A short response to Jeff Murph

Murph's essay is posted below. This is my comment at 3RiversEpiscopal:

The appeal to instruments of unity (or communion)is weakened by the fact that the instruments have been ignored by pecusa, as well as have made statements regarding actions and not followed through on those actions.

We also have one instrument of unity (the Archbishop of Canterbury) contradicting another instrument (the primates) on a firm deadline. When the instruments don't follow through and aren't in agreement themselves, they hardly stand as instruments of unity or communion.

We have also seen the decision-making ability of another of the instruments (namely, Lambeth) stripped by the ABC in conjunction with pecusa and others by design. It should be obvious to the author that the instruments really have no power to do what the author claims they should be allowed to do.
September 16, 2008 3:32 PM