Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Women Bishops questions that leap to mind

Well, I have at least the following questions about where we are in this whole process:

(1) Will the conscience of individual incumbents be respected? All the talk seems to be of PCCs asking for some kind of alternative provision.

(2) Will clergy be required to assent to the fact that women really are bishops? How does this provide a place for those who hold to an impossiblist position analogouge to someone who argues that homosexuals cannot marry?

(3) We are told that traditionalists should have an honoured place in the C of E. Have those who have said that male headship views are incompatible with a gospel theology repent of this view?

(4) Surely it is a matter of natural justice that there should be a conservative evangelical Diocisan Bishop?

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