{"id":1582,"date":"2004-11-02T14:44:27","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T18:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/11\/02\/anglicans-can-be-an-odd-lot-and-we-"},"modified":"2004-11-02T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T18:44:27","slug":"anglicans-can-be-an-odd-lot-and-we-need-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/11\/02\/anglicans-can-be-an-odd-lot-and-we-need-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglicans can be an odd lot, and we need that"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AKMA puts in a few words on another recent Anglican controversy. 
\nI’ve often admired his theological thinking, because as a liberal,
\northodox Christian myself, it’s helpful to have intellectual comrades.<\/p>\n

…Anglicans have always<\/em> harbored oddball clergy. Anyone who’s
\nsurprised that a couple of crypto-Druids turned up among Anglican
\nclergy hasn’t been paying enough attention to history.<\/p>\n

I don’t
\ncondone their muddle-headed theology; it’s wrong, and there’s an end on
\nit. I hope that Bishop Bennison deals more rigorously with clergy who
\ndepart from Christian faith than he does those whose adherence to
\ntraditional theology renders them intractable relative to the direction
\nof the rest of the diocese. On the other hand, I don’t see this as a
\nshocking novelty; it’s a perennial manifestation of the genius of
\nAnglican ecclesiology, that we endure crackpots in the interest of
\navoiding inquisitions…. <\/p>\n

So far as I can tell, the strength of the Anglican Tradition lies
\nprecisely in its willingness not to permit its decisions to be shaped
\nby panic<\/em> over heterodoxy— in its confidence that the Truth
\nwill always prevail in the long run, and in the humble awareness that
\nchurches and councils err, not only in their living and manner of
\nCeremonies, but also in matters of Faith. In that confidence, and in
\nthe privilege of serving a church that observes its own limitations, I
\ncling to the truth handed down to me by the saints, I repudiate those
\nteachings and practices that contradict that truth, and pray that all
\npeople (Anglicans especially included) come to understand the truth in
\nits fullness — which full<\/em> understanding none of us can with integrity yet claim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AKMA puts in a few words on another recent Anglican controversy.  I’ve often admired his theological thinking, because as a liberal, orthodox Christian myself, it’s helpful to have intellectual comrades. …Anglicans have always harbored oddball clergy. Anyone who’s surprised that a couple of crypto-Druids turned up among Anglican clergy hasn’t been paying enough attention to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rayleejun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-pw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}