{"id":17923,"date":"2010-02-15T02:59:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T02:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rosemary_hartill_on_general_synod-the_adversarial_model_doesnt_help\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T02:59:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T02:59:59","slug":"rosemary_hartill_on_general_synod-the_adversarial_model_doesnt_help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17923","title":{"rendered":"Rosemary Hartill on General Synod&#8211;The adversarial model doesn&#39;t help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally, there have been three main models:<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a2 Power in the hands of the bishops in councils (as in the Eastern Orthodox models: the Catholic model displays an unusual dominance over councils of one bishop, the pope)<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a2 Oversight and authority in the hands of elders<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a2 Congregational: with the leadership in the democratic voting hands of the church members<\/p>\n<p>Typically the Anglican model has a touch of each. The General Synod is divided into three houses \u201d\u201c bishops, clergy and laity.<\/p>\n<p>As a former BBC religious affairs correspondent, I reported on some fine debates, as well as some woeful ones. But all too often the adversarial nature of procedures were all too like Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/belief\/2010\/feb\/12\/general-synod-adversarial\">Read the whole piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally, there have been three main models: \u201d\u00a2 Power in the hands of the bishops in councils (as in the Eastern Orthodox models: the Catholic model displays an unusual dominance over councils of one bishop, the pope) \u201d\u00a2 Oversight and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17923\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,40,74,389,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}