{"id":57233,"date":"2017-01-30T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bp_michael_nazir_ali-a_response_to_the_bishops_report_on_marriage_and_same\/"},"modified":"2017-01-30T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T16:00:29","slug":"bp_michael_nazir_ali-a_response_to_the_bishops_report_on_marriage_and_same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57233","title":{"rendered":"Bp Michael Nazir Ali&#8211;A Response to the Bishops&#39; Report on Marriage and Same Sex Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I welcome the BRGS Report\u2019s upholding of the doctrine set out in Canon B30. It is to be noted that this Canon is not just about marriage being between a man and a woman but also about its lifelong nature, the birth and the nurture of children and the \u201d\u02dchallowing and right direction of the natural instincts and affection\u2019. This cannot go hand in hand with wanting to make pastoral provision for public prayer for those in others kinds of relationships.<\/p>\n<p>I miss any treatment of a biblical anthropology in the document and, even more, of the detailed work both of biblical scholars and by the Church of England of the biblical material as set out, for example, in Some Issues with Human Sexuality (Church House Publishing, 2003). Although Scripture, tradition and reason are mentioned as a \u201d\u02dcclassic Anglican triad\u2019 the primacy of Scripture is not affirmed. Instead, the report, mistakenly, invokes \u201d\u02dcprovisionality\u2019 in theology, although Lambeth Conferences have done this only in relationship to ecclesiology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnazirali.com\/articles\/app\/archive\/01-2017\/title\/a-response-to-the-bishops-report-on-marriage-and-same-sex-relationships\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I welcome the BRGS Report\u2019s upholding of the doctrine set out in Canon B30. It is to be noted that this Canon is not just about marriage being between a man and a woman but also about its lifelong nature,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57233\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,576,74,175,389,635,199,168,114,183,98,184,177,151,129,108,514,112,79,188,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57233","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=57233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}