Steve Hayes's Page

I'm not Anglican, I'm Orthodox, so I'd better explain what I'm doing here.

I'm trying to do some historical research into the effects of the charismatic renewal movement on southern African Christianity. If you are interested you can rerad more about it in Notes from underground: Research: charismatic renewal movement in South Africa and also in this article on A conspiracy of silence in South African Church history. I was just wondering if any southern African refugees from the charismatic movement had ended up in the Anglimergent camp, and if any might be willing to talk about it.

As I noted in the second article referred to above

In 1973 Godfrey Ashby, also an academic, but from a different school of thought than the “English-speaking churches” school, said that there were three forces shaping the life of the Anglican Church in the Eastern Cape at that time: group dynamics, challenge groups and the charismatic renewal. movement. Many people seemed to back one of those and scorn the others, but he said they needed all of them. He said all three were affecting the churches, and that there were some Anglo-Catholics who were alienated from the charismatic movement, and some Evangelicals (mainly non-Anglican) who were pietist, and alienated from the challenge group thing, but generally all three were causing a real turmoil and revival in the church.

Godfrey Ashby was a biblical scholar rather than a church historian, and later became a bishop, but his comment leaves a lot of unanswered questions, and I'm hoping I might find some people who can help me answer them.