"Church" of Sweden "queers" Jesus

[TheMortenBay]

How can these two concepts of priesthood coexist? Wouldnt the Danish Church be better off as two Churches?

This was a HUGE question in the 1950s. The quivalent to Danish Inner Mission literally tore the Church of Sweden apart. But Denmark is renowned for the ability to compromise and in the political system most bills are passed “across the middle” with a broad unity across the board. I think it’s a cultural thing that we prefer compromise to compartmentalising.
But whether they’d be better off I’ll leave to the Church of Denmark to decide. I certainly decided I was better off elsewhere.

 

[ATraveller]

This was a HUGE question in the 1950s. The quivalent to Danish Inner Mission literally tore the Church of Sweden apart. But Denmark is renowned for the ability to compromise and in the political system most bills are passed “across the middle” with a broad unity across the board. I think it’s a cultural thing that we prefer compromise to compartmentalising.
But whether they’d be better off I’ll leave to the Church of Denmark to decide. I certainly decided I was better off elsewhere.

Your insight is greatly appreciated.

In the Church of England, when they allowed women bishops a few years ago, they had to set up Alternative Episcopal Oversight for parishes that find women bishops an impossibility. So parishes in any diocese with a woman bishop would be under the oversight of suffrigan bishops. I don’t see this will prevent the break up of the C of E as the problems run very deep.

 

[meltzerboy2]

I thought they are mainly bashed for cherry-picking news stories to suit their own ideology.

 

[Padres1969]

One does not equate to the other. Particularly if you’re being charitable.

 

[ltwin]

I’m not amazed they are shrinking fast, I’m amazed they have any people left at all.

A lot of these congregations are older, and they’re not having as many children as needed for replacement. The only reason more congregations don’t close is that many mainline churches have large historic endowments they can draw on and survive financially while their membership dwindles.

 

[prayerrider]

Already stated: the main purpose of LifeSite is opposing abortion. If that includes opposing pro-abortion politicians, good on LifeSite.
They also oppose the normalization of homosexual activity in the Catholic Church. Again, good on them.

 

[prayerrider]

Faith in a god of his own making, perhaps.
Anyway, this sidebar is irrelevant and pointless. Done.

 

[AlNg]

Anyway, this sidebar is irrelevant and pointless.

I suppose it is a possibility that the Church of Sweden got some ideas from what this Catholic theologian, a man of deep faith, had written a while ago.

 

[commenter]

Already stated: the main purpose of LifeSite is opposing abortion. If that includes opposing pro-abortion politicians, good on LifeSite.
They also oppose the normalization of homosexual activity in the Catholic Church. Again, good on them.

Better to say the LSN affirms the Natural Law, once universally affirmed by Catholics, Lutherans, other Christians and most non Christians.

This isn’t a Catholic specific teaching, you could say Catholics are affirming
a historic part of Lutheranism too. So LSN is ecumenical on a deeper sense than that term usually is used nowadays. Nowadays ecumenism seems to look for the least common denominator.