Contents: Introduction -- The historical community of Christ -- The Anglo-Catholic synthesis -- The ARCIC synthesis: Rome, Canterbury and authority -- Evangelical Anglican ecclesiology -- Faith in the city : radical ecclesiology -- Essential Anglicanism : orientation for the future -- Index.
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