tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post1939533497397680395..comments2024-03-29T22:00:02.999+13:00Comments on Anglican Down Under: PlaceholderPeter Carrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-40211987266945372072016-05-17T22:23:22.807+12:002016-05-17T22:23:22.807+12:00Bowman: Synod is as Synod does. Wait for the next ...Bowman: Synod is as Synod does. Wait for the next Episode (2018).Father Ron Smithhttp://kiwiangloo.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-2713499466726047912016-05-15T09:43:44.424+12:002016-05-15T09:43:44.424+12:00Indeed he did not, Peter; to show that he could no...Indeed he did not, Peter; to show that he could not was his point. But with kings as with synods, modesty succeeds where magic fails. Canute established the four earldoms, and that has ordered affairs far from Dover.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_waves<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed<br /><br />Bowman Walton<br /><br /><br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-51545333799220229362016-05-15T09:05:35.255+12:002016-05-15T09:05:35.255+12:00Neither, Bowman, did King Canute hold back the tid...Neither, Bowman, did King Canute hold back the tide!Peter Carrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-61618756295504580472016-05-15T08:53:32.528+12:002016-05-15T08:53:32.528+12:00Some readers may not quite follow this, Peter, but...Some readers may not quite follow this, Peter, but on any given topic, there is some brilliant and illumining daylight between the questions How Should A Right-Thinking Person Feel About This Great Topic Of The Day? and Does Any Single Synod Have Supernatural Powers To Decide This? Considering all of the reported actions of your recent General Synod, you, and others who do see this daylight, may find it very worthwhile to discuss it.<br /><br />A less superstitious view of the divine inspiration of committee work and plenary voting could do much to ease the anguish of those Anglicans who, for example, are "shocked," "pained," "outraged," etc that the recent synod in Parador failed to denounce Donald Trump, despite the fact that a clear majority of it derive immense pleasure from hating the man and his remarks. The minority ruined it all, not by actually liking the man or his remarks, but by pointing out that the frisson of voting out of one's personal moral passions has nothing to do with what, under heaven, mere synods actually are and can realistically do. <br /><br />A synod has not failed if it fails to act beyond its competence. Nor has it succeeded at anything if it simply registers for historians of the future what a gathering of clergy, donors, etc on a certain fine day in May thought about Topic X. No synod took a position for or against the Fall of the Roman Empire...<br /><br />Bowman Walton<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com