I've interpreted them with the help of wordle - a very fun and very time-efficent web based program at www.wordle.net
Any comments? I think there are some interesting differences and similarities between these documents.
Enjoy!
~ The Rev. Peter M. Carey
The Windsor Report
To Set Our Hope on Christ
The "Virginia Report"
St. Andrew's Draft Document of the Anglican Covenant
The Book of Common Prayer
Dynamic Ecclesiology of Communion, by Peter Carey
1 comments:
Thanks Peter. You should add a wordle of the Ridley draft, which is the most recent form of the covenant.
I notice that the Windsor Report really emphasized "Communion" to the exclusion of almost all else, while the St. Andrew's Draft emphasized "church" along with "communion," and To Set Our Hope emphasized "Church" to the exclusion of "communion." I detect a certain tension between the terms "church" and "communion." At first hearing, "church" sounds more institutional than "communion."
Certainly the St. Andrew's draft of the covenant was more juridical than later drafts. Was St. Andrew aiming to create an Anglican Church? If so, that wouldn't appear to have been the case with the Windsor Report.
I'm disappointed that "communion" was mentioned so rarely in To Set Our Hope. But I also wonder why "Church" comes up so much. Were most of those references to the Episcopal Church,and thus a statement of autonomy?
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