Mike Daley is reporting over at LambethConference.net that the esteemed professor and theologian has been suspended. Stay tuned for more info as soon as we get it. We're thinking it may have something to do with the parish he belongs to voting this month to depart the Anglican Church of Canada for the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. His "suspension" may be the same thing as an Episcopal "inhibition." Has Michael Ingham, who instituted same sex blessings in the Church of Canada, actually done this?
Alice - I did not know any mortal was qualified to say who would lose his soul - personally, I am more of a mystic and do believe we see thru a window that is dark and smudged. I pray that you are wrong and truly cannot say with authority that someone has lost their soul. Enough said on this silly and uncaring, rude comment.
"Enough said on this silly and uncaring, rude comment."
Silly mystic liberal theology meets actual Orthodoxy and makes a silly rude comment about one of the direct lineage branches of Christianity that he doesn't understand?
Openness? Probably not as you define it. You declare a judgment on another's comment (which there is a certain amount of irony) citing your basis on your mystical experiences.
At another cafe ... the counter at Denny's, there was a regular that other of us 'fixtures' all knew, he was a dragon slayer and would regal you with tales of all his exploits, woe to you if you challenge his profession. Sometimes openness is best not explored.
So personal mystical understanding meeting centuries of time tested ... sorry, mysticism ungrounded can lead you into all sorts of trouble.
This is truly amazing, but sadly unsurprising. Rev. Dr. Packer is THE seminal orthodox (and thankfully, Anglican) Theologian and thinker of the postmodern era. Rather than threatening to throw Packer+ under the Bus, the entire Communiion should stop and consider the meaning and magnitude of his vote.
At this moment, Packer+ is the proverbial flagman on a dark night warning that the bridge is out. He's ignored at one's own peril. Selah...
Kevin- Mysticism is a wide term -it is not the same as magical thinking or a belief in dragons or Harry Potter - perhaps you should re-read Julian of Norwich
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Yes. He has lost his mind, and worse, he is losing his soul.
Whoa!?!?!?
Alice - I did not know any mortal was qualified to say who would lose his soul - personally, I am more of a mystic and do believe we see thru a window that is dark and smudged. I pray that you are wrong and truly cannot say with authority that someone has lost their soul. Enough said on this silly and uncaring, rude comment.
I believe it could be said that Alice was shocked.
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Ingham, having already found the bottom, is going for the eternal record and continuing to dig.
"The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops."
St. John Chrysostom
"Enough said on this silly and uncaring, rude comment."
Silly mystic liberal theology meets actual Orthodoxy and makes a silly rude comment about one of the direct lineage branches of Christianity that he doesn't understand?
If you couldn't guess by my second comment, my "whoa" was in reacting to the bishop's action not the comment one above.
Well Kevin I give thanks and praise that you put the question mark at the end of your sentence! It indicates a certain degree of "openness".
Openness? Probably not as you define it. You declare a judgment on another's comment (which there is a certain amount of irony) citing your basis on your mystical experiences.
At another cafe ... the counter at Denny's, there was a regular that other of us 'fixtures' all knew, he was a dragon slayer and would regal you with tales of all his exploits, woe to you if you challenge his profession. Sometimes openness is best not explored.
So personal mystical understanding meeting centuries of time tested ... sorry, mysticism ungrounded can lead you into all sorts of trouble.
This is truly amazing, but sadly unsurprising. Rev. Dr. Packer is THE seminal orthodox (and thankfully, Anglican) Theologian and thinker of the postmodern era. Rather than threatening to throw Packer+ under the Bus, the entire Communiion should stop and consider the meaning and magnitude of his vote.
At this moment, Packer+ is the proverbial flagman on a dark night warning that the bridge is out. He's ignored at one's own peril.
Selah...
Kevin- Mysticism is a wide term -it is not the same as magical thinking or a belief in dragons or Harry Potter - perhaps you should re-read Julian of Norwich
Yup, sure is, might even apply the term to myself, but you made your argument based on it.
Euripides said it best, "whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad."
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