[Magdalen] Thoughts at 5:30 AM

[Ginga Wilder]

Thank you, Roger!  Fascinating.

Ginga

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 6:24 AM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 28/08/2016 01:12, Ginga Wilder wrote:
>
>> Oh, Judy.  I am so sorry.  I do not remember his name but that means
>> nothing.  +Fitz Allison was a fan of John Stott....same book.  I took a
>> diocesan course (CET'86) that the bishop required for all Christian
>> Educators.  I was DCE at my parish.  I found Stott's theology unbearably
>> glued to the right.
>>
>
> Apart from when he was away at school and university Stott's religious
> life was based at All Souls, Langham Place in London. (That strikes me as a
> strange dedication for the church which was the hub of Evangelicalism in
> the Church of England at the time.) Hacing gone there with his mother he
> was ordained to serve as Curate there before being Rector for 30 years
> until the pressure of outside calls for gis ministry prompted his
> resignation, five years after he had appointed a Vicar to actually do the
> work of leading the church.  According to Wikipedia his mentor was Eric
> Nash, an Evangelical priest employed by the Scripture union, who saw his
> ministry as being to call the boys (only boys in those days) at the leading
> public (private in US speak) schools to Christ.  The camps he hed were
> apparently on militaristic lines.
>
> I think it fair to say that Stott had a very narrow appreciation of the
> breadth of Anglican tradition. Now on the other side of the Pearly Gates he
> should be beginning to understand how much he ignored in this life.
>
> Roger
>