What is it about?
Account of a dialogue between Professor Linda Woodhead (Lancaster) and officers of the Church of England about whether gay marriage is the first time UK legislation contradicts Church teaching
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Why is it important?
It reveals a Church of England establishment where unqualified officers consider themselves competent to reject scholarly consensus, and get away with it.
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As a supporter of liberal theology I am concerned about the way church leaders discredit themselves by insisting on inherited dogmas in the teeth of scholarly evidence to the contrary.
Mr Jonathan Clatworthy
University of Liverpool
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This page is a summary of: Questioning the Bishops' Guidance on Same-Sex Marriage, Modern Believing, January 2014, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/mb.2014.27.
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