Beyond Colonial Anglicanism: The Anglican Communion in the Twenty-First Century - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0898693578 ISBN 13: 9780898693577

Verlag: Church Publishing, 2000

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This is a collection of fifteen provocative essays by a cadre of international authors that examine the nature and shape of the Communion today; the colonial legacy; economic tensions and international debt; sexuality and justice; the ecological crisis; violence and healing in South Africa; persecution and religious fundamentalism; the church amid global urbanization; and much more.

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The Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas, Ph.D. is the 15th Bishop Diocesan of The Episcopal Church in Connecticut,. His books include Fling our the Banner! and Beyond Colonial Anglicanism.

Kwok Pui-lan is Dean’s Professor of Systematic Theology at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, and a past president of the American Academy of Religion. An internationally known theologian, she is a pioneer of Asian and Asian American feminist theology and postcolonial theology. An author or editor of numerous books, she is the coeditor of Beyond Colonial Anglicanism and Anglican Women on Church and Mission. She received the Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship from the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2021. She splits her time between Boston and Atlanta.

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BEYOND COLONIAL ANGLICANISM

The Anglican Communion in the Twenty-First Century

By Ian T. Douglas, Kwok Pui-lan

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Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface Glauco S. de Lima
Introduction
Part I: Colonialism and the Anglican Communion
1. The Exigency of Times and Occasions: Power and Identity in the Anglican 
Communion Today Ian T. Douglas
2. The Legacy of Cultural Hegemony in the Anglican Church Kwok Pui-lan
3. The Nature and Shape of the Contemporary Anglican Communion David 
Hamid
Part II: Challenges of the Present World
4. From Violence to Healing: The Struggle for Our Common Humanity Denise 
M. Ackermann
5. As We Sail Life's Rugged Sea: The Paradox of Divine Weakness Kortright 
Davis
6. This Fragile Earth Our Island Home: The Environmental Crisis Jeffrey 
M. Golliher
7. Debt Relief: Giving Poor Countries a Second Chance John Hammock and 
Anuradha Harinarayan
8. Power, Blessings, and Human Sexuality: Making the Justice Connections 
Renée L. Hill
9. Global Urbanization: A Christian Response Laurie Green
Part III: Visions for the Future Church
10. Scripture: What Is at Issue in Anglicanism Today? Njongonkulu 
Ndungane
11. The Primacy of Baptism: A Reaffirmation of Authority in the Church 
Fredrica Harris Thompsett
12. Leadership Formation for a New World: An Emergent Indigenous Anglican 
Theological College Jenny Plane Te Paa
13. Beyond the Monarch/Chief: Reconsidering Episcopacy in Africa Simon E. 
Chiwanga
14. Culture, Sprit, and Worship Jaci Maraschin
15. Toward a Postcolonial Re-visioning of the Church's Faith, Witness, and 
Communion Christopher Duraisingh
Contributors

CHAPTER 1

The Exigency of Timesand Occasions

Power and Identity in the AnglicanCommunion Today

Ian T. Douglas

Even to the casual observer, the 1998 Lambeth Conference of worldwide Anglicanbishops was not the garden party of yesteryear. Following the conference,Anglicans in the industrialized West have had to wrestle deeply with the realitythat the Anglican Communion is no longer a Christian community primarilyidentified with Anglo-American culture. Up until the summer of 1998, mostAnglicans in the West could pretty well ignore the radical shifts indemographics that have occurred in the Communion over the last four decades andthus avoid hard questions of identity and authority. The cultural, economic, andpolitical power of Western Anglicans shielded them from deeply engaging therealities of an increasingly diverse and plural church.

But Lambeth 1998 signaled a turning point for Anglicanism. In debates overinternational debt and/or sexuality, it became abundantly clear to all that thechurches in the southern hemisphere, or the Two-Thirds World, would not standidly by while their sisters and brothers in the United States, England, andother Western countries continued to set the agenda. Whether aided or not bysome in the West who stood to gain ground in sexuality debates by siding withbishops in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific, Lambeth 1998 pointedout that a profound power shift has occurred within Anglicanism. For the firsttime ever, the Anglican Communion has had to face head-on the radicalmulticultural reality of a global Christian community. Old understandings ofAnglican identity based on shared Anglo-American hegemony have broken down.Anthems of Titcomb and Tallis sung by boy choirs in chapels at Cambridge andOxford can no longer hold Anglicans together. Even bishops taking tea with theQueen in the garden of Buckingham Palace during Lambeth is not what it used tobe.

Astute watchers of Lambeth and the emerging Communion knew that such a profoundshift has been in the works for decades. Speaking of the contemporary AnglicanCommunion, the Most Rev. Robert Runcie, past Archbishop of Canterbury, in hisaddress to the 1985 General Convention of the Episcopal Church propheticallyannounced:

We have developed into a worldwide family of churches. Today there are 70million members of what is arguably the second most widely distributed body ofChristians. No longer are we identified by having some kind of English heritage.English today is now the second language of the Communion. There are more blackmembers than white. Our local diversities span the spectrum of the world'sraces, needs, and aspirations. We have only to think of Bishop [Desmond] Tutu'scourageous witness in South Africa to be reminded that we are no longer a churchof the white middle classes allied only to the prosperous western world.

The changes in contemporary Anglicanism, from a white, predominantly English-speakingchurch of the West to a church of the southern hemisphere areconsistent with the changing face of Christianity over the last four decades.Anglican mission scholar David Barrett has documented that in the year 1900, 77percent of the 558 million Christians in the world lived in Europe or NorthAmerica. Today only 37 percent of the close to two billion Christians live insame area. Barrett further predicts that in less than three decades, in the year2025, fully 71 percent of the projected 2.6 billion Christians worldwide willlive in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific. If we consider the churchin Africa south of the Sahara, specifically, the numbers are equally astounding.In 1960, after a 150 years of Western missionary activity, the number ofChristians in Africa was approximately 50 million. From 1960 until 1990, theChristian population in Africa increased from 50 million to 250 million! Thatchange represents a five-fold increase in one fifth of the time, a fact notattributable to population growth alone.

What are we to make of this transformation in the global body of Christ? Inparticular, how has our own little corner of the Christian tradition, that partof the body of Christ that traces its origins to the holy catholic church firstrooted in the British Isles and now known as Anglicanism, been transformed intoa truly global Christian community? It is useful to reconsider our history.

For the majority of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centurythe Anglican Communion (as it existed) was dominated by Western churches. Chiefamong them were the Church of England, the Episcopal Church in the UnitedStates, and the Anglican churches in Canada and Australia. Each of these fourautonomous Anglican churches supported and controlled their own missions aroundthe world. In the case of the Episcopal Church USA, the three biggest missionfields in the nineteenth century were China, Liberia, and Japan. From the 1850sto the 1960s mission was inextricably linked to Western colonialism andimperialism. This was especially true for the Church of England as theestablished church, for wherever the Crown went so too did the church.

All of this began to change, however, in the 1960s, for with politicalindependence for countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific camethe desire for...

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• Verlag: Church Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0898693578
• ISBN 13: 9780898693577
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 325
• Herausgeber: Douglas Ian T., Pui-lan Kwok
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