The Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd Alan Harper, spoke to the USPG conference last week on Holy Scripture and the Law of God in Contemporary Anglicanism in the Light of Richard Hooker’s “Lawes”. His address is online here and here.
Ruth Gledhill in the Times Archbishop of Armagh invokes scripture in defence of homosexuality
BBC We may allow gay unions: COI head
David Young and Alf McCreary in the Belfast Telegraph Church of Ireland may accept gay marriages
Belfast News Letter C of I may accept gay marriage – Harper
Posted by Peter Owen on Monday, 7 July 2008 at 10:31am BST | TrackBackWell, Armagh is yet again letting the cat our of the realignment bag, so far as hermeneutics and methods are concerned.
From any number of best practice angles - empirical evidence to the contrary of traditional negative views, Hooker's careful and wide-ranging appreciation of reason in hermeneutics, past historical examples of who/how/when/why believers changed their views (evolution, flat earth, cosmos, anatomy, usury, contraception, divorce and remarriage, anesthesia during childbirth, suicide, substance abuse, the roles and competencies of women and girls, war and peace, the strict primacy of Rome, ... the list of change items does go on a good bit?), and common sense daily life relationships across our differences which clearly demonstrate that peace across our hot buttons is way better than warfare and weaponized doctrines in both society and in church life.
And, still? Realignment has arrived in Anglican lands to save us from all that. We are meant to be the strong church of the closed, against all odds - and apparently against all evidence. Imagine that, Anglicans who stonewall against hearing the slowly but surely building evidence. Who woulda thought it?
Posted by: drdanfee on Monday, 7 July 2008 at 2:49pm BSTSome of the Archbishop of Armagh's clergy have called him a false teacher.
See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2008/07/my_archbishop_is_a_false_teach.html
Posted by: Anon on Monday, 7 July 2008 at 3:05pm BST"Some of the Archbishop of Armagh's clergy have called him a false teacher."
You don't say???? AM I s h o c k e d! Do I care?
Not really... Try some more!
Posted by: Göran Koch-Swahne on Monday, 7 July 2008 at 5:53pm BSTAnon: is unpleasant religious conservatism in Ireland news any more? The C of I has been doing rather well in Ireland in recent years precisely because it is the sane liberal alternative to the other two hard-line mainstream churches on the island.
Posted by: Fr Mark on Monday, 7 July 2008 at 6:42pm BST"Some of the Archbishop of Armagh's clergy have called him a false teacher."
And how do they feel about the heretical document signed recently at GAFCON? Until I know that, I have no idea as to their ability to tell a true teacher from a false one.
Posted by: Ford Elms on Monday, 7 July 2008 at 7:43pm BSTThe C of I, who would have thought it?, is more and more looking like one of the sanest Christian Churches. Its stock has soared in Ireland.
Posted by: Spirit of Vatican II on Tuesday, 8 July 2008 at 5:58am BST