{"id":3356,"date":"2007-01-15T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2007\/01\/katies-big-bus-ride\/"},"modified":"2014-12-23T18:31:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T23:31:49","slug":"katies-big-bus-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2007\/01\/katies-big-bus-ride.html","title":{"rendered":"Katie’s Big Bus Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Do you remember the apostate bishop on the bus ride from hell to heaven in C.S.Lewis\u2019 masterpiece The Great Divorce?<\/em> He wallows in a sentimental spirituality mixed with a pompous intellectual vagueness that values \u2018the spirit of inquiry\u2019 instead of following Truth.In reply to the friend who asks him to repent and come to the light the apostate bishop says, \u201cAh, we must all interpret those beautiful words in our own way! for me there is no such thing as a final answer. The free wind of inquiry must always continue to blow through the mind, must it not? \u2018Prove all things\u2019\u2026to travel hopefully is better than to arrive\u2026'\u201d\n

Episcopal Presiding Bishop Kate Schori visited Arkansas recently and was interviewed by Laura Lynn Brown of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Schori could have lifted her replies straight from Lewis\u2019 book\u2026<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Katies\u2019s take on whether Jesus really is the Way to the Father\u2026<\/p>\n

ADG: Could you elaborate a little bit on your take on \u201cJesus is the way, the truth and the life\u201d [a paraphrase of <\/span><\/em>John 14:16<\/span><\/em><\/a>]? <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

KJS: I certainly don\u2019t disagree with that statement that Jesus is the way and the truth and the life. But the way it\u2019s used is as a truth serum, or a touchstone: If you cannot repeat this statement, then you\u2019re not a faithful Christian or person of faith. I think Jesus as way \u2013 that\u2019s certainly what it means to be on a spiritual journey. It means to be in search of relationship with God. We understand Jesus as truth in the sense of being the wholeness of human expression. What does it mean to be wholly and fully and completely a human being? Jesus as life, again, an example of abundant life. We understand him as bringer of abundant life but also as exemplar. What does it mean to be both fully human and fully divine? Here we have the evidence in human form. So I\u2019m impatient with the narrow understanding, but certainly welcoming of the broader understanding. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

ADG: What about the rest of that statement \u2013<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

KJS: The small box? <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

ADG: Well, the rest of the verse, that no one comes to the Father except by the son. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

KJS: Again in its narrow construction, it tends to eliminate other possibilities. In its broader construction, yes, human beings come to relationship with God largely through their experience of holiness in other human beings. Through seeing God at work in other people\u2019s lives. In that sense, yes, I will affirm that statement. But not in the narrow sense, that people can only come to relationship with God through consciously believing in Jesus. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I love the \u2018narrow construction\u2019 and \u2018broader constuction\u2019 thing. It\u2019s a juicy bit of Anglican double talk, like \u2018Alternative Episcopal Oversight\u2019 or \u2018Two Integrities\u2019 or \u2018Elizabethan Settlement\u2019.<\/p>\n

You can also find Kate\u2019s views on Southerners (surprise surprise, we\u2019re ignorant racists) and men are more worried about sexual issues than women, and the life here and now is more important than the world to come (if there is such a thing as an afterlife).<\/p>\n

You can find excerpts from the interview<\/a> here on Standing Firm<\/em> and Bible Belt blogger<\/em> gives the full interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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With conservative Anglicans we read the PB\u2019s views and don\u2019t know whether to laugh or cry.<\/div>\n
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However, we have to ask conservative Anglicans the $64,000.00 question: why should your conservative reading of Scripture necessarily be the right one and Kate Schori\u2019s the wrong one?<\/div>\n
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Do you just stamp your foot and say, \u201cWell, I\u2019m just right, and she\u2019s just wrong. That\u2019s it.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Is there any other source of authority to decide? Where is the authority? In New York? In Canterbury? In Arlington? In Texas, Windsor? Nigeria? Quite rightly most Anglican bishops say, \u201cDon\u2019t look at me! I\u2019m not the final authority! That\u2019s not the way we do things in the Anglican Church!\u201d<\/div>\n
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Anglicans agree amongst themselves that they look not only to Scripture, but to tradition and to reason. But whose tradition, and whose reason? Both the conservatives and the liberals appeal to Scripture, tradition and reason. They just choose different interpretations of Scripture, select different strands of tradition and opt for different lines of reasoning.<\/div>\n
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Click here<\/a> to see how some other Anglicans have resolved the questions.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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