[faithandlife] Re: [FaithandLife] What be the church?

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From: "Michael L. Ward" <mward@...>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:42:57 -0500
Paul+ and All+

There is a good article in the December issue of "Touchstone" that deals
with headship, written by a prof at Trinity ESM.  There have also been
several other good works on headship by, as Paul+ points out, mainly Prot
theologians.  This side of the argument seems to allow us to breath with
both lungs (Biblical/Headship issue AND Catholic/Tradition issue).

But, again if I understand Mark's+ question, what does it do to the nature
of the Church?  For some reason, I keep being pulled back to Lewis who's
arguing for another religion and I wonder: "Does that leaven leaven the
whole lump?"  (as Mark+ points out: the ACC argument, not necessarily
"ours.").  Lewis never had to go there since it wasn't an issue -- at least
a realized issue -- when he wrote his essay.  What would he have said the
ordination of women did -- if anything -- to the very essence of the Church?
Any Lewis scholars out there?

MLW+