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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 12:14:41 +0100
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Subject: [zzzzteana] Bashing the bishop
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,806744,00.html
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Evangelicals' threat to new archbishop
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Direct action threat over liberal views on sexuality
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Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent
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Tuesday October 8, 2002
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The Guardian
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Evangelical fundamentalists last night stepped up their campaign to oust
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Rowan Williams, the incoming Archbishop of Canterbury, before he even takes
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up his post, by threatening to take "direct action" against him.
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The council of the Church Society, the Church of England's oldest
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evangelical body, joined a younger evangelical pressure group called Reform,
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which is also opposed to Dr Williams, in calling on him to recant his
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supposedly liberal views on sexuality or stand down.
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Following an emergency meeting, the 167-year-old society, whose leaders met
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the archbishop last week, proclaimed their continued opposition to his
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appointment and called on all Anglicans to spurn him.
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The move is the latest stage of an increasingly aggressive attempt to
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destabilise the new archbishop, whose leftwing political views are regarded
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with deep suspicion by the conservative fringes of the evangelical movement.
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Some evangelicals object to Dr Williams's acknowledgement that he has
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ordained a gay priest, something many bishops have done, and that those who
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have sex outside marriage need not necessarily be spurned. The new
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archbishop has repeatedly assured them that he respects the canons of the
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church.
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Nevertheless, the society said: "It is clear that he prefers his private
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judgment to the voice of scripture, to the voice of tradition and to the
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common mind of the church. As such he can only be a focus of disunity.
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"The council... called upon loyal Anglicans to pray specifically that Rowan
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Williams would see the error in his teaching, change his views or stand
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down," it said.
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The society claimed to have drawn up an "action plan," including calling on
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bishops and primates of the 70 million worldwide Anglican communion, of
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which archbishops of Canterbury are the leaders, to distance themselves from
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Dr Williams's doctrinal and ethical position. It promised it would be
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"taking steps towards appropriate direct action".
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It added that Dr Williams remained on the editorial board of a journal
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called Theology and Sexuality which, six months ago, published articles
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allegedly commending homosexual behaviour.
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Despite its claim, the society does not represent the common mind of the
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church. Dr Williams, currently Archbishop of Wales, was chosen by the crown
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appointments commission of church members, including evangelicals, and his
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appointment was endorsed by the prime minister and the Queen.
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He is due to succeed George Carey, who retires this month, and will be
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formally enthroned at Canterbury cathedral in February.
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Asked what form direct action might take, the Rev George Curry, the
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society's chairman, said: "Watch this space." Presumably it could involve a
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small minority of parishes repudiating the new archbishop and seeking
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alternative oversight or even demonstrations at services where Dr Williams
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is present.
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Church of England bishops, who have hitherto largely kept their heads down
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during the row, are meeting next week to discuss their response to the
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evangelical extremists' challenge, which appears to have grown in the
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absence of a robust rebuttal.
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A letter by senior theologians in today's Guardian, however, repudiates the
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evangelicals' tactics, calling them unseemly and contrary to biblical
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teaching.
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On the BBC's Thought for the Day yesterday, Angela Tilby, vice-principal of
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Westcott House, Cambridge, accused Dr Williams's opponents of presumption
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and blackmail. "It is in fact a thoroughly aggressive way to behave. It is
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attempting to force an issue by emotional violence... manipulating to get
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your way is often preferable to painstaking negotiation," she said.
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Last week, Dr Williams said he was deeply saddened. "Matters of sexuality
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should not have the priority or centrality that Reform and the Church
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Society have tried to give them. The archbishop cannot withdraw his
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appointment since so many, including evangelicals, have urged him to take
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the post... the archbishop believes it to be his duty under God."
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