Posted on 09/17/2007 5:30:35 PM PDT by Stoat
I am not so sure this is a bad idea, Dostoevsky, more than nearly any other writer writes about the reality and terror of evil. His Grand Inquisitor scene in The Brothers Karamazov, the murderer in Crime and Punishment, and the revolutionaries in The Possessed (The Devils), all may prepare the Archbishop to meet with the homosexual activists destroying.his church.
Remember though, that Episcopalians going Anglican are still, like all in the Anglican Communion in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury... He’s not with pope-like authority, but definitely is a first among equals.
It is amazing that a man as brilliant as Williams (and by all accounts, he’s a near-genius..) can’t seem to understand scripture’s clear delineation of godly sexual behavior.
Liberal theology is a cancer for sure.
While studying at Durham University, Durham, England, I ran into many Anglican priests and ministers. I was told by nearly all of them that at least 75% of the clergy in England were homosexual, and nearly all the Anglo-Catholics. If this is true, and I believe that it is, you can see the problem that Dr. Williams faces. This situation, at least in America, began with Bishop Pike when the Episcopal church declared that there was no such thing as heresy. If you want to see what liberalism does to a denomination, just keep your eye on the Anglicans. It should prove instructive.
These are mutually exclusive as homosexuality is proscribed by all Catholic theology whether Eastern or Western. More likely these homosexuals had some renegade theology or another that included playing dress-up.
As well as a desire to place themselves in a position of trust and reverence so that they might more easily manipulate and take advantage of young boys.
How very, very sad. Thanks so much for your firsthand account.
I hadn't heard about that....thanks very much for posting.
You're VERY RIGHT!!!! It HAPPENED, in all its grotesquery, heresy, and schismaticism, at the so-called "goodsoil eucharist" at the ELCA Churchwide Assembly! This cracked liturgy was not secret, and it was presided over by a sitting synodical bishop (that's the schismatic part).
Mere prancing around the chancel without having an O/orthodox heart is empty and blasphemous indeed!!!!
“Windswept House” may have been right all along.
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