Jun 23, 2008 / 14:21 pm
The Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), a group of Anglicans seeking to preserve Christian orthodoxy in the Anglican Communion, began a key meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, where a prominent Nigerian archbishop reemphasized the conference would not go into schism.
The meeting was preceded by a Thursday book release explaining the theological and historical justifications for their movement, which formed in response to Anglican and Episcopalian revisionists who have endorsed homosexual relationships and minimized the authority of Scripture.
The Theological Resource Team for GAFCON has written a 94-page book titled “The Way, the Truth and the Life,” which outlines the recent conflicts within the Anglican Communion and sets out to define what it believes to be “authentic Anglicanism.” The book discusses the consequences of the conflict and examines the future of “orthodox Anglicans.”
“Our journey is a witness that the truth of God is accessible. We are convinced that God has made himself known, sufficiently for us to be able to respond to him, and to make truly moral choices between obedience and disobedience,” the book says, according to a GAFCON statement.