As will be apparent to everyone who has been keeping up with recent events, the Archdruid is very exercised by Higgs Bosons. Rather specifically, in fact, by the lack of them. But one thing that we do know exists is the speed of light. And it's inviolable. So tradition tells us, anyway.
Now, I'm not say that woman bishops are inviolable, or inviolate, or into violins, but, just as the speed of light is traditionally held to be unbreakable, so woman bishops were supposed to be impossible.
So, what happens when you begin to get evidence to suggest that woman bishops may, just may, exist? You do what any good scientist does, of course, and see if your friends agree. You send out to the diocesan synods, which are like your physicist peer communities, and ask if they can see them, as well. And if it turns out that they do exist, then tradition may have got some things wrong, and everyone's going to have to reevaluate rather a lot of things that they thought they knew.
Episcopy != male closed clique.
One is an oxymoron, the other seems to be a paradox. One can never exist (except perhaps poetically), the other may exist.
ReplyDeleteRita - are the two you're describing women bishops and speeding neutrinos, or Episcopacy and a male clique?
ReplyDeleteI get so confused with these quantum questions - all the answers are just more questions.
Or was it flying Bishops and female neutrinos?
ReplyDelete