Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

The next post argues that what Anglicans need is what the Roman Catholic Church already has. As I have argued with a reader in the comment section of the Heresy post, Anglicanism doesn't need to become more like Rome. We do need to become more like Eastern Orthodoxy. Our primates operate best in a collegial fashion like Orthodoxy. The development of the Instruments of Communion, or if you prefer, the Instruments of Unity, is a positive step for the Anglican Communion. The production of an Anglican Covenant is also a good sign.

As the next post insists, Anglicanism has hit a crossroads. We cannot continue down the the path of laissez faire. The Church has boundaries that were set by Jesus Christ and His Apostles. Those boundaries have been repeatedly violated by pecusa as has been acknowledged implicitly by the actions of the General Convention that just concluded (see the latest from the Anglican Communion Institute posted below).

No, we can't go on as we have in the Anglican Communion but neither do we need a Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. We do need the Archbishop of Canterbury and the primates to guide our Communion back into the channel of biblical orthodoxy. At this point it should be obvious to anyone paying attention that pecusa does not want to pursue this path. She should be cut free from the Anglican flotilla to drift further toward the shoals of heresy on her path of apostasy.

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