Jeremy Greaves elected next Archbishop of Brisbane
By David Ould, From Anglican Ink. (Editor’s note: can a ‘progressive’ Bishop still be a Christian?)
Earlier this morning an ad clerum was issued to clergy in the Diocese of Southern Queensland (Brisbane) announcing that current Assistant Bishop Jeremy Greaves has been elected the next Archbishop of the diocese (article also available here).
Greaves’ name may be familiar to readers of davidould.net. I reported at the time of his appointment in 2016 as Assistant Bishop by then-Archbishop Philip Aspinall on his extreme progressive position, “New Assistant Bishop of Brisbane is “happy to abandon the Creed”“:
He gained notoriety for himself when Dean of Darwin Cathedral as a proponent of “progressive Christianity”, most recently being lead organiser of the 2016 “Common Dreams” conference in Brisbane. He is an outspoken supporter of same-sex marriage but perhaps even more troubling he rejects key understandings of Christianity that he will be required to reaffirm at his consecration (having already promised at his ordination to teach them). One particular example will suffice.
In a 2010 ABC Radio National interview with Rachael Kohn he took part in a discussion of Progressive Christianity. The interview includes this exchange:
Rachael Kohn: Do you specifically then have difficulties with the Apostles’ Creed that you might like to rewrite it or ditch it?
Jeremy Greaves: I’d be happy to abandon the Creed.
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