Women clergy and doctrine dividing the Orthodox from ACNA June 9, 2012
Posted by geoconger in Anglican Church of North America, Anglican Ink, Orthodox Church in America, Polish National Catholic Church, Women Priests.Tags: Metropolitan Jonah, Missouri Synod Lutheran Church, North American Lutheran Church
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Metropolitan Jonah of the OCA addressing the ACNA Assembly in Ridgecrest, NC on 8 June 2012
The Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in America, His Beatitude Jonah has called upon the Anglican Church of North America to ditch women clergy, Calvinism and the filioque in the name of Christian unity.
This is an “opportunity to return your church to its original catholic heritage” Jonah told delegates attending the ACNA’s 2nd Assembly at the Lifeway Conference Center in Ridgecrest, NC on 8 June 2012.
The ACNA can “overcome generations of schism, a schism forced upon the English church” by Rome if it eliminates the filioque from the Nicene Creed, the Orthodox leader said. The Filioque – the phrase “and from the Son” is a clause found in the Western Christian Church but not in the Eastern Churches.
Read it all in Anglican Ink.
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Interesting. Is His Beatitude suggesting that we become Orthodox as if being Anglican is somehow a lesser form of christianity? I
No. His Beatitude (in 2009), has called for steps to be taken, in order that full communion can take place between the OCA and ACNA. At no time has he stated that the ACNA must become part of the OCA or become another Orthodox jurisdiction.
Very interesting discussion about this at Stand Firm as well.
The “filioque”controversy is, in my opinion, of a similar nature, but less important to Christianity as was the original “iota’which separated the arians fron the athanasians in the fourth century A.D. both were beaten up into something Church-shattering, when, probably, Christian charity,and prayers for deeper understanding would have avoided all the fuss, in both instances