Focus on Lambeth: A supplement to the Anglican Journal: Ecumenical partners stand by communion as it struggles
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article39608
- Author
- Sison, Marites N.
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2008 September
- Author
- Sison, Marites N.
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2008 September
- Volume
- 134
- Issue
- 7
- Page
- L-9
- Notes
- "When bishops gathered for the Lambeth Conference in 1998, inter-faith dialogue was 'kind of a theoretical and interesting question', said Thomas Butler, diocesan bishop of Southwark, a borough of southeast London. 'But now it really is very high on the agenda of of virtually every nation in the world because we mostly now live in multi-faith environments'. Matters of faith and religion are now 'very high' on the agenda. To demonstrate the importance of ecumenical relations, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams invited more than 75 representatives from a variety of faiths and Christians communities to attend ass participants at the conference here". "A high-ranking Vatican cardinal [Ivan Dias] who attended the conference, called for greater unity between Anglicans and Catholics, but at the same time gave veiled advice that the Anglican Communion must address deep division within its ranks". "On July 29 [2008], Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of the Commonwealth, urged Jews, Christians and other faith communities to show the world another facet of religion -- not one of conflict but of hope and blessing". "Rabbi Sacks urged Anglican bishops to 'hold together for the future'. He said, 'The Anglican Communion has held together quite difference strands of Christian theology and practice more graciously and successfully than any other religion I know'." "Rabbi Sacks said 'the call of God in our time' is for faiths to come together in a 'global covenant' to address the challenges of the times. He spoke about covenant .... 'A contract is a transaction. A covenant is a relationship. Or to put it slightly differently, a contract is about interests; a covenant is about identity. It is about you and me coming together to form an "us". That is why contract benefit, but covenants transform'."
- Subjects
- Lambeth Conference, 2008
- Ecumenical movement - Anglican Communion
- Interfaith dialogue - Anglican Communion
- Religious pluralism - Anglican Communion
- Butler, Tom (Thomas Frederick), 1940-
- Anglican Communion - Relations - Catholic Church - 21st century
- Dias, Ivan, 1936-
- Christianity and other religions - Judaism - Anglican Communion
- Unity - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Sacks, Jonathan (Jonathan Henry), 1948-2020
- Covenants - Religious aspects - Judaism
- Location
- General Synod Archives