tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post7584171714529482114..comments2024-03-22T11:37:52.668-05:00Comments on Byzantine, Texas: Take a deep breath, Anglicans.Byzantine, TXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-91751325367360450342012-12-03T22:06:32.362-06:002012-12-03T22:06:32.362-06:00"This is because as Orthodox theology teaches..."This is because as Orthodox theology teaches, the Priest is an icon of Christ who was male."<br /><br />I can't picture Christ in a purple dress like the Anglican priests wear. Nor do I want to!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-25934092325170727672012-12-03T22:04:31.792-06:002012-12-03T22:04:31.792-06:00I have to say though, women look less silly in the...I have to say though, women look less silly in the purple costumes their bishops wear than men do. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-64011504366357732902012-12-01T07:36:57.306-06:002012-12-01T07:36:57.306-06:00If you want reasons why women should not be ordain...If you want reasons why women should not be ordained all you have to do is look at what has happened to the Episcopal and other sects who cave into to feminist pressure and have begun to ordain women. In every one women's ordination opens the door to all sorts of theological heresies like same sex marriage and "Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier" instead of "Father, Son and Holy Spirit." This is because as Orthodox theology teaches, the Priest is an icon of Christ who was male. If the icon is changed our understanding of what the icon represents is also changed. If we accept the argument that it is unjust not to ordain women, we admit that the Church has been guilty of a great injustice for almost 2,000 years. This opens the door to other revisions of the Christian Faith to make it just such as ending the "unfair persecution" of gays and lesbians. Archpriest John Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15248014086614317924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-66742361616089778002012-11-29T21:23:16.943-06:002012-11-29T21:23:16.943-06:00Thank you, Josephus Flavius, for re-posting this.
...Thank you, Josephus Flavius, for re-posting this.<br /><br />CJ is right, I was avoiding to articulate the arguments against ordaining women. Because among Anglicans, they carry no weight. <br /><br />Why we do need clergy I addressed (only in part) in a follow-up post, http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6546468339418636140#editor/target=post;postID=9169487607704184769<br /><br />Also, I'd like to make it clear that people, including me, do also go to our parish priest. It's just that the the ones who know her go to Adamantia more.<br /><br />Again, thanks.Anastasia Theodoridishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-59380169911708136012012-11-29T17:58:02.249-06:002012-11-29T17:58:02.249-06:00What a couple of pathetic looking pictures. FEMINS...What a couple of pathetic looking pictures. FEMINSM!!!! people!. Your looking right at it. Maybe I should dress up as a Nun and start balling my eyes out and take a picture of myself, then titling it "Orthodoxy Not Allowing Males To Be Nuns". Then paste it all over the world media, so society and the media feels sorry for me!. And promotes my pathetic cause. No different. God gave males and females, both equal, but different roles. Today's society gives males and females equal, and the same roles. Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01725445787551443589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-34061271662752740032012-11-29T16:21:36.153-06:002012-11-29T16:21:36.153-06:00If priestesses are allowed -- which they are, in t...If priestesses are allowed -- which they are, in the Church of England -- there is no logical reason to prohibit female "bishops" within the same organization. Theology certainly does not govern those people any more. <br /><br />CJ's remarks are apt, although I read the article with the assumption that the author took the appropriate theological viewpoints as "a given", not necessary to be reestablished. I was thinking that earlier blog posts would have dealt with all that.<br /><br />At any rate, the second photograph amuses me. The people look like actors who had just finished a play, and were applauding the performance. The women in clerical garb look so comical! A readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00330876142449304359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-11448813800350401502012-11-29T15:17:07.116-06:002012-11-29T15:17:07.116-06:00I enjoyed the article, but I think there's a p...I enjoyed the article, but I think there's a pitfall in the trend of articles basically saying that we don't need women clergy because you can serve Christ without being ordained. Namely, why do we need clergy at all then? Adamantia can comfort and advise better than Father Stephen? Then why does he get the salary? The Holy Spirit consecrates the Eucharist? Then why is the priest there, anyway? <br /><br />It seems to me to be an attempt to avoid actually articulating arguments against female ordination. <br /><br />CJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13883761718979175423noreply@blogger.com