“Am I alone in thinking that at the root of those clashes … lies the failure of succeeding generations of Anglicans to accept that there are parameters to divergence in scriptural interpretation?” Archbishop Robin Eames of Ireland asked on Wednesday as he delivered the 2005 Pitt Lecture at the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, USA.

Division has marked the 77-million-member Anglican Communion since 2004, when the Episcopal Church U.S.A. ordained an openly gay bishop and the Anglican Church in Canada allowed the blessing of same-sex marriages. Anglicans in the more conservative South rejected those actions and has since broken ties with their North American counterparts.

In addressing this break-up of “World Anglicanism,” Eames said the change threatens the nature of the Anglican structure since it would give authority to each individual province on deciding what is right and wrong rather than being united under the Archbishop of Canterbury.

While acknowledging the concerns of both liberals and conservatives, Eames implied that unity and reconciliation is of a greater priority than internal differences.

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