tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post7749519022745777498..comments2024-01-12T04:58:49.069-05:00Comments on Kyrie, Eleison!: Massive Loss of Tradition in the Church of EnglandAnastasia Theodoridishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-36762822323665393402010-07-21T12:53:28.482-04:002010-07-21T12:53:28.482-04:00And thus the popularity of the study "Experie...And thus the popularity of the study "Experiencing God" in evangelical circles.Kaciehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06374573594800663980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-26105233953004374132010-06-29T13:41:46.138-04:002010-06-29T13:41:46.138-04:00"...it's like playing hide and seek with ..."...it's like playing hide and seek with a tot...."<br /><br />Nicely phrased, margaret!Anam Carahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960986859370967282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-53319669909995445842010-06-29T13:28:59.033-04:002010-06-29T13:28:59.033-04:00The Church of England I knew as a little Jewish gi...The Church of England I knew as a little Jewish girl with her nose pressed against the leaded glass (!) had a lot of Catholic tradition but she was Secondhand Rose. Some of it was leftover from the pre-Reformation Roman church but most of it was consciously revived or blatantly borrowed by the Tractarians and Ritualists. It was lovely and for a few decades from, say, the 1870s to the end of the War, there was much to admire and one could live in the ‘High’ Church and feel like a Catholic but the reality was too much like putting the genie back in the bottle and as time passed it got ridiculous and more like stuffing the dormouse in the teapot. You see that with the ‘catholic’ party in the C of E right now, they’ve seen the liberals run the whole gamut of theological and doctrinal insanity - David Jenkins, Gary Bennet driven to suicide, women priests, all the mad assertions about sexist language causing domestic abuse, gay marriage blessings using the whole wedding service, Don Cupitt, the general dissolution and disarray of all traditional belief and practice (both Catholic and Protestant) - and yet they have reduced their idea of what it means to be Catholic (in the larger sense, not the Roman one) down to not letting women bishops step inside their church buildings. It doesn’t matter that their male bishop is in communion with female bishops as long as they don’t have to see her. That is what passes for Catholicism in the C of E these days, it’s like playing hide and seek with a tot who hides under a blanket and thinks because she can’t see you, you can’t see her.margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07727534908302610374noreply@blogger.com