[Magdalen] Bishop, please resign

[James Handsfield]

I’m not one of those who buys into the ontological argument.  I think ordained orders are a mantle laid across the shoulders of the cleric and represents the Church recognizing who they are, not unlike Elijah removing his mantle and placing it on the shoulders of Elisha.

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Thinking one can behave their way into heaven is an insult to the very foundation of salvation.

Jim Handsfield
jhandsfield at att.net

> On Jan 29, 2015, at 7:33 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
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> Ordination, like baptism, effects an ontological change and cannot be undone.  That is why a clergyperson under discipline retains the orders and the relevant honorifics that have been bestowed on them. This has to be separated from the right to exercise the functions relevant to that order, a right which can be revoked by due process.  At the moment Heather Cook is still a bishop whose episcopal orders are recognized by TEC but she cannot exercise them.