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MCU responses to the Windsor Report
and draft covenant proposals
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MCU has been sceptical about the content and implications of the Windsor process since its inception.
This page lists all the papers MCU has produced in relation to this process.
Further discussion can be found on the MCU blog Only Connect and on Paul Bagshaw's blog Not the same stream.
The St Andrews Draft (February 2008)
July 2008
Who Steers the Ship? The poverty of the Draft Anglican Covenant, Paul Bagshaw (MCU Forewords Booklet, June 2008) (Word, .pdf)
Unfit For Purpose or, Why a pan-Anglican Covenant at this time is a very bad idea! (Word, .pdf). by Prof. Marilyn McCord Adams. Paper given at the 2008 MCU Conference.
The Covenant Will Not Do, by Paul Bagshaw, in Signs of the Times, July 2008.
February 2008
An Anglican Covenant - St Andrew's Draft Briefing Paper for General Synod, by Jonathan Clatworthy and Paul Bagshaw (Word, .pdf)
A flow chart showing the proposed disciplinary process (Appendix to the St Andrews draft) by Paul Bagshaw (.pdf)
Church of England Response to the draft Anglican Covenant (January 2008) (Word, .pdf)
Reply to the Church of England's Response to the Draft Anglican Covenant, by Jonathan Clatworthy and Paul Bagshaw (Word, .pdf)
May - July 2007
Response, by Jonathan Clatworthy, Paul Bagshaw and John Saxbee, Bishop of Lincoln,(prepared for the meeting of General Synod in July 2007 and submitted the the Anglican Communion Office as MCU's response to the consultation) in (Word, .rtf, .pdf) This was later submitted as a briefing paper to the Church of England's General Synod (in GS 1661).
2 page summary (Word, .rtf, .pdf)
General summary of the arguments (Word, .rtf, .pdf)
Letters in the Church Times from John Plant (15 June 2007) (Word, .rtf, .pdf) and Bishop John Saxbee (29 June 2007) (Word, .rtf, .pdf)
Bouncing the Covenant through the Anglican Communion, by Paul Bagshaw. (Word, .rtf, .pdf)
June 2007
Response to the Study Guide produced for the 2008 Lambeth Conference, by Jonathan Clatworthy.
November 2006
Response by Paul Bagshaw and Jonathan Clatworthy, (Word, .rtf, and .pdf)
Why we are writing to the bishops, by Jonathan Clatworthy (Word, .rtf) published in the Church Times (December 1 2006).
July 2006
2005
The Windsor Report: A Guide, by Simon J. Taylor
The Windsor Report: A Liberal Response, Jonathan Clatworthy and David Taylor (eds.) (O Books, Winchester & New York, 2005) (Available via Lund Books)
Concluding chapter, by Jonathan Clatworthy
July 2004