The spiritual battle for the soul of Anglicanism

http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2009/07/the-spiritual-battle-for-the-soul-of-anglicanism.html

[Times Online] 7 July 2009--Greg Venables, primate of the Southern Cone, has just spelled out the issues at stake in the launch at Central Hall of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans. See our report on Monday and the latest today, Tuesday. 'In North America and here, true orthodoxy is being outlawed' warned Bishop Greg who has taken many congregations and even a diocese or two fleeing liberal episcopalianism under his conservative wing. 'We must remember we are not fighting flesh and blood. This is about principalities and powers.'

'Orthodoxy proclaims one truth at a time when that is unacceptable in western culture,' said Bishop Greg. 'Truth has become relative. 'To believe in one truth which excludes others is to be intolerant, bigoted and dangerous.' He also said there was a 'false view of institutional loyalty.' 'And sadly there is a great fear of being marginalised and blackballed.' Speaking of the different responses to what FoCA is preaching, he said, 'To the one we are the fragrance of death. To the other, the fragrance of life.' He predicted that the structures of the Anglican Communion will seek to accommodate incompatible and antithetical traditions, but 'if the system is given its head it will push the liberal agenda forward.'