The Constitution of the Anglican Communion and the Current Crisis
Saturday October 20th 2007
Anglican Mainstream

Roger Beckwith argues that since the 1930 Lambeth Conference established the autonomy of individual provinces, it is entirely proper for a province to declare itself out of communion with another province. Cross boundary oversight does not apply because the boundary is no longer recognised.

His argument is that “The Lambeth Conference in 1998 passed by a very large majority resolution 1.10, opposing the ordination of practising homosexuals and the blessing of homosexual unions; the American and Canadian Churches appeared to defy this advice; the Primates Meeting several times reiterated the advice, and set a deadline for changing course and conforming to it; in the meantime, a number of individual Churches exercised their right of ‘formal action’ and excommunicated ( or declared themselves in impaired communion with ) ECUSA; having done so, they rightly regarded the Lambeth resolution against crossing boundaries as irrelevant, and (in the patristic manner) made separate Episcopal provision for orthodox adherents in areas dominated by heresy; and for this they were unjustly condemned by the Windsor Report, in language stronger than it uses for the heretics themselves, and the bishops they appointed have not been invited to the 2008 Lambeth Conference, though the erring American (and Canadian) bishops have.”

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