Lambeth Resolutions Quiz: how do you score?

Anglicans Online has been looking into resolutions from previous Lambeth Conferences and found enough to make a quiz for your summer entertainment:


It is undeniably the silly season in the Northern hemisphere. Where better to find a degree of silliness than when bishops gather?

We've found much wonderfulness in the various resolutions of Lambeth Conferences past and have plucked 20 of our favourites for a quiz. (It was hard to limit ourselves to just 20, but we're a disciplined crew.) See if you can guess the general drift of each resolution based on the clues.

Ready? Steady? Go!

1878

1. What is the principal bond of union among all our Churches? Answer

2. Churches should behave in what way towards 'the duly certified action of every national or particular Church, and each ecclesiastical province in the exercise of its own discipline'? Answer

1888

3. What food was described as unwarranted by Our Lord and an unauthorised departure from the custom of the Catholic Church? Answer

6. What habit was 'most strongly deprecated'? Answer

7. What was advised against strongly with regard to the Book of Common Prayer? Answer

1897

9. What course was recommended with respect to Lambeth resolutions? Answer

1908

14. With regard to race relations, what did the Conference see as 'inconsistent' with the 'principle of unity'? Answer

15. As long as they were 'free from all heathen and idolatrous taint' and lifelong, what could national and local churches adopt? Answer


Take the whole quiz at Anglicans Online.

So how did you do?
17-20 correct:
You must be a bishop!

13-16 correct:
You must be musing about what it would be like to be a bishop.

9-12 correct:
Congratulate yourself for knowing a surprising amount about the way bishops think.

5-9 correct:
You should think about attending the next Lambeth Conference, to take notes.

1-5 correct:
You are to be congratulated for gamely trying.

Posted by Ann Fontaine on July 20, 2010 6:00 PM | |
Comments (4)

Um, Ann, the link to Anglicans Online that you posted is wrong. We are, as always, at



http://anglicansonline.org/

Posted by Brian Reid [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 20, 2010 8:50 PM

Thanks Brian - I changed the links - I was trying to use a more permanent link to that page.

Posted by Ann Fontaine [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 20, 2010 9:02 PM

Well, that was fun! (No, I didn't score very well!) Now that the binding force of Lambeth resolutions has been firmly established....

My favorite was:

1888
Question: What was advised against strongly with regard to the Book of Common Prayer?
Answer: The revision of the BCP by any part of the church without considering the results of the revision on the other parts.

Of course, we promptly revised our Prayer Book in 1892. (Oh, those Yanks! They just will not behave, will they?)

Has the AO gang asked +Rowan to take this quiz?

Posted by Bill Moorhead [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 20, 2010 10:01 PM

I'm surprised the scoring appears to indicate the episcopate and knowledge of church history necessarily coincide!

Posted by tobias haller [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 21, 2010 4:42 PM

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