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July 29 2022 By dvirtue Timeline: Lambeth Conference and The Same-Sex Story

1992 Some American Episcopalians joined the Continuing Anglican Movement, splitting away from the Communion, originally in protest at women's ordination and then against same sex relationships

1994 The general convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Ecusa), amends the church's canons to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, allowing LGBTQ+ people to be ordained.

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July 28 2022 By dvirtue THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE -- A THEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL REFLECTION

When the convener strongly upholds and stands firm in the authority of Holy Scripture and the traditional Anglican formularies (the Thirty-nine Articles, two books of Homilies, and the 1662 Book of Common Prayer) he deserves our attention and full respect, but otherwise Canterbury has the authority of a donut vendor on Lambeth Avenue.

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July 23 2022 By dvirtue A REVIEW OF THE LAMBETH CALLS GUIDANCE AND STUDY DOCUMENT

Mission and Evangelism
Safe Church
Anglican Identity
Reconciliation
Human Dignity
The Environment and Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development
Christian Unity
Inter faith Relations
Discipleship
Science and Faith
In the Guidance and Study Document there is a section on each of these eleven Calls with each section having a common structure:

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July 21 2022 By dvirtue The ACNA is "Confessional"

It is also clear that the ACNA began otherwise. Bob Duncan's announcement that "Anglicanism is neither papal, nor confessional, it is rather apostolic and conciliar" ("Anglicanism Come of Age") is a way of saying "We believe the Bible, and we find our identity in partnership with those who don't follow Lambeth and intensely despise what the Episcopal Church stands for" - the AMiA, Forward in Faith, REC, etc. are in this together (Common Cause).

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July 19 2022 By dvirtue HART’S TURN TO HETERODOXY: A REVIEW

The Church’s “institutional form” through history, Hart insists, has been “often almost comically corrupt and divisive.” It would cause Hart “not a moment’s distress” to “walk away from . . . Christian beliefs and institutions” if he were to find them “false or incoherent,” and he is “more than willing to conclude” that “Christian tradition’s intrinsic unity . . .

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July 18 2022 By dvirtue JUST HOW INFALLIBLE IS THE POPE?

There was tremendous pressure especially by the Jesuits who controlled Rome at the time to agree to this teaching that had little precedence in church history, even though Catholics today are told that the idea goes back to the medieval church and even to antiquity. Arguments for "the primacy of Peter" were not initially directed to doctrinal truth, but rather as an attempt to strengthen the church's power. On this day in 1870 the council overwhelmingly adopted this statement:

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July 13 2022 By dvirtue EVANGELICAL ANGLICANISM: RECLAIMING OUR ALLIES Part 6

His reputation is as illustrious as that of Luther, Calvin, Bucer, Beza, and Bullinger. It is true, but somewhat simplistic to aver, that Martin Luther launched the outbreak of Reformation thought in Europe; that John Calvin brought coherence and organization to Reformed thought; and Peter Martyr very ably consolidated the Reformation through his massive confirmation of the truth of the Reformation's key and major doctrinal positions in his writings, lectures and sermons.

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July 10 2022 By dvirtue Jesus: Unrepentant Severe Sexual Sin Leads to Exclusion from God's Kingdom

(3) We would not expect Jesus to condemn the "same-sex attracted" merely for experiencing (but not acquiescing to) an involuntary impulse.

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July 02 2022 By dvirtue THOMAS CRANMER: A Personal Reflection

He was the most important theologian of the English Reformation, and arguably the most important in the five-hundred-year history of the Church of England if, for no other reason, he was responsible for all the recognized formularies of our Anglican heritage: the Articles of Religion, the Homilies (of which he wrote four of the original twelve in the first book), and the Book of Common Prayer (including the Ordinal). In so many ways it is fair to call this "Cranmer's Church."

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June 29 2022 By dvirtue JUSTIFICATION: ROME AND PROTESTANTS

Let's start with the Roman system. For Rome, according to the decree of the Council of Trent, justification is one doctrine among many, such as the Trinity and the authority of the Roman church. In Catholic theological view, "grace" as a substance to be imparted and infused into the human by God. It means an ontological change in the person. Grace merely adds to the work of God in creation.

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