{"id":24217,"date":"2016-07-20T23:01:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T03:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24217"},"modified":"2016-07-20T23:01:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T03:01:25","slug":"what-keeps-conservative-bishops-in-the-anglican-church-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-keeps-conservative-bishops-in-the-anglican-church-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"What keeps conservative bishops in the Anglican Church of Canada?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the vote that will lead to same-sex marriage in ACoC churches, seven Anglican Church of Canada bishops <a href=\"http:\/\/anglicanplanet.net\/canadian-news\/2016\/7\/15\/a-statement-from-some-bishops-of-the-anglican-church-of-cana.htmlhttp:\/anglicanplanet.net\/canadian-news\/2016\/7\/15\/a-statement-from-some-bishops-of-the-anglican-church-of-cana.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We believe that our General Synod has erred grievously and we publicly dissent from this decision.\u00a0 Resolution A051 R2 represents a change to the sacrament of marriage inconsistent with the Scriptures and Apostolic Tradition of the Church Catholic and the Book of Common Prayer.\u00a0 This would be a fundamental departure from the faith and teaching held by the majority of the Anglican Communion on the doctrine of marriage. Sadly, this complicates relationships within the Anglican Church of Canada and as a Province with the Anglican Communion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the same statement, they also declare their commitment to: <em>the Anglican Church of Canada, the Anglican Communion. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why don\u2019t they leave the ACoC and join ANiC?<\/p>\n<p>The generous answer might be that the bishops value unity, want to work for change from within and are taking a long view where the ACoC repents of its decision.<\/p>\n<p>The unity answer is unconvincing because the bishops claim to be committed to both the ACoC <em>and<\/em> the Anglican Communion. They can\u2019t be committed to unity with both since the majority of the Anglican Communion is not in unity with the ACoC: they are opposed to these recent actions. Like it or not, it\u2019s one or the other.<\/p>\n<p>Working for change from within is having no effect whatsoever and there are no signs that the ACoC will repent this side of the eschaton.<\/p>\n<p>I think the reason is much simpler and conforms to Jeremiah 17:9, a verse worth bearing in mind whenever probing a person\u2019s motives, including one\u2019s own: if the bishops attempt to move their dioceses to ANiC, they will lose all their buildings. They are not serious enough about their objections to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the vote that will lead to same-sex marriage in ACoC churches, seven Anglican Church of Canada bishops announced: We believe that our General Synod has erred grievously and we publicly dissent from this decision.\u00a0 Resolution A051 R2 represents a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-keeps-conservative-bishops-in-the-anglican-church-of-canada\/\">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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2370,1391],"class_list":["post-24217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-gs2016","tag-same-sex-marriege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24217","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=24217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}