tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post4100693222424615392..comments2023-08-10T09:38:07.159+01:00Comments on Revising Reform: DRAFT BISHOPS AND PRIESTS (CONSECRATION AND ORDINATION OF WOMEN) MEASURE Explanatory Memorandum to the draft Measure as revised in committee ClauseRev R Marszalekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01831340057673771787noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-41381818050855993322010-05-30T08:18:07.399+01:002010-05-30T08:18:07.399+01:00Rachel, you write:
So Hooker's call is for obe...Rachel, you write:<br /><i>So Hooker's call is for obedience, except if there is 'any just or necessary cause' against it. However, necessary causes must not be those that can not be substantiated by everyone else's consciences being equally disturbed. He explains, 'Neither wish we that men should do anything which in their hearts they are persuaded they ought not to do, but,' and the “but” betrays, with what follows, that he will not look kindly on individual dissenters, when 'my whole endeavour is to resolve the conscience ... [to] follow the light of sound and sincere judgement, without either cloud of prejudice, or mist of passionate affection.' Passionate affections can lead people astray, is the implication, and dissenters are to be guided by the majority opinion on a matter of possible controversy. </i><br />This is key. In the 1992/3 vote w<br />e managed to come up with the concept of "2 integrities" so that those who held a fundamentally conservative conviction on this issue would be honoured and respected and not feel pushed out.<br /><br />Put another way, the legislation gave dissenters a way of remaining obedient, as we all wish to be, while preservigin our integrity on what we consider to be adiaphora.<br /><br />The difference now is that those statutory protections are being abolished, contrary to the explicit promises being made. Instead we are being given nothing like as much protection. Setting aside all questions as to whether this issue is "against God's word", I think Hooker would be rolling in his grave at what is being proposed.David Ouldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10622248017352143637noreply@blogger.com