Sunday, November 11, 2012

Welby's Appointment and Women Priests


The Right Reverend Chandler Holder Jones has written a perceptive piece on the Justin Welby's appointment as the new Archbishop of Canterbury. He writes:

The Bishop of Durham, Justin Welby, has been appointed the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury. The Archbishop-designate strongly supports the purported ordination of women and is pressing for the admission of women to the episcopate in the Church of England, and yet has opposed until now purported homosexual marriage, a profoundly inconsistent position.

It appears that his theological outlook may be loosely defined as liberal evangelicalism or evangelical modernism, an emphasis on personal conversion and faith and contemporary popular-culture based worship styles over received consensus, historic liturgy and sacraments and Sacred Tradition.


Read it all here.

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