The notes in the text are hyperlinked into the end notes; to return to the text, click on the end note number Contents Introduction A. Proto-Fulcrum Planning for NEAC4: pressing for a third theme of Mission Reaction to Rowan Williams from Reform, Church Society and CEEC B. Founding and Launches Founding Informal Launch, September … Continue Reading
Introduction What are fathers for? What is fatherhood for? These are questions of serious concern in our society of which many people have said “There is a crisis in family life.” What does a Church which worships God as Father have to contribute? The questions about fathers are part of a wider questioning about … Continue Reading
Contents of the monthly Fulcrum series of seven sermons for the web by Oliver O’Donovan The Failure of the Liberal Paradigm (July 2006) “Your treaty with death will be annulled, and your pact with Sheol will not stand” (Isaiah 29:18) The Care of the Churches (August 2006) “And apart from other things there is the … Continue Reading
“And apart from other things there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches” (2 Corinthians 11:28) At the still centre of the storm in the Anglican Communion stands the isolated, scholarly figure of the current Archbishop of Canterbury – the first holder of that office since the Reformation, it … Continue Reading
by Colin Chapman ‘How lonely sits the city that once was full of people! How like a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces has become a vassal.’ (Lamentations 1:1) This description of the destruction of Jerusalem in 586BC in the book of … Continue Reading
‘Women Bishops: A Response to Cardinal Kasper’, by the Rt Revd Dr Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham and the Rt Revd Dr David Stancliffe, Bishop of Salisbury. A background article written for the discussions at General Synod, York, July 2006 Introduction We greatly valued the chance to hear Cardinal Kasper at the House of Bishops … Continue Reading
By Dr Brian Stanley The Ramsden Sermon Preached Before the University of Cambridge on Sunday 4th June 2006 in Great St Mary’s Church by Dr Brian Stanley, Director of the Henry Martyn Centre for the Study of Mission and World Christianity, and Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. ‘Belief in a Divine mission’, wrote Bertrand … Continue Reading
Report from Jesus House for all Nations, by Jenny Taylor, Director of Lapido Media, 23 May 2006 Fulcrum
At its General Convention in 2003, the Episcopal Church (TEC) made decisions that tore the fabric of the Anglican Communion. The Windsor Report set out a vision of life in communion and ‘some ways in which the Episcopal Church (USA)…could begin to speak with the rest of the Communion in a way which would foster … Continue Reading
‘The Failure of the Liberal Paradigm’, the first in a series of seven ‘Sermons on the Subject of the Day’ by The Revd Canon Professor Oliver O’Donovan FBA, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, University of Oxford and a Canon of Christ Church. “Your treaty with death will be annulled, and your pact with … Continue Reading