Anglican Doctrinal Commission Named
Episcopal News Service. December 11, 1980 [80446]
London -- An Episcopalian is one of 14 members of a recently appointed International Anglican Theological and Doctrinal Commission of the entire Anglican Communion, according to an announcement in Church Times.
The Most Rev. Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Rt. Rev. John Howe, Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council, made the appointments in late November.
The Rev. Richard A. Norris, Jr., a professor of church history at New York's Union Theological Seminary, is the only Episcopalian named to the Commission, which will be chaired by the Most Rev. Keith Rayner, Archbishop of Adelaide of the Province of South Australia. The Rev. George Braund, Anglican Consultative Council Associate Secretary, was named secretary.
Provision for the Commission was made by the Anglican Consultative Council when it met in Canada in 1979. The Commission will meet four times, once every two years, and members will consult widely in their own areas of the world, conferring with each other between meetings by mail.
The Commission will meet for the first time from July 20 to Aug. 1, 1981 to study "Church and Kingdom in Creation and Redemption," giving special attention to "the diverse and changing cultural contexts in which the gospel is proclaimed, received and lived."
Other members of the Commission are the Rev. George D. H. Connor of New Zealand; Canon Sehon S. Goodridge of the West Indies; Canon James Hartin of Ireland; Dr. Jaci Maraschin of Brazil; Canon Martin Mbwana of Tanzania; Dr. Helen Milton of Canada; Lady (Helen) Oppenheimer of England; Professor John Pobee of Ghana; Bishop Lakshman Wickremesinghe of Sri Lanka; the Rev. Rowan Williams of England; and Bishop Lawrence Zulu of South Africa.