Re-formation or re-creation?

Susie Leafe  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Dec 2017
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Re-formation or re-creation?

Archbishop Nicholas Okoh | photo: GAFCON

Those who have been following recent events in Anglicanism will have noticed two competing narratives at play. Both claim they are looking for a new Reformation:

‘… the Canterbury Primates Meeting, held earlier this month, shows once again that the Anglican Communion is in urgent need of a new Reformation.’ – Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, Chairman of the GAFCON Primates

‘What do we do with the gift today? Will we be willing ourselves to be reformed again and always, setting aside our differences because we are caught up in the grace that is found through faith?’ – Archbishop Justin Welby

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