tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post2270927328090527416..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: News from the East. . . .Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-71292876896848292882017-01-16T21:00:53.866-06:002017-01-16T21:00:53.866-06:00Anonymous said...
Eastern Orthodox do not believe ...Anonymous said...<br />Eastern Orthodox do not believe in this so-called "priesthood of all believers." We believe in the Royal Priesthood of the baptized. An important difference.<br /><br />Would you mind explaining the important difference, please? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-65559549474230274892017-01-14T20:12:27.445-06:002017-01-14T20:12:27.445-06:00Lutherans have the 250 year (ca 1550-1800) example...Lutherans have the 250 year (ca 1550-1800) example of Lutheran women serving the church from Imperial Abbeys. Napoleon's mediatizations ca 1800 blew that all away, so that we have almost no conception of what those Lutheran women did. 50 years later, Lutherans were developing the roles of deaconesses. Whatever it was that these Lutheran women were doing at the Abbeys, still needed to be done even after Napoleon faded away. One thing that I know they did was to protect noble women who became pregnant out of wedlock, giving them a place of refuge during their pregnancy. That Augustus the Strong of Saxony (ca 1720) supplied one such noble woman to the Abbey at Quedlinburg is known. These Evangelical (no vows), yet cloistered women are a blind spot in the collective Lutheran memory that needs more light. Here is a link to the Wiki article about the first Lutheran Abbess at Quedlinburg: <br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_II,_Abbess_of_QuedlinburgJoannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09777514643611989502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-55092578894922545532017-01-14T11:28:00.217-06:002017-01-14T11:28:00.217-06:00Eastern Orthodox do not believe in this so-called ...Eastern Orthodox do not believe in this so-called "priesthood of all believers." We believe in the Royal Priesthood of the baptized. An important difference.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-75238686710666863502017-01-14T09:22:16.876-06:002017-01-14T09:22:16.876-06:00The "priesthood of all believers" can be...The "priesthood of all believers" can be understood as sharply defined roles for deacons and deaconesses. Those who want to carry this further into ordination and preaching as pastors are misguided. The role of pastor, in God's economy, is meant for men only. This does not infer women are inferior, but recognizes there are differences between men and women, and we are not unisexual beings. God created us not only with biological differences, but in order to advance the human race in an orderly fashion. Eve was created as a "helpmate" for Adam, not as his leader. We cannot deny this reality, but some women and liberal men who see no difference between the sexes are in rebellion against the spirit and intent of the teachings of Genesis.John Joseph Flanaganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06596324816480709495noreply@blogger.com