Apparently, it’s fundamentalism.
From here:
“One of the features of fundamentalism is that you begin to believe that your apprehension of God is the right one and complete one, and consequently, all others are wrong. There are far too many unreflective fundamentalisms around in our communion today – conservative fundamentalism, liberal fundamentalism, catholic fundamentalism – all characterized by a certainly in their rightness, coupled with an intolerance of the faith perspective of others with whom they differ.”
That would make John the Baptist, St. Paul, St. Peter and the rest of the apostles all fundamentalists.
Even worse, since he claimed that his “apprehension of God” was not only “the right one” but that those who apprehended him apprehended God, it would make Jesus the definitive fundamentalist: a veritable paradigm of fundamentalism.
Jesus would have made a dreadfully intolerant Anglican – according to the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion.
Honest question: would Christ proclaim the truth of the Anglican faith and the error of all others? Would Christ say: “I’m an Anglican?”
I doubt it. I expect he would not identify as a follower of any variant of Christianity since He alone is the Christ. Assuming that what Scripture says about homosexuality and women speaking in church I expect He would distance himself from what is going on now with gay women bishops and such.
We have strayed from the path shown us. If you cannot follow Christ you should at least not try to reinvent Him.
Right, I suppose I meant more something like: would he recognise the Anglican faith as the variant that is “the right one”? Would Christ say: “The Anglican Church is the one of which I am the head”? Or to head off the slant of this blog at the pass, “The Anglican faith as practiced by the members of ANiC is the one of which I am the head”?
From that quotation, Canon Kearon qualifies as a fundamentalist himself. Unless, that is, he condemns those TEC bishops who are sueing congregations. You can’t get much more intolerant than that!
But I doubt the good canon is intelligent enough to realise that he is condemning himself, or that he cares.
Jesus could not be an intolerant Anglican.
Jesus could not even be a Christian.
For He does not fall short of the glory of God,—
as we all do.