tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468413.post7932256487219741910..comments2023-08-15T05:58:12.859-05:00Comments on Wannabe Anglican: The Episcopal Church HOB Clears Way for More Gay Bishops *YAWN*Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02059920222709764278noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468413.post-88607165896792685222009-07-14T19:51:57.155-05:002009-07-14T19:51:57.155-05:00Robin,
The Episcopal Church is under the sway of ...Robin,<br /><br />The Episcopal Church is under the sway of its arrogance, and so has fallen into heresy. The Continuing Anglican Church's particular sin is self-righteousness, and so they tend towards schism.<br /><br />I do not believe that we, as Christians can ever have anything to do with heretics, except as prophets and evangelists. But the proper approach to schismatics is charity. All of our wounds are tender. A place that should have been a haven has been found to be full of traps. Our mother has turned on her own young.<br /><br />I think we need to be kind to one another.mousestalkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07640977915382623244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468413.post-82014807166933955552009-07-14T14:53:53.021-05:002009-07-14T14:53:53.021-05:00Stand Firm is now operating from its back-up blogs...Stand Firm is now operating from its back-up blogsite until the server problem is remedied:<br /><br />http://standfirmlive.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6468413.post-75185454986944590562009-07-14T12:37:28.631-05:002009-07-14T12:37:28.631-05:00Mark,
In my experience such public worrying is a ...Mark,<br /><br />In my experience such public worrying is a form of fear-mongering. It put pressure on the HOB as did packing the galleries with gays and lesbians and those sympathetic to their cause. Other groupings with quite different aims from the GLBT alliance do the same thing. <br /><br />On TitusOneNine an Anglo-Catholic poster wrote a lengthy post attacking me and an article I had written, in which I called for a new set of Fundamental Declarations for the ACNA that were not aligned with a particular theological grouping like the present ones. The poster in question voiced the fear that Anglo-Catholics were about to be purged from the ACNA, as he had predicted 9 years before due to his alleged experience with the AMiA. <br /><br />However, my own knowledge of the AMiA did not support his prognostications of a purge of Anglo-Catholics from the ACNA. The AMiA has special provisions in its Solemn Declaration of Principles that protect the right of Anglo-Catholics in the AMiA to engage in such practices as benediction. The AMiA banned women priests. It adopted two service books that are fairly Catholic in tone. One or more of its bishops are Anglo-Catholic. Its clerical representative on the Governance Task Force is a fairly conservative Anglo-Catholic. The canons of the Province of Rwanda under which the AMiA operates is Catholic in doctrine; its own canonical charter is Catholic in order with a primatial vicar governing the AMiA with the help of a Council of Missionary Bishops: the AMiA has nothing like a synod with clerical and lay members. <br /><br />A number of the ACNA bishops are Anglo-Catholic. The ACNA constitution and canons favors the Catholic position on a number of key issues. FIFNA has its own jurisdiction. The notion of a purge of Anglo-Catholics from the ACNA was ludicrous. <br /><br />Nowhere in my article did I say anything that even suggested I advocated a purge of Anglo-Catholics from the ACNA. On the contrary, I called for a new set of Fundamental Declarations that was not aligned with any particular theological group in the ACNA and which made room traditionalist Anglo-Catholics as well as conservative evangelicals in the ACNA. Whether intentionally or not the poster in question was engaging in fear-mongering.Robin G. Jordanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09511384478845569163noreply@blogger.com