Bishop Wright speaks out on the Windsor Report

Bishop N.T. Wright of Durham, England, who is a leading evangelical churchman in the Church of England as well as a highly-regarded New Testament scholar, was a member of the Lambeth Commission. He has just issued a statement regarding the upcoming Primates meeting in February that bears reading. According to Bishop Wright, it is time for action, not simply more talk about putting the recommendations of the Windsor Report into effect.

“As a member of the Lambeth Commission which produced the Windsor Report, I have been dismayed to see the misrepresentation, in some newspapers, of the views of the Chairman, Archbishop Robin Eames. Archbishop Eames has now issued a statement in which he has put the matter straight. Having worked with him closely for the last year, I can say with full assurance that this new statement, rather than the misleading reports, represents his true mind. The Lambeth Commission was not a think-tank representing a pressure group. It represented the wide range both of geography and opinion in the Anglican Communion, and its recommendations were unanimous. The Report urgently requires, not more leisured debate, but action. I strongly support the Archbishop in saying that the Primates, at their meeting in February, must not only take forward further discussion of the Report’s longer-term proposals, but must actually implement the recommendations which address the immediate problems we have been facing.
+THOMAS DUNELM
Auckland Castle
Bishop Auckland
Co. Durham, DL14 7NR”