December 18, 2009

Changes to Section 4 of the Covenant Draft

The “Final Text”of the Anglican covenant was released today. It is, of course, a draft; there may never be an Anglican covenant, much less this one, but we shall see. The new version can be found here. Presumably, only Section 4 is changed from the Ridley Cambridge Draft. An explanation of why changes were made to Section 4 can be found here.

I haven’t really had time to read any of the new material, but it did strike me that it would be helpful to show the changes to Section 4 in a more perspicuous way. Therefore, I offer a PDF version of a Microsoft Word comparison between the Section 4 of the Ridley Cambridge Draft and that of the “Final Version.”

I apologize for not incorporating the comparison document into this post, but the required HTML simply got too complicated to fix in a hurry. I trust the formatting of the PDF file will be self-evident. (Black text is unchanged; red text is deleted; slate text is new.)

9 Comments:

At December 18, 2009 4:11 PM , Blogger Celinda Scott said...

Thanks very much for this. Knowing the changes are in Section 4 (the most controversial part) saves a lot of time and the color code is very helpful. On first reading, it doesn't have any "teeth," which is fine. What's proposed is not a constitution; it's a covenant for a fellowship. It makes an extra layer of communication for a "global fellowship" which I think is very helpful. Perhaps others disagree, and maybe when I've read it a few more times I'll find fault with it. But right now I hope it flies.

 
At December 18, 2009 5:46 PM , Blogger Lisa Fox said...

Thank you for this gift to us, Lionel.

 
At December 18, 2009 9:17 PM , Blogger Caminante said...

Thanks for this... I will point the appropriate people in this direction.

 
At December 18, 2009 11:26 PM , Blogger Leonardo Ricardo said...

Thank you.

 
At December 19, 2009 7:32 AM , Blogger Lionel Deimel said...

The Anglican Communion Web site now has a side-by-side comparison of the two versions of Section 4. It shows the same information as my document in a different format. You can find it here.

 
At December 20, 2009 10:17 AM , Blogger Göran Koch-Swahne said...

Tank you for this! Very interesting.

 
At December 22, 2009 5:28 AM , Blogger liturgy said...

Thanks. I used your comparison in my blog post - with credit:
http://www.liturgy.co.nz/blog/anglican-covenant/2171

 
At December 28, 2009 1:46 AM , Blogger Ed Adcock said...

I agree with the revised Section 4.2.8. As long as TEC is in the process, we're in! I look forward to the Missionary Bishop to Mars to voting for further review.
In Texas, Bishop Garrett did a remarkable job.

 
At December 28, 2009 1:53 AM , Blogger Ed Adcock said...

Oh, by the way: Thanks for your support of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth and to the Diocese of Kentucky for Bishop Gulick!

 

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