Freedom and Covenant: The Miltonian Analogy Transfigured

From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: Radner, Ephraim | Copyright information

This essay draws positive attention to the Windsor Report's "Proposed Anglican Covenant." The primates' February 2005 Communiqué commended the proposal in general, and asked that steps be taken quickly by the Archbishop of Canterbury to have it considered by provinces before Lambeth 2008. The Covenant is a critical, even essential piece through which "autonomy in Communion" can be lived. For U.S. Episcopalians, the Covenant-even in its proposed particulars-may well prove the best means of ma...

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