Bishop Tom Wright and Andrew Goddard spoke at today’s Fulcrum conference
The debates we face in the Anglican Communion resonate closely with similar debates in the larger worldwide community, within western society and our own nation.
and
‘Mission-shaped church’ doesn’t mean you can reduce ecclesiology to functional categories. Ephesians offers a deep ecclesial ontology which is, to be frank, what we’re going to need in the next generation. I suspect, actually, that this is the main reason why much liberal Protestantism has rejected the Pauline authorship of Ephesians, and why much conservative Protestantism, while accepting Pauline authorship for quite other reasons, has done its best to avoid the head-on challenge of its super-high ecclesiology, preferring to do with Ephesians what it does with the gospels, namely, dismember it in search of verses which can provide footnotes to a truncated reading of Romans and Galatians…
Conflict and Covenant in the Bible
Conflict and Covenant in the Communion
Talks promptly posted
