Staff: Chloe Breyer
Article Date: 7/24/2008
Article Name: The Anglican Church’s Shifting Center
Author: Chloe Breyer
Summary: In 1867, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Charles Thomas Longley, convened the very first Lambeth Conference of Bishops to address, among other things, scandalous writings of a South African bishop questioning Holy Communion as a precondition for salvation.
Only 76 of the 200 invited bishops showed up at Lambeth Palace. But together they resolved that “the whole Anglican Communion is deeply injured by the present condition of the Church in Natal” and recommended that a committee be appointed to “report on the best mode by which the Church may be delivered from the continuance of this scandal.” Download full text.
