The Simon Sarmiento’s Journal blog has a report on a Telegraph [UK] article. The article describes how some evangelical parishes in the UK are threatening to withhold funds from their dioceses. Two commenters on the blog have this to say:
I think it’s naughty — at least, it will discredit the term — to use “orthodox” to mean “our sort of evangelical”. Obviously, the self-styled “orthodox” will do so. But newspapers shouldn’t.
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. . . This use of “orthodox” is simply a propaganda technique. These evangelicals are neo-Calvinist who don’t even interpret Calvin that well. Revisionists, who’d toss out centuries of Anglican doctrine to serve their narrow, partisan, socio-political ends.
After all, how “orthodox” is it to disobey your Bishop and withhold funding from your Diocese as a form of blackmail ?
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