{"id":27891,"date":"2020-01-14T09:24:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27891"},"modified":"2020-01-14T10:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T15:09:15","slug":"to-be-or-to-self-define-that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/to-be-or-to-self-define-that-is-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"To be, or to self define, that is the question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27892\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-01-14_091242-1024x761.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-01-14_091242-1024x761.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-01-14_091242-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-01-14_091242-768x571.png 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-01-14_091242-404x300.png 404w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-01-14_091242.png 1196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>In the continuing assault on objective reality, just as gender is now determined by feelings rather than chromosomes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/nation-world\/choosing-your-own-definition-of-race-becoming-fluid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">race<\/a> is subject to self-declaration rather than ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>Such subjective relativism has even infected otherwise sensible evangelicals who <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanmainstream.org\/english-anglican-evangelicals-five-areas-of-disagreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appear to think<\/a> it is more significant for a bishop to <em>self-define<\/em> as an evangelical than just <em>be<\/em> one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At one end of the spectrum, some will point to the tremendous opportunities for evangelicals: the resources being released for church planting, the numbers of Bishops who <strong>self-define<\/strong> as evangelical, new initiatives such as \u2018Thy Kingdom Come\u2019, the historic advantages of the parish system and the theologically orthodox formularies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the fruition of Sartre\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-philosophy.com\/sartre-existence-precedes-essence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contention<\/a> that since &#8211; supposedly &#8211; God does not exist, our existence precedes our essence. In other words, we were not in the mind of God before we came to be, so we have no predetermined essential nature other than that which we create subjectively for ourselves. What an odd malady to infest the church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the continuing assault on objective reality, just as gender is now determined by feelings rather than chromosomes, race is subject to self-declaration rather than ancestry. Such subjective relativism has even infected otherwise sensible evangelicals who appear to think it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/to-be-or-to-self-define-that-is-the-question\/\">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":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[2629],"class_list":["post-27891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","tag-self-define"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27891","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=27891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}