The Anglican Church reiterated its anti-discrimination stance and backed the federal government's bill to protect homosexuals from discrimination in a letter written by Jim Boyles.
Article presents reservations from the Catholics and opposition from the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada.
"On 25 November 2003 Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, met with the Reverend Canon John L. Peterson, Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council, at the offices of the Pontifical Council. At the meeting the future of Anglican Roman Catholic dialogue was discussed, especially in the light of recent developments within the life of the Anglican Communion". It was decided that the next meeting of the International Anglican Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission (IARCCUM) founded in 2001, and its work toward the publication and reception of a Common Statement of Faith, would be postponed. The current work of the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC), which began in 1970, will proceed until the completion of its current phase in 2004.
"Report of the ad hoc sub-commission of IARCCUM presented to the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams and to the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Walter Kasper, June 8th, 2004".
The Ecclesiological Sub-Commission of IARCCUM was set up by the Rowan Williams and Walter Kasper "to address the ecclesiological concerns raised by the event [i.e. the episcopal consecration of Gene Robinson in New Hampshire]" -- p. [2].
Includes bibliographical references.
"44. We have tried to show how the decision of the Episcopal Church USA to proceed with the recent consecration [of Gene Robinson] despite sustained strong opposition from large segments of the Anglican Communion calls into question significant portions of our agreed statements on authority and ecclesiology ...:." "46. If Anglican Dioceses or provinces were to embrace the notion of a `local option' for important decisions about the teaching of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and if bonds of communion were weakened in the direction of a federation of autonomous provinces rather than a relationship of mutual responsibility and interdependence, then our consensus on the ecclesiology of communion would be seriously undermined, perhaps irreparably damaged". -- Conclusion, p. 20.
Anglican Members of the Ecclesiological Sub-Commission were: The Rt. Rev. David Beetge, Anglican Co-Chair of IARCCUM, the Rt. Rev. John Baycroft, Dr. Mary Tanner, The Rev. Canon Gregory Cameron, Anglican Co-Secretary, IARCCUM. Roman Catholic Members: The Rev. Peter Cross, the Rev. Dr. Paul McPartlan, the Rev. Liam Walsh, OP, the Rev. Canon Donald Bolen, Roman Catholic Co-Secretary, IARCCUM.
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"John J. McNeill, an ordained priest and practicing psychotherapist, who was expelled from the Society of Jesus in 1987 for refusing to give up his ministry to gay men and lesbians" -- inside back cover blurb.
"John J. McNeill, an ordained priest and practicing psychotherapist, who was expelled from the Society of Jesus in 1987 for refusing to give up his ministry to gay men and lesbians" -- inside back cover blurb.
"Gay and lesbian theology has been one of the most distinctive voices to have emergeed in Christian theology in the last 30 years. .... Elizabeth Stuart, one of the most prominent theologians in this field, presents the first critical survey of gay and lesbian theology arguing that its emergence was nothing short of miraculous. .... Stuart argues that, miraculous though this was, gay and lesbian theology has revealed itself to be `bankrupt' -- incapable of providing universally convincing reasons for the inclusion of lesbian and gay people and their relationships in the Church and unable to deal with the defining experience of lesbian and gay communities in the late twentieth century -- AIDS. Stuart concludes that lesbian and gay people and their opponents in the Church have too easily bought into modern constructions of sexual identity and cut themselves off from a Christian tradition which is far more `queer' in that it refuses to accept the stability of gender and sexual desire. Stuart argues that the only way out of the current deadlock on the issue of homosexuality in the Churches is for both sides to embrace this ancient queer tradition -- a Christian tradition which teaches that in the end gender and sexual identities have no ultimate importance". -- back cover.
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Theological Trouble -- Gay is Good -- Exodus -- Erotic Theology -- AIDS and the Failure of Gay and Lesbian Theology -- From Here to Queer -- Queer Theology -- Christianity is a Queer Thing -- Bibliography -- Index.
Contents: Preface / Arlene Swidler -- Homosexuality and the Traditional Religions of the Americas and Africa / Robert M. Baum -- Homosexuality and Hinduism / Arvind Sharma -- Homosexuality and Buddhism / Jose Ignacio Cabezon -- Homosexuality and Judaism / Lewis John Eron -- Homosexuality and Roman Catholicism / Denise Carmody and John Carmody -- Homosexuality and Islam / Khalid Duran -- Homosexuality and Chinese and Japanese Religions / Sandra A. Wawrytko -- Contributors.
Contents: Preface / Arlene Swidler -- Homosexuality and the Traditional Religions of the Americas and Africa / Robert M. Baum -- Homosexuality and Hinduism / Arvind Sharma -- Homosexuality and Buddhism / Jose Ignacio Cabezon -- Homosexuality and Judaism / Lewis John Eron -- Homosexuality and Roman Catholicism / Denise Carmody and John Carmody -- Homosexuality and Islam / Khalid Duran -- Homosexuality and Chinese and Japanese Religions / Sandra A. Wawrytko -- Contributors.