{"id":20146,"date":"2010-06-04T15:54:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T15:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/joe_carter_responds_to_the_pbs_letter_is_the_holy_spirit_a_relativist_or_a_\/"},"modified":"2010-06-04T15:54:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T15:54:45","slug":"joe_carter_responds_to_the_pbs_letter_is_the_holy_spirit_a_relativist_or_a_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20146","title":{"rendered":"Joe Carter responds to the PB&#39;s Letter: Is the Holy Spirit a Relativist or a Colonialist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realize I may be expressing latent colonialist tendencies and committing spiritual violence by imposing a singular understanding of basic logic on Bishop [Jefferts] Schori, but it appears that she is forcing us to choose between two alternatives:<\/p>\n<p>#1. The Holy Spirit is telling some people that gays and lesbians can be ordained ministers while telling other people that such a move is contrary to God\u2019s will. Ergo, the Spirit is a relativist who imposes moral requirements based on cultural norms rather than on a fixed, knowable standard.<\/p>\n<p>#2. The Holy Spirit is consistent and has expressed his will on this issue to one group; the other group is mistaken in believing that the Spirit has spoken to them. The group that he has spoken to are therefore justified in attempting to apply this standard consistently throughout the communion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2010\/06\/03\/is-the-holy-spirit-a-relativist-or-a-colonialist\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize I may be expressing latent colonialist tendencies and committing spiritual violence by imposing a singular understanding of basic logic on Bishop [Jefferts] Schori, but it appears that she is forcing us to choose between two alternatives: #1. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20146\">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":[36,67,172,66,75,373,514,79,34,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-ecclesiology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-instruments-of-unity","category-presiding-bishop","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology","category-theology-holy-spirit-pneumatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146","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=20146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}