{"id":772,"date":"2007-07-05T04:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_epting_democracy_and_the_church\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T04:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T04:38:00","slug":"bishop_epting_democracy_and_the_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Epting: Democracy and the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>As a brief fourth of July commemoration, Bishop Epting posted a short blog entry Democracy and the Church.  We do seem to be hearing this theme alot lately from TEC bishops and other leaders.<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As we prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July, Independence Day, it is interesting to reflect on our \u201cAmerican expression\u201d\u009d of Anglicanism. Much is made of the fact that some of the same framers of the U.S. Constitution had input into the framing of our polity as the Episcopal Church in this land. Hence, our own \u201cconstitutional\u201d\u009d form of government, the two Houses of our General Convention (with the House of Bishops often compared to the Senate; the House of Deputies to the House of Representatives), and a \u201cPresiding,\u201d\u009d rather than \u201cArch-\u201d\u009d Bishop as chief executive officer.<\/p>\n<p>All this certainly has historical roots and is interesting at least for that reason. However, I would want to argue for much more ancient and theologically significant reasons for our \u201cdemocratic polity.\u201d\u009d And that is that the \u201cmind of Christ is to be discerned within the Body of Christ\u201d\u009d and that means the whole people of God \u201d\u201d lay persons, bishops, priests and deacons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecubishop.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/03\/democracy-and-the-church\" title=\"Full entry is here.\">Full entry is here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a brief fourth of July commemoration, Bishop Epting posted a short blog entry Democracy and the Church. We do seem to be hearing this theme alot lately from TEC bishops and other leaders. As we prepare to celebrate the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=772\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,71,66,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}