Bishops debate in Dallas

Bishop Stanton, the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, recently invited the Presiding Bishop and retired Episcopal bishop Bill Frey to debate their understandings of how we are saved by God and the role of Jesus in that work. There have been charges that the Presiding Bishop doesn't hew sufficiently to the idea that Jesus is the definitive savior of the world.

"But at times on Saturday, Jefferts Schori sounded like a pitch-perfect voice of orthodoxy.

'Jesus is the ultimate sacrament of God in human flesh – that's what we're getting at when we say he's the only son of God. He's the unique demonstration of divinity in human flesh,' she said."

Read the full account here.

Posted by Nicholas Knisely on December 14, 2009 8:42 AM | |
Comments (1)

Yikes, ++KJS is brave!

I wouldn't respond to an invite to "explain when you stopped beating your wife" for . . . well, for all the cattle in the Diocese of Dallas! :-0

JC Fisher

Posted by tgflux [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 14, 2009 3:48 PM

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