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The Rev. Bradley Wilson, of Fox Chapel Episcopal Church, has prepared a very complete overview and discussion of the crisis in the Episcopal Church.  Clearly writing from a conserving perspective, Wilson argues that the theological issues at stake in this debate are foundational to the Christian Faith.  This document, which was initially released in the fall of 2007, has since been updated and reformated.

“Isn’t this controversy just about homosexuality?

No. The media knows that sex sells well in the public press, especially when mixed with the exotic catalysis of religion. But, no, it’s not about homosexuality; it’s about a new religion. We the reading public are as much to blame. Few among us would rally around these news flashes: East Coast Bishop Abandons Arianism for Panentheism or Nonreaffirmation of Foundational Documents by the House of Bishops Renders Hermenuetics Irrelevant. The sex headlines glitter while these fall flat. But the first headline announces, truly, that an Episcopal bishop has moved from the already heretical position that Jesus was like God but not God (Arianism) to the proposition that God doesn’t really exist as anything other than a sort of espirt de corp or team spirit of planet earth.”

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