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• W282136586 abstract "Confession is the foundation for restructuring Anglican comprehensiveness. The need to confess cuts across boundaries, and it speaks directly to the reality of human finitude. The community of the Episcopal Church in the twenty-first century needs desperately to renew its sensibility about confession. In developing this proposition, I want to begin with a particular experience. The setting is the gallery of the House of Deputies on August 3, 2003 at the Minneapolis General Convention. The House of Deputies is preparing to vote by orders on the confirmation of Canon Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. The House of Deputies, of course, is one of those distinctive American creations, born of an idea that came up in the context of arguments and discussions between William White and Samuel Seabury during the church's Constitution period. The result was a separate House of Bishops and a House of Clerical and Lay Deputies. There are interesting family resemblances to the shaping of American Constitutional government, reflecting one of the ways in which Anglican experience and Episcopal experience has shaped and reshaped the church. Many people, of course, watched the events I did, on the news networks. But watching it in that way could not come close to the experience of observing the debate. As you know, the Theology Committee of the House of Bishops, chaired by the bishop of Alabama, had issued a report in advance of the General Convention, which discussed the matters involved-specifically, the question of blessing of same-sex relationships, as well as the appropriateness or the feasibility under some circumstances of ordaining people living in committed same-sex relationships.1 The debate, of course, had been carried on throughout the convention. The logistics of the convention were such that people on either side of the question were asked to stand at one podium or the other. A certain amount of time was allocated, and not all who had hoped to speak could speak, but provision was made for people reflecting the divided mind of the house to have their say. But the moment that I want to highlight is one that would not make good television. It was the insistence and the decision on the part of the president of the House of Deputies, George Werner, the retired dean of the cathedral in the diocese of Pittsburgh, that before the vote was taken, the house would observe a profound and extended silence, and that after the vote, any sign of celebration or triumphalism would be ruled immediately out of order and dismissed. The thoughts that I want to share here are thoughts that were stimulated for me during that extended and profound silence, a silence that lasted perhaps three or four minutes in a room filled with close to three thousand people-thoughts during the silence. The people, of course, standing on one side or other spoke their point of view with verve and conviction. That setting and that format gave no opportunity for anyone to say what many of us might feel-Well, on the one hand or on the other, what is the balance of my judgment? No, the format constrained people to speak in terse, targeted ways, to say exactly what their point and what their argument would be. Like much else, it seems to me, in contemporary Anglican practice, such a format gave short shrift to the possibility of what I would regard as a confessional advocacy of a particular position. Let me explain what I mean by confessional advocacy. We take pride in not being a confessional church. There is not, as it were, a system of doctrine, a system that binds us any further than the great ecumenical dogmas. What I mean by confessional advocacy, however, is not that, but instead a sense and an ability to enter into a conversation and to enter into a space where one really can argue a position, while recognizing at the same time that in promoting that particular position, one might be wrong-or, to put it another way, that one might be less than completely right. …" @default.
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