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Article: Equipping for God's mission: the missiological vision of the 2008 Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops.(Conference news)
- Article from:
- International Bulletin of Missionary Research
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
- Author:
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The decennial meeting of bishops of the worldwide Anglican Communion, known as the Lambeth Conference, has never been immune from controversy. Archbishop of Canterbury Charles Longley called for the first Lambeth Conference in 1867, in part to consider whether John Colenso, bishop of Natal in South Africa, had gone too far in accommodating Scripture and the teachings of the church to Zulu culture. (1) While the "Colenso Affair" had significant missiological implications, the nature of the conference itself was also controversial. Not wanting to lend credibility to a centralization of episcopal power within Anglicanism, the then archbishop of York and the bishop of ...