It was just a delaying tactic anyway, and not one of his better ones.

It wasn’t a bad idea at the beginning, if it had been taken as intended. But it wasn’t taken as intended. Canterbury and New York twisted and turned it until it was entirely useless, insulting much of the Global South in the process.

There really is no “Anglican Communion” any longer, or if there is, the Archbishop of Canterbury is no longer part of it.

Agree with all the prior posts. Dr. Rowan Williams will go down in history as the man who “killed” the Anglican Communion. Of course, he had a lot of help from his own feckless priests and bishops.

Perhaps the most distressing thing to me about Rowan Williams was that he had a stealth liberal agenda from the beginning. Conservatives kept expecting and waiting for a firm line in the sand that never came. This bought the liberals in the U.S., Canada and the UK time to advance their liberal agenda unchecked and undisciplined. Like a chess player, he kept asserting that his primary goal was to keep the Anglican Communion together (unity). This was a knight he placed in front of a bishop to conceal the bishop’s trajectory. When the knight was moved a second time, it uncovered the bishop which threatened the queen (Anglican Communion). The bishop was TEC. It was never about unity. It was about advancing an agenda.

Not sure I follow the details of that chess metaphor, Dale, but I think the conservatives were rooked.

Dr. Rowan Williams did not kill the Anglican Communion. The powers manipulating TEC did. They twisted his arm with Trinity Wall Street money.

The covenant as originally written would have isolated The revisionist western Anglicans, and would have been acceptable to the majority of the communion. It had to be torpedoed so it was not acceptable to anybody, and, with Williams’s manipulations, it was. But I think he was forced to do it.

Creedal Episcopalian,
Rowan Williams may not have been the matador but was at least the picador.

Rowan Williams has a patina of intelligence, let’s be clear about that. But, practical intelligence? No. Anyway, everyone but the ACI knew the so-called covenant-that-would-never-be-a-covenant-because-if-the-Newyorkopalian-Church-adopted-it-they-would-immediately-violate-it was a stupid waste of time.