Rowan Williams : Doctrinal diversity and christian communion

As Christians we proclaim a common Creed but are diverse in matters of doctrine; quite close in christian behaviour and life, but different in matters of church policy, organisation, management, the decision-making procedures, democracy, the ordination of woman, the relation to the State and to political society. Hence the questions : is it possible to overcome doctrinal diversity ? Is it still a real and existentional impediment or an obstacle for unity ? Or - on then contrary - is diversity rather a grace and a necessity and needed to respond to different cultural lives and particular customs ? What kind of conditions are at stake when it comes to being in communion ?

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Dialogical respect for one's interlocutor doesn't necessarily entail an endless openness to their arguments.
Many of the controversies before us today are not on the order of disputes about the nature of the Eucharist, but rather positing in frank, stark terms very hard questions, many of which do have obvious moral answers and do not permit a symmetry of interlocution.
For example, transitioning children is an unqualified evil, a monstrous maleficence, and while one might engage in dialogue to persuade the semi-insane back to sanity, one cannot confuse that with the sort of discourse that puzzles over the nature of the Eucharist.
The attack on racial hegemony is almost quaint these days, where massive institutional power at the level of the universities (and probably not a little in the churches) is dedicated to a new regime of racial stratification.
The good shepherd here made a roiling reference to the former president, and one should take such jabs in good stride, admittedly. But it's rather amazing that this late into a Biden administration that has muscularly focused its attentions on transitioning children (and prosecuting whistleblowers in hospitals who report on said), on racial and gender inculcation in the schools, on tethering even school lunch monies to said, on kangaroo courts and various other censorship and intel intrigue against the populace -- that somehow one must go ransacking back to Trump to find an example of moral narcissism in high office.
Try this one: Telling a 13-year old girl or boy, born in the image of God, that the way they solve the age-old problems of puberty (defined as discomfort in one's body) is to engage in a decade-long program of surgical mutilation and chemical castration of a Mengelian level -- that to sate their "true" nature in God's eyes.

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Let's say I will endeavour to enter Holy Churches, only - not desecrated Ones.

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The only cleric to have given Dawkins a run for his money. I disagree with him, but I respect him.

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Vercingétorix preceded Christ.

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In the meantime, I am looking for an Emperor of sort. Not Jésus and not a Mother Supervisor/ Supérieure. I don't need 'mothering', 'fathering....False Sisters. I Am A Hermit.

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Conclusion: your Ancestors were Voodoos? Fine. Be Good Voodoos. That's great. Above all, respect my Ancestors. They Aren't Voodoos. Fact.

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Good Bye!

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Equity is about Classical Antiquity: You either belong to it, or You don't. Do not invite Yourselves, Satan's flocks. Get Out!

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GO HAVE CHILDREN.

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You know what has happened to me? You have made me an Atheist. Unfortunately.....Not Good enough. God...is my witness, somewhere. Bitter taste ..

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Idolatrous Mother Superiors... I have caught you all, now. Jésus expected much more from You all, so does La Vierges Marie. Fact.

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LUGH! Frères/ Unknown Catégories: you are the Dumbest witnesses of all time. You have damned.

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Ahahahaha! They are finished, your Satan's/ Satan's, now. Fact.

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Merci Infiniment pour votre contribution. It has enlighten our Plight. UTOPIA. UTOPIE. No Foreskin Equals No Paradise.