{"id":10181,"date":"2010-10-12T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10181"},"modified":"2010-10-12T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T21:54:00","slug":"anglican-clergyman-is-reluctant-to-define-anglicanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-clergyman-is-reluctant-to-define-anglicanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican clergyman is reluctant to define Anglicanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/nc\/news-items\/article\/guest-opinion-anglican-what-9393.html\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The prospect of something codified and named Anglicanism I find unsettling. Roman Catholicism provides an ecclesial authoritarian structure and demands subservient obedience from its adherents. Protestantism provides several forms of confessional authoritarianism, requiring subservience to refined interpretations of scripture and doctrine. Biblical Fundamentalism, of course, comes across as absolutely absolute in its biblical interpretations, that is, according to whomever the pastor or preacher may be. What is disturbing is the concept of subservience to humanly contrived authorities that seem to me to be the antithesis of the liberation and freedom that is the gospel (good news) of God\u2019s redemption through Jesus Christ who we know as Saviour and Lord.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes as no surprise, since once you codify \u2013 systematise or define \u2013 what Anglicanism is, you also define \u00a0what it isn\u2019t; and that would exclude many Western Anglicans: to be Anglican requires a person at least to be a Christian.<\/p>\n<p>Canon Gordon Baker seems to think that the Bible is a human contrivance and is disturbed by those who think it isn\u2019t. Although he claims to know Jesus as Saviour and Lord, I can\u2019t help wondering where his knowledge comes from since he doesn&#8217;t accept Biblical accounts as fundamental and absolute.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, his \u201cliberation\u201d is the familiar antinomian bad news of \u201cif it feels good, do it\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The prospect of something codified and named Anglicanism I find unsettling. Roman Catholicism provides an ecclesial authoritarian structure and demands subservient obedience from its adherents. Protestantism provides several forms of confessional authoritarianism, requiring subservience to refined interpretations of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-clergyman-is-reluctant-to-define-anglicanism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,2051],"class_list":["post-10181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-barmy-anglicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}