Well, #Anglican #doctrine will not give you a pope. The Archbishop of Canterbury is not a pope, and every national church is #autocephalous.
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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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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 @la_bug_epoque
In matters temporal, however, the most exalted and saintly bishop is subject to the imperium of the emperor or king.
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Replying to @LueYee @la_bug_epoque
In matters spiritual, apostolic authority is in the word of God, and all the actually spiritual authority of a bishop is derivative from it.
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Replying to @LueYee
But in terms of hierarchy would it not make sense to grant supremacy to one holy office seen as successor to peter lest sectarianism infect?
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This alleged supremacy of
#StPeter never existed even in his lifetime.#StPaul opposed him to his face when he compromised with#Judaizers.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
"What you bound on earth will be bound in heaven, what you loose in earth..." from the mouth of Christ his supremacy is plain
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