Women Bishops: It's about the Bible, not progress - Tom Wright -UPDATED & Retort
Women Bishops: It's about the Bible, not fake ideas of progress
by Tom Wright
co-published, with permission, with The Times,
November 23, 2012
Exhorting the CoE to 'get with the programme' dilutes the argument for women bishops
"But that would be putting the clock back," gasps a feckless official in one of C. S. Lewis's stories. "Have you no idea of progress, of development?"
"I have seen them both in an egg," replies the young hero. "We call it Going bad in Narnia."
Lewis nails a lie at the heart of our culture. As long as we repeat it, we shall never understand our world, let alone the Church's calling. And until proponents of women bishops stop using it, the biblical arguments for women's ordination will never appear in full strength.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
by Tom Wright
co-published, with permission, with The Times,
November 23, 2012
Exhorting the CoE to 'get with the programme' dilutes the argument for women bishops"But that would be putting the clock back," gasps a feckless official in one of C. S. Lewis's stories. "Have you no idea of progress, of development?"
"I have seen them both in an egg," replies the young hero. "We call it Going bad in Narnia."
Lewis nails a lie at the heart of our culture. As long as we repeat it, we shall never understand our world, let alone the Church's calling. And until proponents of women bishops stop using it, the biblical arguments for women's ordination will never appear in full strength.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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