Church traditionalists are not motivated by prejudice but by theological conviction, says Rev Simon Jones in response to letters on the first female archbishop of Canterbury
The recent letters welcoming Sarah Mullally as the next archbishop of Canterbury are right to celebrate her gifts (Letters, 7 October). But it would be a mistake to imagine that those who hold to the church’s traditional teaching on the ordering of ministry are simply “misogynistic”.
Anglican orthodoxy does not rest on hostility to women; it rests on a particular reading of scripture and Catholic order that long predates today’s culture wars. Continue reading…
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