From Gene Robinson:<\/p>\n
This column will also go far beyond Christianity. God is infinite, and it comes as no surprise to me that there have developed, over time, many credible and faithful approaches to understanding God. In the end, no religion holds a lock on the reality of God. Each religion grasps only a part of the infinite God and offers insight into God\u2019s reality, and we would do well to exercise a good measure of humility in claiming we know God\u2019s will. Better to begin each pronouncement we make about God with \u201cIn my experience\u201d\u00a6\u201d\u009d or \u201cFrom my perspective\u201d\u00a6\u201d\u009d or simply \u201cFor me\u201d\u00a6.\u201d\u009d At the end of the day, no matter how much we believe we know God\u2019s will, we must acknowledge that each of us is only doing the best she\/he can.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Peter Carrell then responds:<\/p>\n
Sounds like Spong. But it is not. More like ‘channelling Spong.’ The author is a bishop of an Anglican church. To that Anglican church the Diocese of South Carolina once belonged. Here is a useful illustration of why that Diocese has said Enough is enough. A bishop, intended within Anglican polity to be a teacher of the faith, belittles his own religion and its claim to have received the fullness of God’s revelation in Jesus Christ by declaring ‘Each religion grasps only a part of the infinite God.’ Further, as a bishop authorised by the church to proclaim the Word of God, the best he can do is boil down all proclamation of God’s truth to ‘In my experience.’<\/p>\n
This is not Christianity. Nor is it Anglicanism as a manner of being Christian which is both catholic and reformed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n