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Post by Josh on May 28, 2009 13:52:20 GMT -8
Matty,
You're an Anglican, right? I have a lot of respect for certain aspects of the Church of England.
In your experience what are the best, worst, most challenging, and most rewarding features of being a part of that Christian tradition?
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Post by matty on May 29, 2009 3:55:09 GMT -8
Well, yes i'm anglican. My mother is a vicar. However my sister is currently attending an evangelical church. She moved church because she was finding it hard to pursue her faith somewhere where she couldn't relate to any of the members of the church as they are on average about 60.
I also haven't been to church for a while but this is due to my family situation, i can only see my dad at a weekend and i prefer to spend that Saturday night to Sunday morning with him.#
I was probably virging towards not being commited enough in my christianity. I then found a religion forum called Barukh Yeshua Forum. And has instilled my christianity back in me.
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Post by Josh on May 29, 2009 12:51:19 GMT -8
Are you familiar with NT Wright, the Bishop of Durham? He's one of my favorite authors and one of the foremost "historical Jesus" scholars in the world. I'd recommend anything by him.
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Post by matty on May 30, 2009 4:05:50 GMT -8
Yes Bishop Tom of Durham he's sort of my mams boss, well Bishop Mark is then Bishop Tom. I personally think he spends too much time writing and given speeches.
NOTE- That is my own personal opinion and does not represent all people of my diocese.
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Post by Josh on May 30, 2009 14:52:58 GMT -8
As opposed to doing what? Pastoral work? Just curious.
By the way, what duties does a vicar, like your mother, have exactly?
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Post by matty on May 31, 2009 3:52:13 GMT -8
Well a vicar is sort of the Anglican equivelant of a pastor.
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Post by Josh on Jun 2, 2009 10:25:02 GMT -8
Well, I knew that much, but just wondering what they do on a regular basis.
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Post by Josh on Jun 30, 2009 9:25:45 GMT -8
Matty, BTW, did you say on another thread that your mom's a curate? I thought she was a vicar? What's the difference?
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Post by matty on Jul 15, 2009 12:37:07 GMT -8
Not much difference except a curate is a trainee vicar but heres my case for my mam being a vicar:
1. She's currently looking for a new parish.
2. She's covered a vacancy at the church.
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Post by krhagan19 on Aug 21, 2009 5:57:30 GMT -8
Ahh the Church of England, and the Anglican Communion as a whole. I now have great respect for it, now that it is truly a reformers Church. However, for most of the life of Henry VIII the Church made very few reforms other than to Sack the monestaries and other Roman Catholic institutions to fill the coffers of the treasury (and Thomas Cromwell who interestingly enough was a true reformer but was restrained from making the major changes he wished do the King Henry's strong Anglo-Catholic leanings. Basically Henry VIII was a catholic in all things but his desire and belief that the prince should be the ecclesiastical head of the church in his own dominion or (Empire). There is much circumstantial evidence that shows that this belief had a lot more to do with the kings desire to divorce Katherine of Aragon than any pious undertaking to reform the Church. However, subsequent to King Henry's riegn the Church of England became a very conservative reformers Church. So much so that there were backdoor discussions with various bishops in the Eastern Orthodox faith to bring the Church of England into communion with them. These fell apart though at the beginning of the 20th century as the Church of England banked a hard left.
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Post by Josh on Aug 21, 2009 7:41:24 GMT -8
Yes I have a lot of respect for the COE, but their origins are dubious as well as their persecution of other Christian sects.
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Post by krhagan19 on Aug 21, 2009 19:41:22 GMT -8
Indeed, but again this must be viewed in Context. All Christian sects that gained any amount of power tried to force their will on the other sects in their sphere of influence. The Lutheran and Calvinist mercenaries in Germany and Switzerland were known to actually rape women in front of their husbands as a form of total humiliation and to destroy their faith in the Catholic view of God. that is that you should pray to saints for intercession. In that context, Henry VIII was actually relatively gentle.
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