Healing the "Body of God"?
Healing the "Body of God"?
Speaking about the future of ecumenism and dangers in the Sudan, the leader of the Episcopal Church takes a bizarre detour into pantheism
By Jeff Walton
http://www.theird.org/
December 9, 2010
Usually preoccupied with the promotion of alternative sexualities and liberal theology, the U.S.-based Episcopal Church does have a positive track record in one area: Sudan. Long before most American Christians had even heard of Darfur, the Episcopal Church was involved in nearby war-torn Southern Sudan, where an Islamist government in the North persecutes the predominantly Christian population in the South.
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori commendably spoke about an upcoming independence referendum there during the recent General Assembly of the National Council of Churches (NCC) and Church World Service (CWS) held in New Orleans. Credibly, Jefferts Schori warns the gathered ecumenical leaders about an impending Rwanda-like escalation of the already unfolding conflict. However, the leader of 2.1 million U.S. Episcopalians missed the mark in her attempts simultaneously to promote a seeming Universalist theology with a decidedly pantheist-sounding message.
Saying that "the image born of chaos science that a butterfly's wing beats in China my affect the course of a storm in the Gulf of Mexico is daily reality," Jefferts Schori argued for a global interconnectedness that entails instantaneous communications, the spread of pandemics, oil spills and glacial melting.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Speaking about the future of ecumenism and dangers in the Sudan, the leader of the Episcopal Church takes a bizarre detour into pantheism
By Jeff Walton
http://www.theird.org/
December 9, 2010
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori commendably spoke about an upcoming independence referendum there during the recent General Assembly of the National Council of Churches (NCC) and Church World Service (CWS) held in New Orleans. Credibly, Jefferts Schori warns the gathered ecumenical leaders about an impending Rwanda-like escalation of the already unfolding conflict. However, the leader of 2.1 million U.S. Episcopalians missed the mark in her attempts simultaneously to promote a seeming Universalist theology with a decidedly pantheist-sounding message.
Saying that "the image born of chaos science that a butterfly's wing beats in China my affect the course of a storm in the Gulf of Mexico is daily reality," Jefferts Schori argued for a global interconnectedness that entails instantaneous communications, the spread of pandemics, oil spills and glacial melting.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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