Friday, July 04, 2008

Archbishop 'deluded', says local bishop

http://www.theage.com.au/national/archbishop-deluded-says-local-bishop-20080704-31y8.html

[The Age] 4 Jul 2008--A Melbourne Anglican bishop has attacked Sydney Archbishop Peter Jensen for disturbing ordinary Anglicans and endangering young gay people with his "rhetoric" over homosexuality in the church.

Bishop Philip Huggins has written to The Age suggesting that Dr Jensen is "deluded" about the Jerusalem conference of 300 evangelical Anglican bishops that ended on Sunday with the launch of a conservative church within a church. In an opinion article in The Age yesterday, Dr Jensen said the new group was a necessary response to the chaos caused by revisionist teaching on homosexuality in the United States and Canada, and that the Jerusalem conference had brought order out of chaos and would renew the worldwide Anglican Church.

Bishop Huggins wrote: "Over the years, one learns to stay well clear of people who have been to intense conferences. At least for a week. It is easy to be deluded into thinking the world is defined by conference resolutions."

Dr Jensen had not communicated with any Australian bishops, "so we can't help him see the downside of his post-conference rhetoric".

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