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[highlyeccentric]

Sydney Anglicans trying to outst Canterbury?

what I don't get is that Jensen has apparently offered episcopal oversight to conservatives in Canada (there's conservatives in Canada? who knew?). Doesn't that go against the very concept of diocesan organisation- which is older than the Anglicans and, for that matter, older than the Roman Catholic Church as we know it???

and secondly, assuming that as a conservative Anglican bishop you neither want to see the church slide into dangerous liberalism, nor splinter into morally divergent blocs, isn't it counter-intuitive to remove a conservative church from an already liberal diocese? Wouldn't you want to offer them partnership, training, brainwashing, and the like, in order that they might remain a strong conservative voice in their corrupted diocese? This article is tracing links between Jensen and conservatives all over the globe- in the cases of individual churches, rather than whole dioceses or even nations, isn't taking them under his wing doing exactly what he says won't happen- creating two parrallel Churches within the Anglican Communion?

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[lepsdavid.livejournal.com]

The problem for the conservative churches' are that they have a doctrinal point of view on who can be in leadership and who can lead the church (lest is fall into sin and doctrinal untruth). So if you take a conservative interpretation of 1 Tim 2:8-15 women should not be in leadership, particularly because of verse 14 "And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner." an argument arises from this that to have a female bishop is to risk sin, so a conservative church may fight against female ordination, but once it happens and a church is required to answer to female oversight... this is the concern that the conservatives have and WHY the proposal of alternate oversight came about.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

aaah... makes sense i guess. still, whynot choose a conservative bishop somewhere closer to home?

[lepsdavid.livejournal.com]

but who it the bishop answerable to? An archbishop! Plus the conservative churches in Canada are spead pretty thin and the USA anglican equivlent is where gay bishops were just elected. You need a "pure" area of established conservativness to start... at leas from the sydney viewpoint... it does make more sence for bishops closer to canada to oversee canada churches