Hostname: page-component-68945f75b7-zpsnj Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-08-05T12:20:57.438Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Postcolonial Paradox: Becoming Less than Whole(s) Producing Parts that Exclude Other Parts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Joseph F. Duggan
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to address coexistent Anglican faith identities that have flourished in contexts after the colonial period. Thus far these identities have been treated as differences in viewpoints. Metaphysically speaking member differences are included as ‘parts’ of the one ‘whole’ Body of Christ. Without a postcolonial metaphysical and theological critique that decolonizes the Body of Christ, as the Church, then parts repeatedly seek, to redefine, restore or reform the ‘whole’ to maintain the whole’s coherence and empowering the former part. Ignoring the metaphysical aspect of ecclesial identity postpones the emergence of a postcolonial Anglican Communion where multiple faith identities can coexist.

Keywords

Anglicanismcoexistent faith identitiesmetaphysicspostcolonialThe Windsor Reportwhole-parts
Type
Introduction to Postcolonial Articles
Information
Journal of Anglican Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , May 2009 , pp. 67 - 77
Copyright
Copyright © The Journal of Anglican Studies Trust 2009

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

1.

Joseph F. Duggan is a doctoral researcher at the University of Manchester, England, and a priest in the Diocese of Nevada in The Episcopal Church.

References

2. Douglas, Ian T., ‘Anglicans Gathering for God’s Mission: A Missiological Ecclesiology for the Anglican Communion’, The Journal of Anglican Studies 2.2 (2004), p. 10.Google Scholar

3. Jn 15.5 and Jn 14.2.Google Scholar

4. Henry, Desmond P., Medieval Mereology (Amsterdam: B.R. Gruner, 1991), pp. 218–328; Thomas Gilby, Between Community and Society: A Philosophy and Theology of the State (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1953), pp. 107–23; and Guy Mansini, ‘On the Relation of Particular to Universal Church’, Irish Theological Quarterly 69 (2004), p. 184.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5. Tierney, Brian, Foundations of The Conciliar Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955), pp. 132–513.Google Scholar

6. Lambeth Commission, The Windsor Report (New York: Morehouse Publishing, 2004), paragraphs 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 33, 51, 61, 65, 67 and 69.Google Scholar

7. Avis, Paul, Theology of The Reformers (New York: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1981), p. 73 and The Identity of Anglicanism: Essentials of Anglican Ecclesiology (London: T&T Clark, 2008), p. 46.Google Scholar

8. The Windsor Report, paragraphs 16 and 17.Google Scholar

9. Russell, Letty, Church In The Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993), p. 25.Google Scholar

10. The Most Reverend Edmond Lee Browning, Installation Address of the Presiding Bishop at Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC, January 11, 1986 (repr. in New York: Diocesan Press Service [now Episcopal News Service], packet DPS-86004).Google Scholar

11. Palmer, William, The Ideal of the Christian Church (London: James Toovey, 1847).Google Scholar

12. Porter, Andrew, Religion versus Empire: British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700–1914 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), p. 13; Rowan Strong, Anglicanism and The British Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 60; and Paul Avis, The Identity of Anglicanism (London: T&T Clark, 2008), p. 53.Google Scholar

13. The Episcopal Church, Constitutions and Canons (New York: Church House Publishing, 2003), p. 120 and September 19, 2008 letter from the Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on the Deposition of a Bishop, Bishop Robert W. Duncan, http://www.episcopalchurch.org/documents/Duncan.Robert.9.19.08.pdf. Accessed 22 March, 2009.Google Scholar

14. Henry, pp. 230–32.Google Scholar

15. Tanner, Kathryn, Theories of Culture: A New Agenda For Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997), p. 61.Google Scholar

16. Schneider, Laurel, Beyond Monotheism: A Theology of Multiplicity (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 4, 9–10.Google Scholar

17. Keller, Catherine, Nausner, Michael and Rivera, Mayra, Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity and Empire (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2004), p. 11.Google Scholar

18. Adams, Marilyn McCord, ‘Shaking the Foundations: LGBT Bishops and Blessings in the Fullness of Time’, Anglican Theological Review 90.4 (2008), pp. 713—732.Google Scholar

19. Adams, p. 721.Google Scholar

20. Sugirtharajah, R.S., Postcolonial Reconfigurations: An Alternative Way of Reading the Bible and Doing Theology (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2003), p. 126.Google Scholar

21. Adams, pp. 731–32.Google Scholar

22. Adams, p. 714.Google Scholar