Education
Australian National University. University of Melbourne.
(Sydney Anglicans, always ultra-conservative in terms of l...)
Sydney Anglicans, always ultra-conservative in terms of liturgy, theology and personal morality, have increasingly modelled themselves on sixteenth century English Puritanism. Over the past few decades, they have added radical congregationalism to the mix. They have altered church services, challenged church order, and relentlessly opposed all attempts to ordain women as priests, let alone bishops. Muriel Porter unpacks how Australia's largest and, until recently, richest diocese developed its ideological fervour, and explores the impact it is having both in Australia and the Anglican Communion.
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( The local and international effects of the ideological ...)
The local and international effects of the ideological agenda of the diocese of Sydney—the largest, richest, and most influential diocese in the Anglican Church of Australia—are explored in this commentary. Over the past few decades, Anglicans in Sydney have increasingly modeled themselves on the sixteenth-century English Puritans, altering church services to strictly oppose the equality of women in the Church and preventing the Church's blessing of same-sex partnerships and the ordination of gay people.With this increasing religious fundamentalism, it is theorized that a schism within the Church of England may occur.
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Australian National University. University of Melbourne.
She is critical of megachurches and is an advocate of the ordination of women, homosexual unions and allowing non-celibate homosexual people to become clergy. She was involved in the formation of an Anglican submission recommending abortion be legalised in Victoria. Muriel Porter was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to Richard John Carter and Thelma Edith Richards.
She was educated at Riverside Girls High School in Gladesville, the University of New England, the Australian National University, the Australian Catholic University and the University of Melbourne.
Porter began a career in journalism as a cadet at the Sydney Morning Herald and then worked for a number of different newspapers including the Cambridge Evening News. Porter"s theological view points are liberal.
Liturgically she is in the Anglo-Catholic tradition.
( The local and international effects of the ideological ...)
(Sydney Anglicans, always ultra-conservative in terms of l...)
Porter was a member of staff at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in the journalism program and holds an honorary position at the University of Melbourne, lecturing on Historical and Philosophical Studies.