Peter Carnley

Peter Carnley

The Most Reverend Dr Peter Carnley AO (1937-) was the Archbishop of Perth, Australia from 1981 to 2005 and was Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia from 2000 until July 2005. He was born in New Lambton, New South Wales and became warden of St John's College at the University of Queensland before he became a bishop.

He studied in Australia at Trinity College, Melbourne and in England at St John's College, Cambridge. As a lecturer in the 1970s he experimented with Process Theology.

In the 1980s he supported the ordination of women and ordained the first women priests in the Anglican Church of Australia in Perth, saying, "Today, we are peeling away the sickly yellow, faded, silverfish-ridden wallpaper with which the church has surrounded itself and imprisoned women for centuries past in its benign and perhaps well-meaning determination to confine them by role." [ [http://trushare.com/0105Feb04/FE04OZ.htm A Complex Man ] ]

In 2001, amidst questions about the possibility of the church celebrating same-sex marriage, Carnley cautiously suggested the church might be able to bless gay "friendships".

In 2003 Peter Carnley led a united front of all Australian Anglican bishops except Peter Jensen of Sydney in opposing the Australian Government's involvement in the invasion of Iraq.Fact|date=February 2007

Since the 1980s he has also served as co-chair of the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC II) seeking greater union and even full communion between the roman Catholic Church and Anglican Communion.

These range of views and actions has led to him being described as "liberal-minded".

Books

Carnely is notably the author of a study of the Resurrection of Jesus, "The Structure of Resurrection Belief" (Clarendon Press, 1987). In it he outlines several different ways Christians frame their belief in the resurrection and the way the resurrection frames their faith. He explores notions of the resurrection as an historical event, as an eschatological event and as a non-event. It also explores the role of memory, presence and faith in believing the resurrection.

When Carnley was elevated to Primate in Australia, this book caused controversy, with some saying it showed Carnley himself did not believe in the resurrection. Others objected to comments about how the Christian belief in the uniqueness of Christ had been misused to persecute people of other faiths.

Carnley says he believes in the uniqueness of Christ: "I think Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life, but that doesn't mean that other religions don't have any truth at all." [http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s121462.htm 7.30 Report - 26/4/2000: Controversy over new Anglican primates views ] ] He also says he has an Easter (or resurrection) faith in the real presence of the living Jesus:"The Christian story, which pre-eminently transmits and celebrates the memory of Jesus and God’s revelatory deed in and through his life and death, should lead us beyond itself to a living encounter with the real presence of all that it celebrates and rehearses: him, whom by story we recall, we actually know as the living Spirit of the fellowship of faith." ["The Structure of Resurrection Belief" (Clarendon Press, 1987) p364]

Notes

External links

* [http://www.perth.anglican.org/archbishop/about.htm perth.anglican.org]


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