{"id":17782,"date":"2012-10-29T18:23:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T22:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17782"},"modified":"2012-10-29T18:23:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T22:23:52","slug":"creeping-hegelianism-in-the-anglican-communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/creeping-hegelianism-in-the-anglican-communion\/","title":{"rendered":"Creeping Hegelianism in the Anglican Communion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anglican Consultative Council<\/a> is meeting in New Zealand: it is rather like an Entmoot, except it moves more slowly and is more firmly rooted in fantasy.<\/p>\n

Considering Rowan Williams \u2013 when not waxing eloquent on sharia law and dressing as a Druid – has spent his entire tenure on attempting to find a middle ground between irreconcilable opposites, perhaps I should have made the headline \u201cGalloping Hegelianism….\u201d. No matter. Rowan is still at it<\/a> and is joined by General Secretary Canon Kenneth Kearon, who says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Speaking at the first plenary session of ACC15, the Canon Kenneth Kearon told delegates assembled in Auckland’s Holy Trinity Cathedral, that Anglicanism at its best “reaches out to those with whom we differ, recognising that together we will come to a deeper and far richer understanding of God than any of us could do on our own or if we only share the company of like-minded people.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This only works if the non-like-minded people, at a minimum, hold to the truth of the basics of Christianity. As it is, the liberals Kearon is suggesting might provide a \u201cfar richer understanding of God\u201d routinely deny the uniqueness of Christ, his divinity, his Virgin birth, his atoning sacrifice on the cross and his physical Resurrection: they believe in a different<\/em> God. There is no possibility whatsoever that listening to heretics expound on false gods will shed any illumination on the objectively real God that has been worshipped by Christians for the last 2000 years.<\/p>\n

Kearon would have us sit down with the least like-minded person we could find \u2013 Richard Dawkins, say \u2013 \u201creach out\u201d to him, have endless dialogue and triumphantly emerge with a synthesised faith of – agnosticism.<\/p>\n

I met Kearon in 2010 and suggested to him then that Anglican Communion meetings move so slowly that, by the time anything is done, there will be<\/em> no Anglican Communion \u2013 in the West, at least. He stared past my head with watery blue eyes and intoned in a mild Irish brogue: \u201cno, no, things move slowly but it will last longer than that\u201d.<\/p>\n

One thing is certain: when the lights finally go out at Lambeth, there will be a few dust encrusted clerical relics – eyes slowly closing, beards unkempt and stiff with congealed spittle – still having conversations<\/em> on \u201ccontinuing Indaba, ecumenical dialogues and inter faith issues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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