Perry Robinson, a philosopher in the Orthodox Church, wrote an interesting article Why I am Not an Episcopalian. It’s a fairly sharp response to an Episcopalian struggling with the trinity.
I sure hope that God will not judge me on my theology. My faith is strong. My belief system probably needs a little tinkering. But I’ll still sing what the church says.
The general article, however, repeats the same tired analysis of why TEC is in such bad shape. Admittedly, he’s amusing: “TEC – “Don’t believe in that crap? Neither do we” with KJS is in one photo. But it is finally unenlightening (although true).
Yes, your average Episcopal priest isn’t a great expert in theology. I wish more were familiar with the broad panentheism in the Orthodox tradition, and the deeper expressions of recent Catholic theology. I wish priests were better able at explaining the relevance of the living God known through the Trinity. When an Episcopal priest denies the atonement, discards the sacrificial language of the Eucharist, or explicitly avoids the readings of Revelation, I’m disturbed. But Perry misreads the past and seems oblivious to our current context. Bad theology didn’t simply drop into the Episcopal Church and cause it to go to hell. Continue reading ““I just want to know what it means!””
The Divine Latitude 