ABSTRACT
Church leaders were undoubtedly not habituated to the fast pace of global Anglican disagreements, key institutions of the Church of England and the Anglican Communion were also slow to develop the necessary infrastructure for working effectively in this new world. Different Christian traditions have attempted to resolve the contradiction in various ways, but the particularities of Anglicanism's response to the contradiction is an important part of the story of the recent conflicts over homosexuality in the Church - and this tension been intensified in a globalizing world. Roughly a quarter of the Provinces that are now part of the Anglican Communion have never been part of the British Empire; their communion with the See of Canterbury has always been a matter of the 'bonds of affection', rather than of obedience to a colonial master. Because within the Anglican family, it began as a family with two basic traditions, the Catholic or the otherwise the Catholic and the Reformed.
