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    The Windsor (Eames) Report in pdf

    Ahab, You bring up scriptural arguments about homosexuality which I hasten not to argue because this thread is not about that, and because the mods have made it clear that such a discussion is not to take place on this part of the board. You make good points about the way worship has become...
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    The Windsor (Eames) Report in pdf

    No, you're right, the report doesn't really beef up the ABC much beyond his current position. I was just using him as an example, thinking of him more in his role as primate of the Church of England than as pastor of the communion. Yes, they don't make them the driving force. But they do...
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    The Windsor (Eames) Report in pdf

    It's not simply an organizational concern that I have. Bishops have historically been viewed in our tradition as being collegial. To give one bishop or one group of bishops much greater authority over others is to undermine that understanding of episcopacy. The report goes to great lengths to...
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    Should the ECUSA apologise

    I think that an apology for causing hurt and for leaving so much of the international bodies out of what is clearly a very sensitive decision making process is appropriate. This can be done without apologizing for the act itself. I think that an apology from those bishops who have extended...
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    What is the history of “Sola Scriptura?”

    Why not split the difference and go Anglo-Catholic? ;) j/k...sortof... Karl's point is well taken with respect to what I said before. The bible is not a how to manual in the sense that you can't just open it up and have it tell you how to live your life. It doesn't say "1) Brush your...
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    The Windsor (Eames) Report in pdf

    I think that the best reaction any of us can have to this report is to sit with it and pray about it and discuss it without anyone threatening to bolt. While I respect everyone's desire to hold firm to moral principles, which is a desire I share, cutting and running at this point would be...
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    What is the history of “Sola Scriptura?”

    What do you mean "to what canon was it applied?" As far as I know, Anglicanism has never been a sola scriptura tradition. We've always held scripture in a high place, believing that it contains all things necessary for salvation. Richard Hooker enshrined the early Anglican theology in...
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    A question about the episcopacy.

    hmm... the priestly office verse seems a little thin on details.
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    What do Anglicans believe about this...

    There was an article in Christian Century a few months back that dealt with the bit of scripture that you're quoting. I wish I could find it so that I could copy some of it for you. The gist of it was that some scholars believe that Paul's ridiculous seeming pre-occupation with hair and hair...
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    Divorce

    Jesus is pretty clearly against divorce of any kind. Luke attests to that. The exit clause about "except in cases of adultery" that we find in Matthew's version of the story is likely an addition. I still struggle with that personally because I do think there are times that marriage does not...
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    What do Anglicans believe about this...

    [/list]Evolve in what sense? I think it would be pretty illogical to suggest that we haven't changed a bit over the course of human history. I also find it hard to swallow that our God who loves us would command mass slaughter. Yet there it is in the bible. Does that mean that God made such...
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    Church problems, aging congregations, the lot...

    I've been following this thread with great interest. As a twenty-four year old, I am the target audience that the church is forgetting. It's hard for me to know how I ended up in an Episcopal Church. It was almost an accident. Now I'm a seminarian and I'm interning at a parish that has all...
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    Overlapping Bishops

    Well, I suppose that's one way of looking at it. Another would be that the traditional understanding of bishops as having pastoral jurisdiction over a particular area is not respected at all by either the African and Asian bishops who do that or the American churches who are using them. Both...
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    Overlapping Bishops

    I'm not sure I follow what you're saying.
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    Australian Bishops Synod

    As long as we're talking a bit about the Australian Church, can someone explain to me what's going on in the Diocese of Sydney that has the Communion in a frenzy? One person told me that it was irregular ordination, priests laying hands on instead of bishops. This concerns me greatly. But...
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