May 18,
2007.
Due to an error in the creation of the PDF of “Evaluating the
Draft Covenant,” most users will not be able to print from the
original file. The file has now been updated, and printing
should no longer be a problem. PEP regrets any inconvenience
this error may have caused.
May 21,
2007.
A new edition of “Evaluating the Draft Covenant” is now
available. It corrects minor errors in the annotated version of
the draft covenant.
May 27,
2007.
A new edition removes a stray line from page 18. |
May 15, 2007.
Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh (PEP) recently made available a
Microsoft Word worksheet on which to answer the 14 questions about the draft
Anglican covenant posed in the Executive Council’s Study Guide.
(The worksheet can be found
here.)
 PEP is pleased to make another resource available as part of its
ministry to all Episcopalians. It has created a collection of documents
called “Evaluating the Draft Covenant,” which
can be downloaded below.
“Evaluating the Draft Covenant” contains the Study Guide from the
Executive Council, the Covenant Design Group report with the draft
covenant itself, the Windsor Report with its own covenant draft, and
background materials like the “Historical Documents of the Church”
section of the prayer book.
“Evaluating the Draft Covenant”
makes all the documents people are most likely to want to examine when
responding to the Study Guide, including a few
obscure ones and two items not available
elsewhere. One of these is a compilation of all the scripture cited in the
covenant draft. (There is, as it turns out, a lot of it, and its nature
is instructive.) The other special item in the collection is a set of
annotations of the draft covenant by Dr. Joan R. Gundersen, church
historian and PEP president. Even readers who may not share Dr. Gundersen’s perspective on church matters will appreciate the facts she
presents in her annotated version of the Covenant Design Group’s report.
The document is in PDF form, and users are strongly urged to use Adobe
Acrobat or Adobe Reader (the latter available free from Adobe Systems
Incorporated
here) to view it, rather than other viewers, such as Preview for the
Macintosh, which may not support bookmarks, which are used to simplify
navigation through the 200-page document.
Click
here to send comments and questions about “Evaluating the Draft
Covenant.”
PEP’s press release about this document and the Study Guide worksheet
can be read here.
DOWNLOAD
“Evaluating the Draft Covenant”
The
above document contains the scripture cited in the draft covenant from
the Authorized Version. Should you prefer to read those references from
the New Revised Standard Version, you may want to download the document
below, which has been made available to PEP for distribution.
DOWNLOAD
“Anglican Covenant Scripture References (NRSV)”
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