Peter Carnley

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The Right Reverend

Peter Carnley

AC
Archbishop of Perth
Peter Carnley, Perth, 2019 (01).jpg
Carnley in 2019
Church Anglican Church of Australia
Province Western Australia
Diocese Perth
Installed26 May 1981
Term ended26 May 2005
Predecessor Geoffrey Sambell
Successor Roger Herft
Other post(s)
Orders
Ordination
  • 1962 (as deacon)
  • 1964 (as priest)
Consecration26 May 1981
Personal details
Born
Peter Frederick Carnley

(1937-10-17) 17 October 1937 (age 85)
New Lambton, New South Wales
Nationality Australian
SpouseAnn Carnley
Children2
Education Young High School
Alma mater

Peter Frederick Carnley AC (born 17 October 1937) is a retired Australian Anglican bishop and author. He was the Archbishop of Perth from 1981 to 2005 and Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia from 2000 until May 2005. He ordained the first women priests in Australia. In the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours list, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia. [1] He is married to Ann Carnley. [2] He also founded the school Peter Carnley Anglican Community School.

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Education and teaching

Carnley was born in New Lambton, New South Wales. He trained for ordination at St John's College, Morpeth, and was ordained deacon in 1962 and priest in 1964. [3] He studied in Australia at Trinity College, Melbourne, and in England at Emmanuel College and St John's College, Cambridge, and became warden of St John's College at the University of Queensland, as well as lecturer in theology at the University of Queensland, [4] before becoming a bishop. As a lecturer in the 1970s he experimented with Process Theology. He holds many honorary doctorates and a Lambeth DD (2012) and is an honorary fellow of Trinity College (Melbourne), Emmanuel College (Cambridge) and St John's College (Cambridge).

Ordination of women

Carnley was consecrated a bishop on 26 May 1981 at St George's Cathedral, Perth and installed there as Archbishop of Perth and Metropolitan of Western Australia in the same service. [5] In the 1980s he supported the ordination of women and, on 7 March 1992, he ordained the first women priests in the Anglican Church of Australia at St George's Cathedral, Perth. His sermon on the occasion took as its reference an autobiographical piece by Charlotte Perkins Gilman entitled The Yellow Wallpaper . Carnley used Gilman's account of the self-destruction consequent on a "benignly prescribed, submissive, middle-class role" demanded of women in the 19th century to consider the "implications of the philosophy that women should "stay in their place, maintaining silence, concealing problems and repressing creativity". The yellow wallpaper of the title is what the imprisoned protagonist in Gilman's story peels off the walls as she goes mad. Carnley used it as a metaphor for the situation of the women who had been waiting to be allowed to become priests, saying: "Today, we are peeling away the sickly yellow, faded, silverfish-ridden wallpaper with which the church has surrounded itself and imprisoned women for centuries past in its benign and perhaps well-meaning determination to confine them by role." [6]

Ecumenism

From 2004 he served as co-chair of the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC II) seeking greater unity between the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He served as distinguished visiting professor in systematic theology at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City from 2010 to 2013.

In 2001, amid questions about the possibility of the church celebrating same-sex marriages, Carnley suggested that the church might be able to bless gay "friendships". [7] Later, Carnley acknowledged that the consecration of American Bishop Gene Robinson created controversy in the church, but predicted that the church would not be irreparably split over the issue. [8]

Controversy

In The structure of resurrection belief Carnley outlines several different ways Christians frame their belief in the resurrection of Christ and the way the resurrection frames their faith. He explores notions of the resurrection as an historical event, as an eschatological event and as a non-event. He also explores the role of memory, presence and faith in believing in the resurrection.

When Carnley became the Australian primate, his views caused controversy with some, especially in the conservative Diocese of Sydney where Archbishop Harry Goodhew accused Carnley of breaching church doctrine and betraying the church's belief in the significance of the resurrection and of Jesus Christ himself. [9] Others, including Phillip Jensen, Rector of St Matthias, Centennial Park in Sydney, objected to comments about how the Christian belief in the uniqueness of Christ had been misused to persecute people of other faiths. [10] Some church leaders, especially within the Diocese of Sydney, called for a boycott of Carnley's installation as primate, but Archbishop Goodhew rejected such calls, which he said would be tantamount to severing relations with the rest of the church. [11]

Carnley says he believes in the uniqueness of Christ: "I think Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life, but that doesn't mean that other religions don't have any truth at all." [12]

He also says he has an Easter (or resurrection) faith in the real presence of the living Jesus: "The Christian story, which pre-eminently transmits and celebrates the memory of Jesus and God’s revelatory deed in and through his life and death, should lead us beyond itself to a living encounter with the real presence of all that it celebrates and rehearses: him, whom by story we recall, we actually know as the living Spirit of the fellowship of faith." [13] He also asserted that the resurrection is "the miracle of the Christian tradition". [14]

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  5. ↑ "Archived copy". www.anglicanarchives.org.au. Archived from the original on 25 May 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ↑ Carnley, Peter (2001). The Yellow Wallpaper and other sermons. Sydney: HarperCollins. p. 87. ISBN   1-86371-799-4.
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