tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34346296.post4599135451642105149..comments2023-12-25T23:40:17.701-05:00Comments on Confessions of a Carioca: Some GAFCON BuckshotDaniel Martinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15980949721733826978noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34346296.post-26880464149476492092008-06-30T17:34:00.000-04:002008-06-30T17:34:00.000-04:00Seems to me the self-selecting Council of Primates...Seems to me the self-selecting Council of Primates (how to avoid "good cop, bad cop" references?) constitutes something of a line in the sand. If the Communion accepts it (a prospect I cannot envisio), the "conservative," evangelical, reasserting, communion-skeptic GAFCON leaders "win."<BR/><BR/>If the rest of the Communion says "no, you can't appoint yourselves as vigilante / posse," then I don't see how they have any means to stay.<BR/><BR/>That's the problem when you draw a line in the sand.<BR/><BR/>OCICBW.Malcolm+https://www.blogger.com/profile/08469936715413110334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34346296.post-19682940677405811662008-06-28T16:10:00.000-04:002008-06-28T16:10:00.000-04:00I am certainly far from the same page as Peter Jen...I am certainly far from the same page as Peter Jensen and the hard-core Reformed group, especially those who advocate lay presidency. Yet, fundamentally, I am much farther from those who put VGR into the bishop's seat. <BR/><BR/>Why do we concern ourselves with these secondary issues (it hurts for me to call sacramental issues secondary, but God is not restricted to the sacraments, as the scholastics said) when the primary issues such as the Lordship of Christ set a much wider gulf between orthodox and revisionist Anglicans?jason millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00777639640082565199noreply@blogger.com