Comments on: Vee Have Vays of Making you Choose http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/05/07/vee-have-vays-of-making-you-choose/ Some place between 40 and Death Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:11:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Brian http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/05/07/vee-have-vays-of-making-you-choose/#comment-2924 Brian Sat, 10 May 2008 00:58:31 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2618#comment-2924 Eamon Duffy's book which you have in your future reading makes a very cogent argument as to why the Reformation was a pretty bad idea. Eamon Duffy’s book which you have in your future reading makes a very cogent argument as to why the Reformation was a pretty bad idea.

]]> By: Brian http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/05/07/vee-have-vays-of-making-you-choose/#comment-2919 Brian Fri, 09 May 2008 13:54:59 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2618#comment-2919 Indeed :) Indeed :)

]]> By: Huw http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/05/07/vee-have-vays-of-making-you-choose/#comment-2917 Huw Fri, 09 May 2008 03:04:35 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2618#comment-2917 I figured you did. 'sokay. As I keep saying of Women Clergy: If it is of the Holy Spirit it will last. In the mean time, God will sort it all out. I figured you did. ’sokay. As I keep saying of Women Clergy: If it is of the Holy Spirit it will last. In the mean time, God will sort it all out.

]]> By: Brian http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/05/07/vee-have-vays-of-making-you-choose/#comment-2916 Brian Fri, 09 May 2008 02:59:45 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2618#comment-2916 Sorry but I tend to agree with Dr Johnson's sentiments about all things Reformation. Woeful mistake. Sorry but I tend to agree with Dr Johnson’s sentiments about all things Reformation. Woeful mistake.

]]> By: Huw http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/05/07/vee-have-vays-of-making-you-choose/#comment-2900 Huw Thu, 08 May 2008 11:46:25 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2618#comment-2900 Brian - you hit the nail on the head. I still think the reformation was a good thing: I question if the increasingly enforced conformity and hierarchical lockstep (in the East and the West) of the 1000 years from Nicea to Wittenberg was a good thing. And I wonder if the "great schism" and the Reformation were not the hammer of the Holy Spirit shattering a near-satanic ossification of God's people. Not that much bad hasn't come of the Reformation as well: we are humans and we will mess anything up. If we could only learn to recognise each other as Christians, "corporate unity" would be revealed as unimportant. Rome could lead the way by saying "Oh, hell, ok, you're a church too." Lee: I LOVED the detestable enormities line. A very Orthodox complaint against the Roman Vicar. Brian - you hit the nail on the head. I still think the reformation was a good thing: I question if the increasingly enforced conformity and hierarchical lockstep (in the East and the West) of the 1000 years from Nicea to Wittenberg was a good thing. And I wonder if the “great schism” and the Reformation were not the hammer of the Holy Spirit shattering a near-satanic ossification of God’s people.

Not that much bad hasn’t come of the Reformation as well: we are humans and we will mess anything up.

If we could only learn to recognise each other as Christians, “corporate unity” would be revealed as unimportant. Rome could lead the way by saying “Oh, hell, ok, you’re a church too.”

Lee: I LOVED the detestable enormities line. A very Orthodox complaint against the Roman Vicar.

]]> By: Lee Penn http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/05/07/vee-have-vays-of-making-you-choose/#comment-2883 Lee Penn Thu, 08 May 2008 07:17:51 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2618#comment-2883 Never forget the short-lived part of the Great Litany ... the petition that the Lord deliver the congregants from "the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all of his detestable enormities." I think it stayed in the BCP only from 1549 to 1558. Lee Never forget the short-lived part of the Great Litany … the petition that the Lord deliver the congregants from “the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all of his detestable enormities.” I think it stayed in the BCP only from 1549 to 1558.

Lee

]]> By: Brian http://raphael.doxos.com/2008/05/07/vee-have-vays-of-making-you-choose/#comment-2871 Brian Thu, 08 May 2008 04:12:24 +0000 http://raphael.doxos.com/?p=2618#comment-2871 "Freedom from his despotism" Echoes of the "Deformation" as Dr Johnson called it :) “Freedom from his despotism” Echoes of the “Deformation” as Dr Johnson called it :)

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