Upper South Carolina to Hold First Theological Council on Human Sexuality
Upper South Carolina to Hold First Theological Council on Human Sexuality
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
January 13, 2011
The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina has called a first ever Theological Council to dialogue on human sexuality. It is scheduled for April 8 and 9, 2011, at Christ Church, Greenville.
The Rt. Rev. W. Andrew Waldo has called for the special, non-legislative convention of the diocese to engage in what he calls "substantive biblical and theological dialogue on norms for how we are in relationship with one another and to practice these norms in a dialogue on human sexuality."
He says dialogue is the purpose. "We will issue no statements from this Council but only a reporting of the event and how it unfolded. We will have no voting. We will have no hidden agendas. The goal is to expand how we understand one another and how deeply we engage one another in Christ. We do know that General Convention will make decisions in 2012 and 2015 that will affect our common life, and I believe strongly that before then, we must make biblically informed, healthy dialogue a norm for all of us, so that we will be able to discuss those decisions with grace and integrity. We must know more fully who we are as a people."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
News Analysis
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
January 13, 2011
The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina has called a first ever Theological Council to dialogue on human sexuality. It is scheduled for April 8 and 9, 2011, at Christ Church, Greenville.The Rt. Rev. W. Andrew Waldo has called for the special, non-legislative convention of the diocese to engage in what he calls "substantive biblical and theological dialogue on norms for how we are in relationship with one another and to practice these norms in a dialogue on human sexuality."
He says dialogue is the purpose. "We will issue no statements from this Council but only a reporting of the event and how it unfolded. We will have no voting. We will have no hidden agendas. The goal is to expand how we understand one another and how deeply we engage one another in Christ. We do know that General Convention will make decisions in 2012 and 2015 that will affect our common life, and I believe strongly that before then, we must make biblically informed, healthy dialogue a norm for all of us, so that we will be able to discuss those decisions with grace and integrity. We must know more fully who we are as a people."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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