Methodists – An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy

Sam Norton on the Future of the Church of England

By Peter Ould Posted on October 19, 2011 Posted in Church of England, Mission 3 Comments Tagged with Abolition, Assumption, Auspices, Body Of Christ, Christian Charity, Christians, Church House, Church of England, Disagreements, Inheritance, Institutional Arrangements, Mersea, Methodists, Norton, Ordained Ministry, Parish Boundaries, Powerful Stuff, Proposals, Simplification, Witness

Controversial, but powerful stuff. The general problem remains, however. The nature of the ministry than a priest is called to, in the way that Rowan articulates, is – to generalise hugely – a ministry that will become rarer and rarer …

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Clarifying the Nicene Point

By Peter Ould Posted on August 5, 2008 Posted in Anglican Communion 4 Comments Tagged with 1 Corinthians 15, Alan Jacobs, Anglican Church, Arian, Baptists, Critique, Donatist, Easter Sunday, Episcopal Church, Generous Man, Independent Church, Mdash, Methodists, Presbyterians, Pulpit, Qualms, Resurrection, Sermon, Validity

Alan Jacobs has written a helpful critique of one of the points I made below. I have a number of qualms about the validity of Ould’s reading of the Councils’ “principle of diocesan integrity.” First of all, his reading would …

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Sam Norton on the Future of the Church of England

Clarifying the Nicene Point