The full text of the Seattle Statement, Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ is now available on the web in several places:
Vatican copy
Canadian copy or in French
As yet it has not appeared on the ACO website, but this page contains an address by Nicholas Sagovsky delivered in the Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster Abbey on 19 May, and a homily by Cardinal Walter Kasper preached at Vespers in All Saints Anglican Church in Rome on 22 May.
The most balanced Anglican analysis so far is the Fulcrum response to the statement which is here.
A Vatican commentary on the document can be found here.
Earlier TA items can be found here and here.
Posted by Simon Sarmiento on Wednesday, 1 June 2005 at 9:06pm BSTGood to see a link available now. Thanks!
Posted by: Mark on Wednesday, 1 June 2005 at 10:07pm BSTThis 'Vatican' commentary by Jared Wicks, s.j. is very helpful in giving an early Roman Catholic receptive perspective.
As our Fulcrum response makes clear in its conclusion, however, it highlights the methodological issues of authority.
It may be worth comparing a key paragraph in Wicks' commentary with a paragraph in 'The Windsor Report':
'Catholics have certainty about the truth of the doctrines [of the Immaculate Conception and Assumption]. This exemplifies what Vatican II said while treating Tradition and the Magisterium, namely, “the church does not draw its certainty about all revealed truths from Holy Scripture alone” (DV 9). The living tradition fostered growth in Catholic understanding of God’s economy, and the Papal Magisterium, in 1854 and 1950, defined the two truths as constitutive parts of this economy. Tradition and Magisterium interacted to give certainty about Marian contents of revelation.'
(Jared Wicks s.j.)
'Within Anglicanism, scripture has always been recognised as the Church's supreme authority, and as such ought to be seen as a focus and means of unity. The emphasis on scripture grew not least from the insistence of the early Anglican reformers on the importance of the Bible and the Fathers over against what they saw as illegitimate mediaeval developments; it was part of their appeal to ancient undivided Christian faith and life. The seventeenth and eighteenth century divines hammered out their foundations of “scripture, tradition and reason”; in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries we have seen the 'Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral', in which scripture takes first place.' (The Windsor Report, para 53).
Para 54 of The Windsor Report, with the key phrase 'the authority of the triune God exercised through scripture', is elucidated at length in N T Wright's new book 'Scripture and the Authority of God' (SPCK), which originated in background papers written for the Lambeth Commission.
http://www.chbookshop.co.uk/product.asp?id=2385092