{"id":27825,"date":"2011-11-07T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T05:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=27825"},"modified":"2011-11-07T00:01:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T05:01:43","slug":"occupy-london-and-the-church-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/11\/07\/occupy-london-and-the-church-of-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy London and the Church of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"London protests prick Anglican conscience\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n-qlffnDwhc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>A report on the conflict between the Occupy movement and the business interests of the Church of England.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Frye in &#8220;The Church: Its Relation to Society&#8221;:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The society of power is always a close and searching parody of the society of love. So close and searching, in fact, that without revelation it is hardly possible for man to separate the latent heaven from the latent hell in his own society or in his social thinking. In the kingdom of God there is no place for Caesar as Caesar, for there is no respect of persons there; in the kingdom of Caesar there is nothing but the respect of persons, and hence no place for God as God. In such a society Caesar has to become God. (CW 4, 255-6)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Frye in &#8220;The Analogy of Democracy&#8221;:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>People attached to churches often speak of political issues as though the church were withdrawn from the world, waiting for the world to offer it various theories of government and then inspecting them in order to decide whether they are comparable with Christianity or not. No such remoteness exists. Members of the church are in the world from the start: their secular passions and prejudices inform and shape their conceptions of religion at every point: to be persistently wrong about the contemporary world is a theological error. We have reached the stage in democratic development at which we can roundly say that if any twentieth-century Christian sincerely repudiates what democracy stands for, there is something radically the matter with his Christianity. . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The church can mediate between the Gospel and the law only when they have been clearly separated. Failure to separate them is Pharisaism, the legalized bastard gospel. When we look at the way the church uses its social energy and influence . . . we can hardly be reassured about the courage, wisdom, or effectiveness of the church&#8217;s approach to society. 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