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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Homophobia is a sin whose end time is now

http://www.episcopalcafe.com/daily/chicago_consultation/homophobia_is_a_sin_whose_end.php

[Episcopal Cafe] 13 Dec 2007--The Church is a school for Kingdom-heralds. The Church is charged with responsibility for Christian education that grows us up in the knowledge and love of God and sends us out for word-and-deed proclamation of God’s love for a broken and divided world.

The Church is human as well as Divine. At the deepest level, God organizes church and cosmos into Christ’s organic body-politic, whose members are interdependent and united under the direction of Christ their head. The real unity and eventual functional harmony of the Church are not in jeopardy, because they are guaranteed by God. By contrast, visible church institutions--the ways we organize ourselves--are human constructions that have no intrinsic authority. They gain credibility and earn our allegiance only insofar as they prove to be skillful means to Kingdom-ends.

What kingdom is Marilyn McCord Adams heralding? God's? Or the kingdom of the world?

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