tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post8969324571405499295..comments2024-03-29T06:58:28.383+13:00Comments on Anglican Down Under: Leaving on the front-footPeter Carrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-83359254504602680972010-05-26T10:03:55.035+12:002010-05-26T10:03:55.035+12:00I think the learned +Tom is wright about the gradu...I think the learned +Tom is wright about the graduated scale of negotiability and that our current controversy about sexuality is really about where on the scale the issue lies. <br />However, the difficulties involved in such scales is shown once we consider his assertion that "We cannot be flexible on the prohibitions on murder, theft and adultery." We can all agree that these are wrong, until we discuss what constitutes each sin. Is killing as a soldier murder? Where does free-market exploitation of natural resources become theft? Does "adultery" refer only to transgression of a marriage vow, or to more general sexual impropriety as well? <br /><br />Once we move from the most general moral principles to their application in real life, their fuzziness increases ... but are we able to allow a corresponding degree of adiaphora to those applications? Only sometimes, it seems!Howard Pilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11822571103485207143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-82400747391796584942010-05-26T09:08:56.548+12:002010-05-26T09:08:56.548+12:00We cannot be flexible on the prohibitions on murde...We cannot be flexible on the prohibitions on murder, theft and adultery.<br /><br />Well... my church of England does remarry divorcees, in scriptural terms that is sanctioning adultery. What about murder that occurs in war time, or euthanasia, or abortion - are we completely inflexible on those issues? Not in my church anyhow? <br /><br /><br />I have to say that Tom Wright doesn't impress me that much.Suemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03128736092253293640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-12989491425302474832010-05-26T06:56:07.569+12:002010-05-26T06:56:07.569+12:00Hi Outis
In a part of the article not cited by me,...Hi Outis<br />In a part of the article not cited by me, he acknowledges both the hope of satisfactory outcome re women bishops/inclusion of different views; while also acknowledging the great difficulty if not impossibility this may involve.Peter Carrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-71900312868642013232010-05-26T06:46:42.362+12:002010-05-26T06:46:42.362+12:00"Just because Christians have agreed to diffe..."Just because Christians have agreed to differ on one matter – say, on the mode of Eucharistic presence, or on whether Christians can fight in the army – that doesn’t mean we can agree to differ on any other topic that happens to come up. Each case has to be argued on its merits." <br /><br />IOW, people who can't agree with the innovation of women bishops have no place in the (shrinking, disappearing) Church of England.<br />Is that what he's saying?<br />OutisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com