I was very pleased to see that GAFCON wants ecumenical co-operation with Rome.

I expected the agenda to be Sydney dominated. I was wrong, the tenor of the hand book is very incluisve.

The section on worship and liturgy is very telling as nowhere is the liturgical revolution of Cranmer mentioned. There is no condemnation of the Sacrifice of the Mass, real presence,prayers for the dead etc. The quote from Cranmer is carefully chosen so that Anglo-catholic and Evangelical will see nothing that undermines their respective faith....all cranmer did was revise the liturgy in English. Non of the underpinning theology is expalained.

Baptism is described an “ effectual sign of grace” but nowhere is it described or further defined as either regenerative or symbolic.

Diversity of worship is enjoined and one wonders if the Anglo-Catholics of Sydney will be allowed to bring out their chasubles!

GAFCON also admits the plurality of Anglican traditions, a point which TC Hammond would never have conceded.

TC Hammnond shaped Sydney Anglicanism , by his time as Principal of Moore College...he was an unswerving Protestant, and he would be very surprized at the compromise that this GAFCON reassertion of orthodox Anglicanism is offering. Neither Hmmond or Doctor Broughton Knox would accept the legitimacy of the Anglo-Catholic claims.  Anglo-catholicsm was simply an illegal imposition of Romanist doctrine and ritual on Anglicanism.

Hey Robert, why two threads on GAFCON?

I haven’t seen this doc at all. Guess it’s cos I’m up here in the middle of nowhere. Might hunt it down next week as I am in town for meetings.

Good Welsh name, Owen.. I’m in North Wales, UK

Ta
Welsh is a language I’d love to learn too. It’s rather strongly writ into my heritage… mind you, so is Irish and Scottish.
Your response also means I’d better try harder to get into it.

But
why two threads?