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Major Anglican Ecumenical Report 'The Vision Before Us' is now Published

Posted On : June 5, 2009 3:40 PM | Posted By : Admin ACO
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A comprehensive account of the Anglican Communion's ecumenical work has
been published by the Anglican Communion Office.

The Vision Before Us, subtitled 'The Kyoto Report of the Inter-Anglican
Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations 2000-2008', records the
Commission's work of maintaining an overview of the Anglican Communion's
engagement with Christians of other traditions, and of giving
encouragement and advice to the ecumenical activities of the Communion
and the Provinces.

Described by the Rt Revd Gregory Cameron, Bishop of St Asaph, and former
Anglican Director of Ecumenical Affairs, as 'a chocolate box of
delights', the book contains all the Resolutions of the Commission,
along with its statements, papers, advice and other key texts. These
include an extended study on Holy Orders in Ecumenical Dialogues and
Guidelines on Ecumenical Participation in Ordinations. It details all
the Communion's bilateral and multilateral dialogues, as well as various
regional developments, and the ecumenical dimensions of other areas of
the Communion's life.

All these are accompanied by thorough commentary and analysis, provided
by the compiler and editor, the Revd Sarah Rowland Jones, Research and
Ecumenical Advisor to the Archbishop of Cape Town, and a member of the
Commission throughout its term. She records the evolution of the
Commission's methodology, and discusses the major themes which
characterise and run through all aspects of Anglican understanding and
pursuit of the vocation to Christian unity.

Of particular importance is the development of 'Four Principles of
Anglican Engagement in Ecumenism' which are offered to the Communion for
consideration and further development.

The recent meeting of ACC-14 in Jamaica warmly commended The Vision
Before Us 'for study as a benchmark ecumenical volume in the Provinces
of the Anglican Communion'.

The book is intended as a key resource and handbook for those with an
interest in ecumenism and associated questions of faith and order,
whether Anglicans engaged in this work, partners from elsewhere within
the Christian world, academics, or the general reader.

Copies are available from neil.vigers@anglicancommunion.org at the
Anglican Communion Office.

> Ed. Sarah Rowland Jones
> The Vision Before Us
> London 2009-06-01 ISBN 978-9558261-6-0,256pp
> Price £8.99

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