Fulcrum is a
think tank
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based around the
evangelical centre-ground of the
Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the State religion#State churches, established List of Christian denominations, Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglicanism, Anglican Christian tradition, ...
. Formed in 2002, ''Fulcrum'' aims to renew the moderate centre of the evangelical tradition in the Church of England.
Fulcrum is normally viewed as representative of the
open evangelical tradition within the Church of England.
History
Fulcrum was co-founded by
Francis Bridger,
Graham Kings and others in response to strong and extreme responses from some evangelical quarters of the Church of England to the appointment of
Rowan Williams as
Archbishop of Canterbury. In 2003 the first official meeting of Fulcrum took place and the appointments of Chair, vice-chairs, administrator and theological advisor were made.
The equivalent organization in the
Episcopal Church of the USA is ''Covenant'', an organization which aims to renew the centre of the Christian tradition in North America and particularly within Anglicanism.
Purpose
A fulcrum is the point of balance in a pivot. Fulcrum chose this name because it seeks to renew the evangelical tradition at the centre of the
Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the State religion#State churches, established List of Christian denominations, Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglicanism, Anglican Christian tradition, ...
. According to its website, "Fulcrum embraces an historic orthodoxy that is generous in spirit, confident in the contribution evangelicals can make to Anglicanism".
In the current climate of uncertainty in the
Anglican Communion, Fulcrum seeks to promote an unpolarised evangelicalism.
It has been described as a "moderate evangelical grouping
..which was formed, really, in order to uphold the prohibition on gay sex but to
welcome women priests".
Publications
Fulcrum publishes articles regularly through its website on a wide range of issues that affect the Church of England.
Fulcrum does not publish a journal outside of its website, but the journal ''Anvil'' is representative of the constituency associated with Fulcrum.
References
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Anglican organizations