tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post5013009724674367622..comments2024-03-30T00:33:32.285+13:00Comments on Anglican Down Under: I cannot find the word 'marriage': can you?Peter Carrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-42509267661793580022009-09-02T19:50:35.328+12:002009-09-02T19:50:35.328+12:00"That would be Canute and the ebbing tide of ..."That would be Canute and the ebbing tide of the sea of faith ... :)"<br /><br />No, that was Capute (Kaputt) or Cupitt or Stupitt, something like that. The floodtide (kataklusmos) was flowing the other way for Canute.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-51555933645569842882009-09-02T06:51:32.698+12:002009-09-02T06:51:32.698+12:00That would be Canute and the ebbing tide of the se...That would be Canute and the ebbing tide of the sea of faith ... :)Peter Carrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-65970638768885465262009-09-01T23:31:55.160+12:002009-09-01T23:31:55.160+12:00There's not reference to 'Jesus' or &#...There's not reference to 'Jesus' or 'Christianity' either. I am tempted to say this is a roundup of the usual suspects - Metropolitan Community Church, Universal Unitarians, liberal protestants - but there is also a sprinkling of ex-evangelicals like Nancy Hardesty who have followed the logic of feminism into affirming same sex relationships.<br />When we move from the text of Scripture (as inspired utterance) into abstracted, 'degenderized' principles ('love' 'respect', 'rights' etc), then we cease to consider what it means that the human race is dimorphic and what the male-female relationship constituted in creation signifies.<br />That is why there is no reference to "marriage".<br />This is one of the critical weaknesses of Protestant (including evangelical) theology today: gender indifferentism. Catholic and Orthodox theology are mcuh more reflective on this than the average Protestant today (and I comment here as an evangelical). I have resisted drawing any connection between WO and SSB's, but I feel more like Canute each day.<br />Anon1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-66644685939581212252009-09-01T22:27:59.477+12:002009-09-01T22:27:59.477+12:00It does beggar belief!It does beggar belief!Peter Carrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-15981994545307113552009-09-01T20:14:49.208+12:002009-09-01T20:14:49.208+12:00Peter, many thanks for this.
The absence of any...Peter, many thanks for this. <br /><br />The absence of any reference to marriage is staggering. 2 millenia of Christian reflection on sexuality are simply pushed aside in order to affirm an understanding of sexuality that has little or no grounding in the Christian tradition.<br /><br />The opening line is also worth considering: "Sexuality is God's life-giving and life-fulfilling gift". One is tempted to say that for Christians the Holy Spirit is God's life-giving gift! <br /><br />Also staggering is the reference to abortion, celebrating it as "a faith based commitment". Yes, Christians can debate how we should respond to legal abortion in many of our societies. But to affirm abortion ...?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com