HomeVoicesThe Episcopal Church’s Gay Rights Pilgrimage
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Andy
Unfortunately for the bishop, Unfortunately for the bishop, slavery and the ordination of women are poor biblical or theological analogies for homosexuality. Better ones are adultery, incest, and polygamy as those are clearly and pervasively identified as sexual sins. And yes, the Episcopal Church is infamous for its shifting moral and theological convictions, tethered as they are to a culture that drifts away from God. True, historic Anglicans shudder!
Andy
“Here is the theological “Here is the theological projection of a society built on preference- one in which the inclusion of preference within common life is the be-all and end-all of the social system. The Episcopal Church’s God has become the image of this society. Gone is the notion of divine judgment (save upon those who may wish to exclude someone), gone is the notion of radical conversion, gone is the notion of a way of life that requires dying to self and rising to newness of life in conformity with God’s will. In place of the complex God revealed in Christ Jesus, a God of both judgment and mercy, a God whose law is meant to govern human life, we now have a God who is love and inclusion without remainder. The projected God of the liberal tradition is, in the end, no more than an affirmer of preferences.”
-Philip Turner, former Dean of Yale’s Divinity School, on the Episcopal Church’s election of an openly homosexual bishop
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Andy
Unfortunately for the bishop,
Unfortunately for the bishop, slavery and the ordination of women are poor biblical or theological analogies for homosexuality. Better ones are adultery, incest, and polygamy as those are clearly and pervasively identified as sexual sins. And yes, the Episcopal Church is infamous for its shifting moral and theological convictions, tethered as they are to a culture that drifts away from God. True, historic Anglicans shudder!
Andy
“Here is the theological
“Here is the theological projection of a society built on preference- one in which the inclusion of preference within common life is the be-all and end-all of the social system. The Episcopal Church’s God has become the image of this society. Gone is the notion of divine judgment (save upon those who may wish to exclude someone), gone is the notion of radical conversion, gone is the notion of a way of life that requires dying to self and rising to newness of life in conformity with God’s will. In place of the complex God revealed in Christ Jesus, a God of both judgment and mercy, a God whose law is meant to govern human life, we now have a God who is love and inclusion without remainder. The projected God of the liberal tradition is, in the end, no more than an affirmer of preferences.”
-Philip Turner, former Dean of Yale’s Divinity School, on the Episcopal Church’s election of an openly homosexual bishop
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