tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post5587225970989976163..comments2024-03-28T22:29:52.666+13:00Comments on Anglican Down Under: No waning here of enthusiasm for an Anglican CovenantPeter Carrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-65851164811759786582009-04-07T07:02:00.000+12:002009-04-07T07:02:00.000+12:00Well, as the little old Jewish woman said in Berli...Well, as the little old Jewish woman said in Berlin in 1933 about the Kirchenkampf, 'Arianism, Aryanism, who cares as long as He loves His Mother?'<BR/><BR/>(My taseless version of this old joke:<BR/>'How's your son the lawyer, Mrs Finkelstein?'<BR/>'I'm worried, Mrs Mandelbaum - the doctor says he has an "oedipus complex."'<BR/>'Oy, oedipus, schmoedipus, who cares as long as he loves his mother?'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-68131238625196904652009-04-07T06:52:00.000+12:002009-04-07T06:52:00.000+12:00I thought we were still battling Arianism in the c...I thought we were still battling Arianism in the church :)Peter Carrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-70374617338659691002009-04-06T23:44:00.000+12:002009-04-06T23:44:00.000+12:00"It's true that the Anglican Covenant could go the..."It's true that the Anglican Covenant could go the same way as the doctrinal standards we have had that have been ignored more than adhered to."<BR/><BR/>We have been here before. It's worth remembering that the struggle against ecclesiastical Arianism went on for nearly 60 years in Italy and the Eastern empire *after Nicea had determined the doctrine, while political Arianism (the Visigoths) remained a force in Spain until the conversion of Recared in the 6th century. At least they didn't have Islam to deal with then! If Spain had been Arian rather than Catholic when the Moors arrived in 711, I suspect there never would have been a Reconquista.<BR/>I can't feel too optimistic about Anglicanism's 'partners' in places like Sweden, where a a secular, feminist, pro-homosexual ideology dominates much of that church.<BR/>However, the real question for Anglicans and the endless saga of the Covenant (which Tec and Canada will ignore in any case) is whether the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, birthed at Gafcon and getting its England launch in London in July, will chart the course for the future. I do suspect that Nazir-Ali, that old protege of John Stott, will have a significant role in this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com