TEC House of Bishops responses to the Primates Communique: Updates

The Statements and Resolutions released on 20th of March

A Message to God’s People…from the Bishops of the Episcopal Church.

From Bishop John Howe, Florida

From Bishop Kirk Smith, Arizona

From Bishop Henry Parsley, Alabama

Responses & Reports:

Ephraim Radner: Which Way ahead?

AAC Statement on the Episcopal House of Bishops’ March 2007 Meeting

Associate Press: Episcopal bishops reject ultimatum

USA Today: Episcopal bishops reject ultimatum

Virtue Online: Episcopal Church House of Bishops rejects Primates’ Ultimatum

    Comments & Responses

  1. Reading her sermon, I am reminded again of how little Presiding Bishop Schori understands about the nature of the disagreement. The conflict isn’t between Enlightenment and Post-Modernism.  It is between a biblical worldview and a non-biblical worldview, between Christianity and humanism wearing a clerical collar.

    Posted by  on  03/22  at  02:39 PM

  2. Alice - that is of course because she is not a Christian, and neither are any of her bishops.

    Once again the ACC gets it wrong when they say ECUSA has not decided on the moratoria. In particular their statement says they demand full and equal participation in all levels of ECUSA - there is no need to wait until Sept 30 and it seems clear the Primates will not wait.

    (The only thing they’ve got right recently is their statement after Dar Es Salaam saying that were ECUSA to repent, Robinson, Russell and all the gays and lesbians and their supporters must be removed)

    Posted by  on  03/22  at  05:20 PM

  3. Let’s remember that Caucasians see a ‘biblical worldview’ through (many might say distorted by) European worldviews and cultures. Remembering who are the majority of Christians today, it may help if many people start to learn about African, Asian and Latin American worldviews and cultures. This might result in:
    1. Grasp of more effective ‘biblical worldviews’ that can take on liberals/modernists within denominations more effectively.
    2. Repentance, restitution and change in lifestyle towards African and Asian people by Caucasians and a move towards God’s equality.
    3. More effectiveness by Christians in lots of areas of their lives, including evangelism.
    4. Change in public institutions worldwide through people dismantling systemic racism, etc.

    Posted by  on  03/22  at  06:07 PM

  4. Knowing about other cultures can act as a corrective to arrogant claims such as those made by TEC, but Christianity is about the transformation of the heart as well as the mind. Simply knowing something academically isn’t enough.

    If you want to read about the earliest cultural contexts of our Faith, I invite you to visit my blog: http://jandyongenesis.blogspot.com

    Posted by  on  03/23  at  02:02 AM

  5. Alice,
    1. As you no doubt know, European evangelical theology has been criticised as philosophical, unrelated to daily issues, intellectual, secularised, dualistic, conceptual, abstract, etc. by African, Asian and Latin American evangelicals (e.g. meeting of Third World Theologians, Seoul, Korea, 1982). Transformation of the mind rather than transformation of the heart while plausible in European thinking would seem to be a contradiction in terms among Africans and Asians since their worldviews and theology are integral (wholistic).
    2. A wider question is with the move in centre of gravity of Christianity to Global South, how do evangelicals in the West and Global South work together effectively. This was a major issue in the NT., e.g. Act 15 and Paul’s epistles. In UK where I am evangelicals have a wide spread (e.g. Fulcrum). How can we get evangelicals contextualised to a postmodern, secular Western society working together with evangelicals contextualised to Global South societies?
    3. Thanks for the invite to your blog...looks interesting… I’ll try to comment in a few days’ time.

    Posted by  on  03/23  at  04:33 PM
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