Episcopal priest A.K.M. Adam has been pondering his next move given the near-inevitable split between the ECUSA and the Anglican Communion. What I wasn’t expecting was option #4:
I could look into the Anglican-Use/Rite Roman Catholic body. In that case, I’d be removing myself from the distinctly Anglican tradition altogether, which would make me feel queasy and upset my wife horribly (don’t worry, Margaret, I’m just talking through the alternatives), but would with a stroke resolve tons of problems about doctrine and polity. In that case, I’d be dissenting from a broad array of magisterial teachings disciplinary rubrics, but I’d be doing so in which the ground rules for obedience and dissent were at least quite clear.
The homosexuality dispute has led a number of Anglicans to contemplate “swimming the Tiber” (e.g. Rusty Reno), but Fr. Adam is the first person I’ve seen contemplating it from the liberal side of the issue. I guess my only point in raising this is that the infinite variations of Christians and their priorities still surprises me. I suppose it shouldn’t, but it still does.
“I guess my only point in raising this is that the infinite variations of Christians and
their priorities still surprises me. I suppose it shouldn’t, but it still does.”
Me, too, and I just joined the bunch.
And as Adam comments, “Good thing I didn’t get into this racket for the sheer fun of it,”
for what a passionate mess it all can be. I reckon I agree with him but I am not entirely
sure what I have got myself into. Though maybe that is ok.
Troy
p.s. By “bunch” I’d meant the “ECUSA”, but “Christians” also works in the sentence.
Comment by Troy — May 4, 2005 @ 1:36 pm
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