The archbishop of Canterbury has issued a strong plea for unity amid doctrinal differences over homosexual activity, assisted suicide, and the ordination of women bishops in the Anglican Communion.
Dr. Rowan Williams made this appeal to the Anglican General Synod, yesterday, in London.Dr. Williams said the present state of the Anglican Communion is one of chaos, local schisms, and outside interventions.
Dr. Williams proposed what he called a three-dimensional vision that can save the Church from real betrayal.
He added that such a vision will oblige the Church to ask not how to can win this or that conflict but what it has to give to its neighbour for sanctification in Christ’s name and power.
Dr. William said the three-dimensional vision will oblige the Church to think hard about freedom and mutuality and the genuine difficulty of balancing costs or restraints in order to keep life moving around the Body.
He urged the Synod to deal with the questions without showing to the world an anxious, self-protective image that is so much in danger of entrenching itself in the popular mind as the typical Christian position.