Saturday, January 31, 2009

Is The Renunciation of Orders Routine?

http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.com/?p=361

[The Anglican Communion Institute] 31 Jan 2009--Defenders of the Presiding Bishop are scrambling to re-interpret her extraordinary action of depriving a bishop of the Church of England of the gifts and authority conferred in his ordination and removing him from the ordained ministry of The Episcopal Church. For example, the group supporting the Presiding Bishop in Pittsburgh stated that “[t]his is a routine way of permitting Bishop Scriven to continue his ministry.” In the strange world of TEC, renunciation of orders has become a routine way of continuing one’s ministry.

Related articles:
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=69779
‘Really weird’, but Scriven bears no ill will on orders - Church Times
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2009/01/30/a-dangerous-move-by-the-americans/#more-6754
A dangerous move by the Americans - Anglican Mainstream

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