Anglican Center Opens In Spain
Episcopal News Service. May 9, 1984 [85104]
SALAMANCA, Spain (DPS, May 9) -- Salamanca might not be the first place most people would look a center for Anglican studies, but the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church recently initiated "The Anglican Center" here with the goal "to let people know -- within the spirit of good fraternity that distinguishes the Churches of the 'Anglican Communion' -- their own spiritual, liturgical, and theological richness... as well as to help and reinforce their mutual knowledge to other members of Christian churches, mainly the Roman Catholic Church."
In a letter to Bishop Herbert Donovan of Arkansas announcing the Center's opening, the Rt. Rev. Arturo Sanchez, head of the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church, said the project has the cooperation of the Roman Catholic Church and the interest of the Anglican Consultative Council.
Activities of the Center will fall into three basic categories: "investigation, teaching, and historical and cultural orientation of the Spanish religiosity."
A library and magazine collection centered on the Anglican Communion and related subjects will be the focus of the "investigation" activities of the program.
The teaching function will be carried out in programs of planned studies, lasting between 15 days and a month, which will include both lectures and seminars. There will be five areas of study: Anglicanism, spirituality, ecumenism, liturgics, and biblical studies.
"Historical and cultural orientation of the Spanish religiosity" is a program which would enable foreign students at the Salamanca Center to make week-end visits to nearby places of historical or cultural importance, giving them a better grounding in Spanish history.
Sanchez's letter noted that the first phase of the project is to begin a "library of Anglican matters." This will serve as a nucleus around which the rest of the Center's program will be built. To aid the Center in getting started, he requested spare materials from Donovan, who responded by publicizing the need for books and magazines in the Arkansas Churchman, the diocesan newspaper. Those wishing to join the effort can send materials to: the Rev. Henry Scriven - C/Alfonso Castro - no 23-2o - 37005 Salamanca - Spain.