tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post3254595078307067618..comments2023-08-19T23:23:19.849+10:00Comments on Sentire cum Ecclesia: Reading Paul (properly)Schützhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-67700338012499052922008-04-12T15:05:00.000+10:002008-04-12T15:05:00.000+10:00Not sure whether to post this here or under the la...Not sure whether to post this here or under the later post on the new woman bishop in Oz.<BR/><BR/>I like Tom Wright too. Mostly I read his columns in The Guardian, and have saved many of them to a Tom Wright folder on one of my PCs.<BR/><BR/>But if you're Catholic, then when it comes to church stuff here's the deal: he isn't a bishop of anything, and the Eucharist he and any other Anglican priest administers is no more valid than the ones you did as a Lutheran pastor, and there is no such thing as a "restoration of Catholic/Anglican unity" because it never existed, the former unity was broken by the formation of something now called Anglican to institutionalise the heresy it needed for its own purposes, and will be restored when they drop the heresy and rejoin the church of Christ's institution from which they separated themselves yet insisted they didn't.<BR/><BR/>None of which is incompatible with addressing them as Bishop and Father as a mark of respect for their positions and the sincerity of their beliefs -- which, however sincere, are wrong.<BR/><BR/>It should then come as no surprise that the liberal and the conservative wings of such a church both contain positions that Catholics cannot share. The unity for which Christ prayed was not a unity that ignored false teaching and false teachers, about which he was quite clear. Unless of course one deifies "unity" and begins to produce documents and seek "dialogue" purporting to find that false and true teaching are actually the same teaching differently expressed.<BR/><BR/>Then again, that isn't a "real problem" re justification, scripture, ecclesiology or anything else once one no longer deifies an institution and begins to understand these things not on God's terms but in terms of participation in that institution.Past Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10541968132598367551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-36114517501285072462008-04-12T14:58:00.000+10:002008-04-12T14:58:00.000+10:00This comment has been removed by the author.Past Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10541968132598367551noreply@blogger.com