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The epistemic divide is clear. FCA members have objective criteria (both biblical and from within traditional church teaching, though the former is definitive) by which to critique both secular society and Christian praxis.Our own (or is he?) +Mark Lawrence attended the London conference and, according to Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans, he was invited by The Guildford Diocesan Evangelical Fellowship to give a talk in Surrey, before he headed home to Charleston, South Carolina. If you'd like, you can listen to +Mark's talk at Baby Blue Online.
In particular history in the sense of legitimating and identity-forming narratives is replaced by salvation history: judgement by objective biblical and theological criteria.
I wonder if +Mark will attend General Convention of TEC this year. GC09 left him feeling quite dyspeptic. Few would be greatly surprised if the bishop bolted from TEC.
Photo from Baby Blue.
When it comes to matters of doctrine, as far as I'm concerned, the proof of the pudding is in the eating and not the recipe; or as Someone Else once put it, "you shall know the tree by the fruit that it bears."
ReplyDeleteI thought we were all confessing Anglicans when we profess the creeds, but perhaps that's too simple for those who prefer to confuse matters of faith with religion.
ReplyDeleteCounterlight, that works for me.
ReplyDeleteKJ, Episcopalians also have the Baptismal Covenant.
I have lots of sins. If I confess all things done and left undone, will I then be a confessing Anglican?
Did my comment sound withering, because I meant it to sound withering.
ReplyDeleteYour comment sounded beyond withering, KJ. Bravo!
ReplyDelete"Something Else" might be (with apologies to Shakespeare) "...a tale told by idiots full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
ReplyDeleteI feel like giving them a glass of warm milk and sending them to their rooms.
Oh Bonnie, what a splendid idea.
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