Lambeth 2008 : First invitation to 'reflective and learning-based' Lambeth Conference go out
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article34885
- Author
- Williams, Rowan D. (Rowan Douglas), 1950-
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2007 Trinity
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2007 Trinity
- Issue
- 126
- Page
- 40-41
- Notes
- Text of the letter sent from Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, to each bishop eligible to attend Lambeth 2008 from 16 July to 4 August. The Conference "will focus on our equipping as bishops for leadership in mission and teaching, and it will also be an opportunity for all of us to strengthen our commitment to God's mission and to our common life as a Communion". Because there has been quite a bit of speculation about invitations and the conditions that might be attached to them, I want to set out briefly what I think the Conference is and is not. The Conference is a place where our experience of God's mission can be shared. It is a place where we may be renewed for effective ministry. And it is a place where we can try and get more clarity about the limits of our diversity and the means of deepening our Communion so we can speak together with conviction and clarity to the world. ..... But the Lambeth Conference has no 'constitution' or formal powers; it is not a formal Synod or Council of the bishops of the Communion ... An invitation to participate in the Conferences has not in the past been a certificate of doctrinal orthodoxy. .... At this point, and with the recommendations of the Windsor Report particularly in mind, I have to reserve the right to withhold or withdraw invitations from bishops whose appointment, actions or manner of life have caused exceptionally serious division or scandal within the Communion".
- Also includes text of the "Lambeth Prayer" for the 2008 Conference.
- Subjects
- Lambeth Conference, 2008
- Location
- General Synod Archives