{"id":790,"date":"2007-07-05T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_michael_nazir_ali_speaks_out_about_canadian_synod_vote\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T14:58:00","slug":"bishop_michael_nazir_ali_speaks_out_about_canadian_synod_vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali speaks out about Canadian Synod decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>From this morning&#8217;s perusal of Anglican Mainstream, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican-mainstream.net\/?p=1856\" title=\"we find this\">we find this<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cMarriage is to do with the church\u2019s relationship to her redeemer. What could be more core doctrine than that?\u201d\u009d Nazir Ali<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At the fourth Chavasse Lecture at Wycliffe Hall on July 4, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali of Rochester responded to a question about the recent motion at the Canadian General Synod.<\/p>\n<p>Q. Can you comment on the motion that the Canadian General Synod has passed asserting that blessing of same-sex relationships is not a matter of core doctrine?<\/p>\n<p>A. First, the Book of Genesis affirms that humanity is made in God\u2019s image, male and female together, and is given a common mission which they fulfil in distinctive ways. As Karl Barth said, this makes marriage and the family the most visible sign of that image.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly this is clarified further in the teaching of Jesus. Mark 10 1-9 (\u201cThe two will become one flesh\u201d\u009d) is set as the gospel for the wedding service, and when I preached at wedding services in Pakistan many Muslim women used to come to enquire further about it as they had never heard about this way in which the relationship between men and women is ordered.<\/p>\n<p>Thirdly, Ephesians 5.32 (\u201cThis is a profound mystery, but I am talking about Christ and the church\u201d\u009d) is the only place where the word \u201d\u02dcsacrament\u2019 which is the translation of the Greek word \u201d\u02dcmysterion\u2019, is used in the New Testament. It affirms that marriage is a sacrament of Christ and the church. Fundamentally this is to do with the Church\u2019s relationship to her redeemer. What could be more core doctrine than that?<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this morning&#8217;s perusal of Anglican Mainstream, we find this. \u201cMarriage is to do with the church\u2019s relationship to her redeemer. What could be more core doctrine than that?\u201d\u009d Nazir Ali At the fourth Chavasse Lecture at Wycliffe Hall on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=790\">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":[36,71,388,74,633,389,635,173,514,79,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canadian-general-synod-2007","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-sacramental-theology","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}