The Rev. Forrester is also primary author and a signatory of A Response from the Diocese of Northern Michigan\u2019s Standing Committee to the \u201cDar es Salaam Communiqu\u00c3\u00a9,\u201d\u009d in which there is the following:<\/p>\n
\u201cBaptism confirms this most basic truth which is at once, the Good News: all is of God, without condition and without restriction.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
This is incongruous with each of the Eucharistic Prayers and the Rite of Baptism, particularly the renunciations.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause each and every one of us is an only begotten child of God; because we, as the church, are invited by God to see all of creation as having life only insofar as it is in God; because everything, without exception, is the living presence, or incarnation, of God\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
Claiming \u201ceach and every one of us is an only begotten child of God\u201d\u009d and that \u201ceverything, without exception, is the living presence, or incarnation of God\u201d\u009d is a pantheism incompatible what we say (and pray) we believe about Jesus Christ as the Incarnation of God. It also contradicts the language we use in every rite of the Book of Common Prayer, not to mention the Catechism.<\/p>\n
I know these are serious charges. I do not make them lightly. I am not given to finding false teaching under every rock. And it is no small thing to reject a candidate put forward by a diocese to be its bishop. But I also believe, with Charles Gore, that ours is a tradition that is \u201cconspicuously orthodox on the great fundamentals of the Trinity and the Incarnation\u201d\u009d (Roman Catholic Claims, p. 173). If we believe the rule of our praying is the rule of our believing, then the prayers of our common worship must guide what we teach and preach. One whose stated beliefs are as at odds with that common worship as are the Rev. Forrester\u2019s can hardly \u201cguard the faith, unity, and discipline of the Church\u201d\u009d (BCP p. 517).<\/p>\n