tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356363460965043698.post8800941680693437836..comments2023-12-24T00:52:24.736+00:00Comments on Jody Stowell: more on gafconJody Stowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15534042687275254272noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356363460965043698.post-34549173531619594842008-07-01T14:15:00.000+01:002008-07-01T14:15:00.000+01:00You're right to be suspicious, as I am, to use Ste...You're right to be suspicious, as I am, to use Stehen Kuhrt's words in his explanation of the support he gave Tom Butler in the Coekin case: <BR/><BR/>Any alliance will further promote the behaviour of the Conservative Evangelical 'closed shop', the<BR/>"very un-Anglican norm that contact and collaboration are only necessary with those Christians with whom they wish to have contact and collaboration."<BR/><BR/>This is a closed shop of reading certain authors, study books etc and never 'risking' a look at the 'other'. I have become quite good at discerning what literature and theories come originally from a Reform perspective, whereas I used to google the publisher or writer to confirm my suspicions, I have now developed more of an instinct for it. In some ways, it's a shame, because it's making me more cynical, I'm always asking myself questions as to what their agenda might be when actually many Conservative Evangelicals might only be wanting fellowship.Rev R Marszalekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831340057673771787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356363460965043698.post-50014940567884053012008-07-01T11:36:00.000+01:002008-07-01T11:36:00.000+01:00hi rachi think that the difficulty for me is that ...hi rach<BR/><BR/>i think that the difficulty for me is that i suspect a (not so) hidden agenda of exclusion of those of us who cannot sign up to the whole shebang (particularly women's ordination, specific atonement theories, or how we understand evangelism) - also who decides, and how do they decide which bishop is or is not orthodox? it seems to be a way in which to justify 'doing what they want, when they want', I am thinking particularly of Richard Coekin and his irregular ordinations.......Jody Stowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15534042687275254272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356363460965043698.post-18868233764729868142008-07-01T11:21:00.000+01:002008-07-01T11:21:00.000+01:00I, like many Anglicans the world over, have few pr...I, like many Anglicans the world over, have few problems with the Jerusalem Declaration. It does, of course, mean I would have to do my homework, if ever I was asked to consider it. I want to find out more about the 39 articles and the canons, the ordinal and the original prayer book. Of course, I will have to look into these things, as I consider over the next few years a career in the C of E. All Anglicans should of course, be familiar with the doctrinal stance to which they're subscribing, else why be an Anglican, particularly. We must be in a minority of people, who because we have often been born into a faith, the faith of our country of birth, have often spent less time on the small print of the most important aspect of our lives, realising that we may have indeed dwelt for longer on the finer details of those finer aspects of our mortgage agreements.<BR/><BR/>It is time that I got my house in order and I don't mean by tidying it up and hanging out the washing. Having said that, I will never manage to get my spiritual house in order, I will be trying for the whole of my life and failing because of my sinfulness, preoccupations and prejudices. This is why it is sometimes with such a huge sense of relief, that I 'switch off the blog and go and do something less boring instead' (quote from TV theme tune of my youth). What a joy it can be to simply, pick-up, put away and stack the dishwasher! It's not long though before I'm back to my spiritual searches and quests to deepen my understanding and relationship with God and his beautiful, if rather, bruised Church. Being free in Christ, to be all you really can be, is really rather exhausting! <BR/><BR/>I have difficulties with their insistence on a plain reading of the Bible, I don't believe there is such a thing and suspect their 'plain' reading to be one that requires more emphasis on repentance for homosexuality than other sins and one that prohibits women in leadership.Rev R Marszalekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831340057673771787noreply@blogger.com