Father Newman on the Anglican Crisis

Father Jay Scott Newman of Greenville, South Carolina, has published some exceedingly insightful comments regarding the current crisis in Anglicanism on the TitusOneNine blog. Father Newman's points reemphasise precisely the point many orthodox Anglo-Catholics have been making for years now, to wit, the purported ordination of women and the purported legitimacy of practising homosexual relationships both equally arise from the same identical source: a deliberate rejection of the clear authority of Holy Scripture and Apostolic Tradition as received dogamtically by the Church Catholic. Both errors stem from a gnostic heresy which denies the revealed doctrine of the order of creation and of the nature of man. The neo-evangelical movement in modern Anglicanism has yet to grapple honestly with the reality outlined below. Let us pray urgently and fervently for the return of all Anglicans who claim the title 'orthodox' to their rightful biblical and traditional theological and moral heritage as given to us by the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church

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- Father Newman says:

'"Both schools are asking themselves what the future of Anglicanism is going to look like. And the return to a biblically faithful, traditional Anglicanism isn't just about our Bishops coming to agreement. It involves the whole Church--including its organs of theological education."

This was the comment offered by the Reverend Martha Giltinan, Trinity's Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology. That an ordained woman and seminary professor can talk about the return to a biblically faithful, traditional Anglicanism without any irony is an index of how far gone the Anglican communion is from any form of Christianity which is biblically faithful and traditional. Friends, this is the camel's nose under the tent, and until and unless it is driven back out into the desert, every manner of tempest will sweep in through that gap. To put it most simply: if a woman can be a presbyter, there is no coherent argument left against two men marrying each other... There remains no hope (that I can see) of Anglicanism in the States being restored to biblical and traditional Christianity...'