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Anglican Studies by Michael Poon

Updated 26 September, 2008

Michael Nai Chiu Poon is director and Asian Christianity coordinator of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia, Trinity Theological College. From 2006-2008, he served as convener of the Global South Anglican Theological Formation and Education Task Force that produced the report Anglican Catechism in Outline: A Common Home Between Us.

He is an honorary canon of Saint Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore. He is convener of the DABOH study group of the International Association for Mission Studies and the Langham Partnership Regional Council of East Asia; and Secretary to the Global South Anglican Theological Network. Michael Poon served in Anglican churches in Hong Kong and Macao from 1984-2004. From 1998 to 2004, he was General Secretary of the Missionary Area of Macao. He moved to Singapore in June 2004.

His main interests are in promoting a more expansive understanding of world Christianity and in offering support for Christians in East Asia to interpret themselves.

2008

The Johannine Awakening: Stirrings for the Post-2008 Anglican Communion
A Personal Observation on the Statement from global South Primates at the Lambeth Conference 2008
The Forgotten Third Voice: Generosity Rebuffed? An Observation on the Second Presidential Address of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Lambeth Conference 2008 (published at Fulcrum)
A Brief Response to Gregory Cameron's Hellins Lecture on Anglicans and the Future of the Communion

The Global South Anglican: its origins and development (published at GSA website and Fulcrum)
A Response to "An Anglican Covenant: the Saint Andrew's Draft" (published at GSA website)
Reaffirming our Vows and Rekindling our first Love: for the Sanctification of the Anglican Communion (published at GSA and Fulcrum websites)

See also:

The Canterbury Declaration of the Global South Anglican Theological Network (1 August 2008) publicly released on 8 September 2008.
Anglican Catechism in Outline (ACIO) Interim Report (the Global South Anglican Theological Formation and Education Task Force Report to the GSA Primates Steering Committee, Epiphany 2008, commended to the Steering Committee to the Communion for feedback, Ash Wednesday 2008). The Final Report, Anglican Catechism in Outline: A Common Home Between Us was released on Barnabas Day, 11 June 2008 (ISBN: 978-981-08-0970-6).

2007

The trivial round, the common task: Sober Notes to Dr Radner (published at GSA website)
A Very Godly Order: A Response to Ephraim Radner's Making Promises: the Proposed Anglican Covenant in the Life of the Communion (published at GSA website)
The Ways of Obedience: Scripture and the Global South (published at GSA Website)
Reconstructing GC2006 for Communion Building: Further Comments on the Communion Sub-group Report (published at GSA Website)
A Confused Report: Initial Comments on the Communion Sub-group Report (published at GSA Website)
The Long Road to Full Inheritance: Anglican Communion, Anno Domini 2007 (published at GSA Website)

2006

Quo Vadis? Questions along the Road from Lambeth A Response to CAPA’s Invitation (published at GSA website)
Towards Rapprochement: A note of appreciation to Dr Ephraim Radner's "Communion's Martyred Depth" (published at GSA website)
Into deeper Levels of Communion and Interdependence in the Anglican Communion (published at GSA Website)
The Gift Outright: A Response to Bishop Mark MacDonald on our Communion Future; Bishop MacDonald's article (posted by his kind permission) (published at GSA website)
Daybreak at Kigali - Horizons before the Anglican Global South Primates in September 2006 (published at GSA website)
Till they have homes: Christian responsibilities in the twenty-first century (published at GSA website)
Fellowship of the Ring Bearers: Rowan Cantuar's Ascent to Beijing 2006 (published at GSA website)
Holding onto the Works of Love: A Response to Ephraim Radner and ACI on the Anglican Communion (published at GSA website)
How much is the Global South worth: Response to the Anglican Communion Institute on GC2006 (published at GSA website)
Gathering as the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church around Jesus Christ: A response to ECUSA decisions at the General Convention 2006 (published at GSA website)
Striving for the Soul of the Communion: It is not a World Cup Football Match (published at GSA website)
Contrapuntal Notes to Rowan Cantuar's Music: A Response to the Consultation Paper on the Covenant Proposal of the Windsor Report, March 2006 (published at GSA website)
On Being Servants for the Greater Cause: A Response to Stephen Noll on Rowan Cantuar (published at GSA website).
Farewell to Babel: Rowan Cantuar as Servant of Unity of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Communion (published at GSA website)

2005

Deliver us from 'Corporate Perversion': A Conversation with Drs Ephraim Radner and Graham Kings on the State of our Communion (published at GSA website)
The Tragic Loss of Bishop Joseph Hoare (in Chinese) (published at Wangluo, Diocese of Hong Kong Island)
Our Confidence is in God: A brotherly rejoinder to David Edwards' Open Letter about Western Values (published at GSA website)
Revisiting the Global South Communiqué Focusing on the Fundamentals (published at GSA website)
Making Sense of the Coming of Age of the Church of the Global South: A Message to Anglican Friends in Canada and the United Kingdom (published at Fulcrum website)
Situating Florence Li Tian'ai, the first Anglican Woman Priest, in her Historical Context (in Chinese) (Diocesan Echo, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui)
A Historical Note on William Topley Humphrey: Insight into the Beginnings of Saint Andrew's Mission in Singapore
The Church is One: An exploratory essay
Prayer Book Translation and the Birth of 'Sheng Kung Hui' (in Chinese) (Diocesan Echo, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui)

2004

Maintaining the Bonds of Affection and the Discovering of Objects of Love: An East Asian Response to the Windsor Report 2004 (published at Fulcrum website)
What does the Communion mean for the world today? The Recovering of Horizons for the Communion (Diocesan Echo, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui)
A Community Submissive to Christ: An Appreciation of Dr Tong Tak Cheung (in Chinese) (Diocesan Echo, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui)
Reflections on the Issue of Remarriage and the State of the Anglican Communion (Diocesan Echo, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui)

2003

A Call for Theological Reflection: Response to John Riches Martin Lectures Hong Kong 2003 (in Chinese) (Diocesan Echo, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui)
The Communion post November 2 2003: Self Examination from East Asia (published at Fulcrum website)
The Story of Luo Shenyuan, the first Chinese Anglican Deacon in South China (in Chinese) (Diocesan Echo, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui)