{"id":74,"date":"2012-04-04T08:52:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T08:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2012-04-04T08:52:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T08:52:43","slug":"excellent-milbank-article-on-the-future-of-the-anglican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Milbank article on the future of the Anglican Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.respublica.org.uk\/\/item\/After-Rowan-The-Coherence-and-Future-of-Anglicanism\">here <\/a>(h\/t @res_publica on Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>I particularly liked this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;the need to amend the growing incompetence and theological incoherence on the ground. There are three crucial elements that stand out:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Almost ubiquitous liturgical chaos, where many evangelicals and liberals alike have little sense of what worship is for.<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; The increasing failure of many priests to perform their true priestly roles of pastoral care and mission outreach, in a predominantly &#8220;liberal&#8221; and managerialist ecclesial culture that encourages bureaucratisation and over-specialisation. &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Perhaps most decisive is the collapse of theological literacy among the clergy &#8211; again, this is partly a legacy of the 1960s and 70s (made all the worst by the illusion that this was a time of enlightening by sophisticated German Protestant influence), but it has now been compounded by the ever-easier admission of people to the priesthood with but minimal theological education, and often one in which doctrine is regarded almost as an optional extra.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can be found here (h\/t @res_publica on Twitter). I particularly liked this: &#8220;&#8230;the need to amend the growing incompetence and theological incoherence on the ground. There are three crucial elements that stand out: &#8211; Almost ubiquitous liturgical chaos, where many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=74\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-1c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}