[Magdalen] How to view Presiding Bishop Installation Service

[Sibyl Smirl]

Presbyterian or not, it's anti-Biblical Church, and Presbyterians are 
supposed to pay extreme attention to the Bible, last I noticed.  Paul's 
letters define the importance and core function of Bishops to the whole 
church.  Priests are just "Elders" in the Bible, and Presbyterians don't 
do Priests, either.  They just do Presbyters...?

On 10/25/15 12:02 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
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> In a message dated 10/25/2015 9:38:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
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> On  Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 1:31 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford  <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Jay, you may not have  noticed, but several people on this list are not
>> members of  tec.
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>> Bishops are an anachronism we don't need anymore, and it  is a bit of a
>> surprise to me to think that folks have any qualms with  that.  Numerous
>> folks have expressed profound reservations about  the wisdom of having
>> significant power resting in one induhvidual who  may or may not know how
> to
>> handle  it.>>>>>>>
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> This might have been written by a Presbyterian.
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> I have nothing against Presbyterians, and a lot of my ancestors were  of
> that denomination.  However, Reform ideas sometimes run  completely
> counter to Anglican tenets.  When the Procathedral and next door  First
> Presbyterian had the tradition of joint worship once per year, the bass
> singer
> from the First Presbyterian Choir sitting next to me told me (1)  Eucharist
> every Sunday was "too much," and (2) The sight of a bishop in cope ad
> mitre "made him sick."
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> The fact is that these two downtown churches come from two traditions
> that have often been at odds with the other.  The ethnic makeup of  the
> two congregations is very similar, but that doesn't mean they are all
> alike.
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> I think in this day and age we need to accept each denomination with  its
> inherent baggage, and rejoice in the variety.  Whatever one things  about
> the Anglican Tradition, Anglicans have never felt they had the  exclusive
> conduit to salvation.
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> David Strang.
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