Restoring the Bonds of Affection

Anglican Theological Review, Fall 2005 by Carroll, R William

9 Letty M. Russell, Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993), 35-45.

10 See David Tracy, Plurality and Ambiguity: Hermeneutics, Religion, Hope (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987; reprint, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).

11 On the consensus fidelium, see paragraph 68.

12 The Reports remarks about inculturation (para. 32, 67, 85, 91) rely on a false distinction between an eternal message and its historical, cultural form.

13 Francis A. Sullivan, S.J., From Apostles to Bishops: The Development of the Episcopacy in the Early Church (New York and Mahwah, NJ.: Newman Press, 2001), 15. Episcopos and its cognates are mentioned in Acts 1:20, Phil. 1:1, Acts 20:28, 1 Tim. 3:1-2, and Titus 1:3. How this office compares with that of later bishops remains uncertain.

14 The Book of Common Prayer, According to the Use of the Episcopal Church (New York: The Church Hymnal Corporation, 1979), 298, 301-308, 531, 855-856 (hereafter BCP). See Daniel B. Stevick, Baptismal Moments, Baptismal Meanings (New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1987), 136-138; and Ruth Mevers's more recent Continuing the Reformation: Re-Visioning Baptism in the Episcopal Church (New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1997).

15 I am here indebted to my colleague Robert D. Hughes.

16 BCP, 302, 305.

17 BCP, 855-856.

18 BCP, 305.

19 Compare the Quadrilateral on "the Historic Episcopate, locally adapted" (BCP, 877).

20 BCP, 304, citing Acts 2:42.

21 See Christopher Bryan, And God Spoke: The Authority of the Bible for the Church Today (Cambridge, Mass.: Covvley Publications, 2002), 25, 137-138.

22 Leonel L. Mitchell, Praying Shapes Believing: A Theological Commentary on the Book of Common Prayer (Minneapolis, Minn.: Winston Press, 1985; reprint, Harrisburg, Pa.: Morehouse, 1991), 164.

23 Johann Baptist Metz, Faith in History and Society: Toward a Practical Fundamental Theology (New York: Seabury Press, 1980), 90. see Bruce T. Morrill, Anamnesis as Dangerous Memory: Political and Liturgical Theology in Dialogue (CoIlegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2000).

24 See, for example, the references to Ephesians in paragraphs 2, 6. See also John 17:21, which figures prominently in the history of the ecumenical movement; in the 1995 encyclical, Ut Unum Sint; and in the Prayers of the People, Form III (BCP, 387).

25 See BCP, 94, 308, 854. Compare 1 Pet. 2:19, Rev. 5:10.

26 BCP, 854.

27 Compare chapter 4 of the 1997 "Report of the Inter-Anglican Theological and Doctrinal Commission (The Virginia Report)." See paragraph 83.

28 See Marcello de C. Azevedo, "Basic Ecclesial Communities," in Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J. and Jon Sobrino, S.J., Mysterium Liberationis: Fundamental Concepts of Liberation Theology (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1993), 636-651.

29 Compare my "Local Options: True Subsidiarity in the Body," Covenant 19 (Jan. 2005).

30 Kathryn Tanner, Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology (Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2001), 3, citing Karl Rahner, Foundations of Christian Faith: An Introduction to the Idea of Christianity (New York: Seabury Press, 1978), 79.