I missed the Staff meeting, but the Memos showed that "- .. -- Tim
..-." <timreason@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote on Sat, 10 May 2008 07:36:24
+0100 in alt.religion.christian.episcopal :
>
>"pyotr filipivich" <phamp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>I missed the Staff meeting, but the Memos showed that "Trent Howard"
>> <Trent@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:55:27 GMT in
>> alt.religion.christian.episcopal :
>>>On 16-Jul-2006, "Fred Goodwin, CMA" <fgoodwin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It was with great joy that religious members of the progressive
>>>> movement received, late last month, news of the election of Bishop
>>>> Katharine Jefferts Schori to the top leader****p position in the U.S.
>>>> Episcopal Church. For one, the fact of the bishop's gender heralded
>>>> an im****tant first for Episcopalians, whose rites and rituals cling
>>>> closely to those of the Roman Catholic Church. Furthermore, the
>>>> inclusive position taken by Jefferts Schori with regard to the full
>>>> participation of gays and lesbians in the church sent a powerful
>>>> message to Christian churches around the globe.
>>>
>>>
>>>Thank you Fred.
>>>Wonderful strides were made at General Convention. The mementum is
headed
>>>toward to inclusive, Christful way of life. The many desenters only
call
>>>attention and affirm it.
>>
>> Inclusive. That's the buzz word. The Episcopal Church has
>> become so inclusive, it can't exclude anyone. Gnostics, syncretistic,
>> nestorians, apostates - there is room for all of them in the New
>> Contem****ary Episcopal Church. You don't have to be trapped by
>> antiquated forms of beliefs, what was good enough for the Apostles was
>> just their own cultural expression of the loving one another.
>> Feh, the Anglican churches of the north (US, Canada and the UK) no
>> longer see a need to be bound by such ancient restrictions as Hooker's
>> famous three legged stool of Scripture sup****ted by Tradition and
>> Reason. That's now considered so Ancient History.
>>
>> So the momentum in the Episcopal Church in the US is towards a
>> more inclusive way of life. Inclusive of everyone who doesn't hold to
>> Tradition, it appears. But hey, that's what is im****tant, accepting
>> all people who believe as they will, right? None of that "Christ is
>> risen" mythology, it is so exclusionary, isn't it.
>>
>> Well,have fun wor****pping your god.
>
>Most Church of England Christians believe in the three historic Creeds.
Most may "Believe in", but do they "Believe"? Is the Nicene creed
a true statement of the ancient faith? Or must understanding of it be
subject to modern sensibilities?
More critically, does that "most Church of England Christians"
believe just the Creeds, or do they also believe the other canons of
the E***enical Councils?
Unfortunately, due to the structural makeup of the institution,
what the congregation believe is less im****tant than what the House of
Bishops enact. Abandonment of the traditional understanding of the
faith is no longer an impediment to consecration as Bishop (or
priest), so what does it matter what the congregations believe?
--
pyotr filipivich
Monotheism, someone has said, offers two simple axioms:
1) There is a God.
2) It's not you.
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