tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294180508947136086.post5173760117735965812..comments2024-03-12T00:12:01.203-04:00Comments on The Old High Churchman: The ACC Provincial Synod+ Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15593635840263637835noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294180508947136086.post-4770595429179020092009-11-07T12:17:50.028-05:002009-11-07T12:17:50.028-05:00Bishop Doren seems to have retired from the active...Bishop Doren seems to have retired from the active Episcopate, and then come back to form the UECNA. He certainly had churchmanship issues with the wider ACC leadership at a time when most of those elevated to the Episcopate were from a Midwestern or West Coast Anglo-Catholic background, and tended to dress in a much more Romish manner than their theology might have suggested.+ Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15593635840263637835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294180508947136086.post-27244674387124267682009-11-04T00:57:57.008-05:002009-11-04T00:57:57.008-05:00P.S.,
I believe your Grace is overlooking the fir...P.S.,<br /><br />I believe your Grace is overlooking the first schism in which Bishop Dureson, the first consecrated at Denver, left the ACC to form the UEC. Perhaps, though, that schism was not so messy. At least, I don't recall any civil litigation. And, it seems as if that one might be healed in our time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294180508947136086.post-65089600700458592442009-11-03T19:08:06.852-05:002009-11-03T19:08:06.852-05:00Bishop Robinson,
Thank you for your insightful com...Bishop Robinson,<br />Thank you for your insightful comments. As a former ACC priest now affiliated with another jurisdiction, I continue to pray that the ACC and all the rest of us in the continuing movement may grow in maturity and common purpose.<br />A Prayerbook AnglicanBCPAnglicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04758491811213381857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294180508947136086.post-45110532499389633752009-11-02T23:55:30.497-05:002009-11-02T23:55:30.497-05:00I believe that the Cmmon Law approach worked well ...I believe that the Cmmon Law approach worked well in England because the Church of England was so much part of the fabric of society. Therefore a lot of the centrifugal forces generated by personality conflicts used to break harmlessly on the shores of Statute Law and the Establishment. This gave the Church great stability, and tended to confine the role of Canon Law to the sacramental and worshipping life of the Church.<br /><br />In the Roman Church things are a bit different. Its international character and increasingly centralized form of government made some sort of international Canon Law Code a necessity. This was partly supplied by Rome giving authoritative and remakably consistent interpretations of existing local Canons. This acted as a sort of shock absorber allowing local disputes to be resolved in what was effectively a Papal Court of Appeal. Eventually this ad hoc system was superceded by the unified Canon Law Code of 1917. <br /><br />The Episcopal Church Constitution and Canons provided a single unified code from 1789 onwards, but its rather utilitarian origins left some pretty large holes. The sections on the governance of the Church have been partly reworked several times, and the Dennis Canon (1979) was a modern fix for the age old problem of who owns the property. Other loophole were either subsequently closed, or remain the cause of periodic dispute even today.<br /><br />The ACC took over something of the Roman model's comprehensiveness by creating a single unified Code. However this applied only to the Church in the USA initially. It was only with the aftermath of the founding of the TAC, and the absorbsion of the remnant of "the ACC Overseas" into the Original Province that the ACC Canon Law Code was internationalized. As such it has become a "shock absorber" helping to defuse rather than intensify the impact of the occasional disputes that afflict every church body.<br /><br />Another blessing for the ACC is that its College of Bishops is big enough (at least 10 bishops) and well-enough educated that it actually possible to discipline a bishop using the correct canonical procedures. In smaller juridictions it is impossible to discipline bishops - a group of clergy who are so often the source of the problem.+ Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15593635840263637835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294180508947136086.post-8111432456756941442009-11-02T07:47:23.788-05:002009-11-02T07:47:23.788-05:00Your grace,
Thanks for the excellent and informat...Your grace,<br /><br />Thanks for the excellent and informative post. <br /><br />The point about the ACC canons is food for thought indeed. Though English temporal and spiritual law has historically been based on common-law models, and therefore, one might argue that the ACC code-law approach is inconsistent with Anglican patrimony, the acid test of any system of dispute resolution is practice. <br /><br />And, a code-law system can avoid perceived or actual "the rule of Law Lords or Bishops, as opposed to the Rule of Law" issue that can arise with common-law systems. Hence, the ACC may have found away to mitigate the fissiparous issue of "personality disputes" that has plagued the St. Louis Movement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com