Perhaps this serves as a model of how the Episcopal Church now does theology. The friend’s priest was ignoring ordination, the rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer and the bishop’s direction. The person talking to me was also ignoring all that, but she had “reflected” upon the question at hand, and, mirabile dictu, she came to the very conclusion that she wanted to come to!
I suppose that when people find that Scripture and the Tradition place limits on what General Convention can do, the General Convention majority must think to themselves, “Well, if you don’t get it, you just don’t get it.”
In TEC, “reflecting” seems to be looking at a mirror where the reflection simply shows us ourselves and our desires.
I have more to say about the [url=http://deaconslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/reappraiser-method.html]The Reappraiser Method[/url] at [url=http://deaconslant.blogspot.com] The Deacon’s Slant[/url].
YBIC,
Phil Snyder
I want to do it therefor I can.