Theological liberalism of Archbishop of Armagh’s tirade is totalitarian

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[Anglican Mainstream] 03 Aug 2007--As a middle-of-the-road English Anglican who carries no card of particular church ‘party’ allegiance I was disturbed by your report of the Archbishop of Armagh’s tirade (CEN, July 27).

It is not just his demonising of some with whom he obviously most vehemently disagrees but also the certainty of his own convictions about the Bible, the Spirit, and the nature of revelation and truth that ought to raise alarm bells. The kind of doctrinaire liberalism that belittles reverence for revelation and tradition and respect for orthodox and conservative scholarship is not only schismatic in character and effect; in the same way that the politics of New Labour is criticised for being increasingly totalitarian, so too the persecutory nature of much modern western theological liberalism increasingly constrains any genuine freedom either to think or to love one’s neighbour.