╨╧рб▒с>■  .0■   -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ье┴% °┐pbjbj%ч%ч .GНGНp       lhhhhhhh|┤┤┤┤ └ |сВ╪юююююююДЖЖЖЖЖЖc Г jЖhюююююЖ║hhююЫ║║║ю"hюhюД║юД║╩║ДhhДю╠ 0*b;т─|8┤"ДД▒0сДэ 2Иэ Д║||hhhh┘Roger Orr reviews: Colin Buchanan, Is Papal Authority a Gift to Us?, Grove Books 2003, г2.50. The second Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission - more commonly known by the snappy title of УARCIC-2Ф Ц published УThe Gift of AuthorityФ in May 1999. So why has Colin produced a critique of this report four years later, and why should you read it? When the report was published it was Уcommended to all Anglicans for the most serious consideration and debateФ by the Archbishop. However this does not seem to have happened. The whole subject seems to have been frozen out of the agenda of General Synod Ц perhaps thatТs why my favourite Web search engine keeps trying to change the word СarcicТ to СarcticТ. Colin fears this neglect means that the report is in danger of being implicitly accepted as an agreed joint declaration by both communions. He starts off with a sketch of the historical context of authority since the Reformation, focussing especially on the question of Papal infallibility and ecumenical moves between Anglicans and Roman Catholics. This helps put some background behind Сthe Gift of AuthorityТ for those of us who are not well versed in ecclesiastical history. Having set the scene he then rings warning bells about the report over four key issues: the authority of Scripture, the place of the laity in the structure of the church, universal primacy and infallibility. Although Colin notes that there are some very positive things in the report, for example some of the statements made about Scripture, he is concerned that some specifically Anglican questions in all of these areas seem to have been brushed aside. His level of concern increases down the list, concluding with a whole chapter on infallibility which begins with the statement: УI wish, as an Anglican bishop, to call these astonishing assertions about the Bishop of Rome into question ЕФ. As someone with, until now, only a Сsound biteТ knowledge of Уthe Gift of AuthorityФ I was quite taken aback with some of it Ц I found myself wondering how certain sections were agreed by the Anglican members of the commission. So Colin provides an appendix УHow Did It Go So Wrong?Ф which I found one of the most intriguing sections of the booklet. In it he tries to explain how the commission, which consists of well-intentioned Anglicans and Roman Catholics, has ended up producing something which many Anglicans feel they cannot agree with. He uses, slightly tongue-in-cheek, an analogy with the dynamics (but not the morals) of a hijack where the victims can end up seeing the world through their captorsТ eyes. Read ColinТs booklet, and read it in conjunction with the СGift of AuthorityТ (handily downloadable from the VaticanТs web site  HYPERLINK "http://www.vatican.va" www.vatican.va). 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