A minute or a millennium ?
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article25895
- Author
- Atkins, Peter
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 1999 Easter
- Author
- Atkins, Peter
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 1999 Easter
- Issue
- 93
- Page
- 37-38
- Notes
- After commenting that "[m]odern society is fascinated by the smallest unit of time. Olympic runners and swimmers will be timed to the thousandth of a second.", the author notes the "extraordinary attention [that] is being paid to a minute of time. People ask once another: `Where will you be at 00.01 on the 1st January 2000 AD' ?" "How does this fascination affect Christians throughout the Anglican Communion ? Should we be focussed on celebrations of a minute of a millennium ? Does the moment of time absorb our energies, or are we concentrating on facing the challenges of making the millennium a time when the will of God as revealed in Christ is brought to greater fulfillment through a spirit of realism, renewal and hope". Includes comments from Anglican leaders around the Communion. Atkins is the author of a new book "Worship 2000 ! : Resources to celebrate a new millennium".
- Author is a retired bishop of the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.
- Subjects
- Millennium - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Millennium - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Two thousand, A.D. - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Liturgy - Anglican Communion - Texts
- Location
- General Synod Archives