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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mas.to/users/seanbala/statuses/113229696067138775">Sean Bala (seanbala@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 11:00:51 JST</a><a href="https://mas.to/@seanbala" title="seanbala@mas.to"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/102480-48-20240315135612.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Sean Bala" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Sean Bala</a></section><article><p>While mainly aimed at Christians, I think Rowan William's formulation is food for thought for people who care about the world and want change. </p><p>If you are only prophetic, you can sound scolding and shrill. <br>If you are only priestly, you only focus on reconciliation rather than the process. <br>If you are only royal, you focus on solving problems. </p><p>You need all three - and should watch when you fall too much into one. </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Bookstodon" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Books" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Christian" rel="tag">#Christian</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Anglican" rel="tag">#Anglican</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Episcopalian" rel="tag">#Episcopalian</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RowanWilliams" rel="tag">#RowanWilliams</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Theology" rel="tag">#Theology</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3754502#notice-7349924">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-10-01T11:00:51+09:00" title="Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 11:00:51 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mas.to/@seanbala/113229696067138775" rel="external" title="Sent from mas.to via ActivityPub">mas.to</a></span></span><a href="https://mas.to/@seanbala/113229696067138775">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3244403">Quote from "Being Christian" by Rowan Williams: "All these aspects of the baptized life need one another. If we were only called to be prophets, we would be in danger of being constantly shrill nay-sayers to one another and to the world. There is plenty of that in Christian history, and plenty of that in the Christian mentality today. And if we were only priestly, there would be a danger of never asking the difficult questions but moving on as rapidly as we could to reconciliation; let’s forget the difficult middle bit, let’s get to the end of the story. And if we were only talking about royal freedom and justice we would be in danger of constantly thinking in terms of control and problem-solving. But just as in Jesus these three things are inseparably bound up in his work and his words and his death, as in his life, so for us these are three facets of one life, not three isolated bits of a vocation."</a></label><br><a href="https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/229/654/252/027/702/original/7f84d8eb1aa72b32.jpeg" rel="external">https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/229/654/252/027/702/original/7f84d8eb1aa72b32.jpeg</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Sean Bala (seanbala@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 11:00:51 JST Sean Bala
While mainly aimed at Christians, I think Rowan William's formulation is food for thought for people who care about the world and want change.
If you are only prophetic, you can sound scolding and shrill.
If you are only priestly, you only focus on reconciliation rather than the process.
If you are only royal, you focus on solving problems.
You need all three - and should watch when you fall too much into one.
#Bookstodon #Books #Christian #Anglican #Episcopalian #RowanWilliams #Theology
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1. Quote from "Being Christian" by Rowan Williams: "All these aspects of the baptized life need one another. If we were only called to be prophets, we would be in danger of being constantly shrill nay-sayers to one another and to the world. There is plenty of that in Christian history, and plenty of that in the Christian mentality today. And if we were only priestly, there would be a danger of never asking the difficult questions but moving on as rapidly as we could to reconciliation; let’s forget the difficult middle bit, let’s get to the end of the story. And if we were only talking about royal freedom and justice we would be in danger of constantly thinking in terms of control and problem-solving. But just as in Jesus these three things are inseparably bound up in his work and his words and his death, as in his life, so for us these are three facets of one life, not three isolated bits of a vocation."
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