Anglican agonies

The Washington Times ^ | 2008-07-23 | William Murchison

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History's humongous wheel turns and turns and turns again. Over time, mud and sludge accumulate on even the sprucest institutions. Take the 500-year-old Anglican family of churches, Christianity's third-largest, after Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy.

With Anglicanism's biggest family event under way - the every-10-years gathering of bishops and archbishops in England - what the world sees, accurately or not, is a family in moral and spiritual disarray.

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For all that, Anglicanism's public troubles proceed from the takeover of Western Anglicanism by theological activists whose purpose is the remolding of Christianity into something less like the old-time religion than like the platform on which Barack Obama will run for president.

Whereas orthodox Christianity insists on the salvational role of the second person of the trinity - more popularly called Jesus - activist orthodoxy calls for supporting climate change and advancing women's rights. And for establishing homosexuality as a sexual "preference" equivalent to heterosexuality.

It was the Episcopal Church's consecration of a gay man, V. Gene Robinson, as bishop of New Hampshire that, for many Anglicans, here and abroad, finally ignited the gasoline on the brush pile.

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A fourth-century father of the church, speaking of his own time, pronounced on ours: "We are making war upon one another," said Gregory of Nazianzus, "and almost upon those of the same household. Or if you will, we the members of the same body, are consuming and being consumed by one another."

Meanwhile, in Australia, addressing 350,000 Roman Catholic pilgrims, not to mention millions watching on television, Pope Benedict XVI drew attention to the "spiritual desert" spreading through the world - "an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair," being the product of de-spiritualization.

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My comments on the article in the Washington Times comment blog:

By: AnalogReigns

Mr. Murchison doesn’t quote Gregory of Nazianzus in the correct context: “We are making war upon one another, and almost upon those of the same household. Or if you will, we the members of the same body, are consuming and being consumed by one another.”

The revisionists in the Anglican Communion are not, and have never been, an actual part of Christ’ Church—since they also deny that Jesus Christ is Lord, and, cannot say the ancient creeds with honesty. This is real Christians verses non-Christian usurpers.

Wolves in sheeps’ clothing do not make a conflict Christian v. Christian, only the old conflict of the Devil verses the Bride of Christ.

[Huber]

Agreed. Unfortunately, the writer cannot add either, counting the AC as 500 years old.

[Cronos]

well, yes, approximately 500 years since HEnry 8 separated his people from The Church