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Divided We Stand: North American Evangelicals and the Crisis in the Anglican Communion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2010

Jason Bruner
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Abstract

This paper discusses the development of the Anglican Communion’s ‘crisis’ regarding the place of gay and lesbian persons within the tradition. It presents a social and theological contextualization of this crisis within the Episcopal Church, USA, in the second half of the twentieth century. It argues that the origins of the Anglican Communion’s crisis regarding gay and lesbian persons within the Communion are best understood in continuity with the broader North American evangelical movement of the second half of the twentieth century. The implications of this contextualized study serve to critique an understanding of the current crisis, which juxtaposes a decrepit, liberal ‘North’ with a vibrant, ‘orthodox’ ‘Global South’.

Keywords

Anglican CommunionEpiscopal ChurchevangelicalismGlobal SouthhomosexualityThe Next Christendom
Type
Research Article
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Journal of Anglican Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , May 2010 , pp. 101 - 125
Copyright
Copyright © The Journal of Anglican Studies Trust 2009

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Footnotes

1.

Jason Bruner is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton Theological Seminary. He would like to acknowledge Ian Douglas, Ph.D., and Margaret Guider, O.S.F., Th.D., for their generous contributions and guidance in the researching of this article.

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