Perhaps my Irish catholic lineage imposes a mental bias against such decentralized theology
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @LueYee
I desire ordered hierarchy...the best of which is offered by Rome, even if at the current moment it is pozzed as all get out
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque
Well,
#Anglican#doctrine will not give you a pope. The Archbishop of Canterbury is not a pope, and every national church is#autocephalous.1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes -
Replying to @LueYee
I must research more. But isn't christs declaration of peter as the rock a clear designation if not for a pope, but some central authority?
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @LueYee
And maybe my American bias is showing, but Anglicanism's separation from this authority merely a symptom of its monarchy rebelling against R
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque
The central authority is already there: the word of God itself, from which no one may derogate and live.
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Replying to @LueYee @la_bug_epoque
Actually, it was the
#papacy, by its very existence as a false institution opposed to the#gospel, that was in rebellion against God.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @LueYee @la_bug_epoque
Apostolic authority, however, is in every bishop, and it was the revisionism of Rome that said otherwise.
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Replying to @LueYee
The establishment of Rome may have been an artifact of local geopolitics of the time...
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @LueYee
But still the ascendancy of peter over all other lays the groundwork for the legitimacy of Rome.
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Then again I am unsure of why I argue so earnestly for a church I'm not sure I believe in.
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