tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post6819193822621765945..comments2024-02-15T03:32:25.686-05:00Comments on Preludium, Anglican and Episcopal futures: The matter of an Anglican Magisterium...Mark Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06871096746243771489noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-86286882914846748052010-09-08T23:24:15.604-04:002010-09-08T23:24:15.604-04:00A teaching magisterium is a profoundly bad idea.
...A teaching magisterium is a profoundly bad idea.<br /><br />It inevitably falls - as the episcopacy has frequently done - to the lowest common denominator, and those are not the people who should be speaking for any part of the Body of Christ.<br /><br />Frankly, I still hold out hope for the death of this alleged communion, and may it be buried with a compass rose through its heart. It's become nothing - absolutely nothing - but a profound waste of good peoples' time, appealing to a queasy sentimentalism of "but we're all family" or a flawed notion that church has done a better job than secular charity organizations.MarkBrunsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16971990948866488080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-62836998495264205812010-09-08T14:52:25.723-04:002010-09-08T14:52:25.723-04:00Hi Mark,
I sense that we would both like to be in ...Hi Mark,<br />I sense that we would both like to be in the same place, an Anglican Communion which holds together rather than fragments, but see different routes to that place. I wonder if a very slight advantage to my route is that I think I can argue that Anglicans have not really and truly tried it yet (i.e. it might succeed despite naysayers) whereas your route (I would argue) has been tried and, well, look where it has taken us!Peter Carrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.com