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Does the Church of England have a Theology of General Synod?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2013

Mark Chapman
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Journal of Anglican Studies , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , May 2013 , pp. 15 - 31
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Footnotes

1.

This paper is a modified version of a lecture delivered at a conference organised by Affirming Catholicism entitled ‘Episcopally-Led, Synodically Governed’ on 24 November 2012 at St Mary-le-Bow Church, London. It took place four days after the rejection by the House of Laity in the General Synod of the measure that would have allowed the ordination of women as bishops.

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Mark Chapman is Vice Principal of Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxford and the Review Editor for the Journal of Anglican Studies.

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