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From Colonialism to Communion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2009

Michael Doe
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Abstract

This article reflects not only on the 2008 Lambeth Conference itself, but also on some of the deeper issues that were both revealed and concealed there and at the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) meeting that preceded it. I do this as the General Secretary of one of the Communion’s oldest mission agencies, finding common ground between the challenges we face and those that confront the Communion, in three respects. First, the need to move beyond the colonial inheritance to recognize both the independence of partners and the need for new patterns of inter-dependence. Secondly, the challenge to traditional understandings of belonging from a more self-select culture, most obvious in the consumerism of the North but also increasingly in global relationships. Thirdly, the danger of new colonialisms, in the kind of partnerships favoured by non-governmental organizations, from both conservatives and liberals in North America, but also emerging from some newly found powers in the South.

Keywords

Anglican CommunionCanterburyColonialismGAFCONLambeth Conference
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Anglican Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 2: Lambeth 2008 , November 2009 , pp. 213 - 220
Copyright
Copyright © The Journal of Anglican Studies Trust 2009

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Footnotes

1.

Michael Doe is General Secretary of USPG (United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel): Anglicans in World Mission. He is an Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Southwark in the Church of England.

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