"If we cannot be relatively sure of what God has revealed to us then revelation is an empty concept."

     William J. Abraham, "In defense of Mexit:  disagreement and disunity in United Methodism," a paper presented at the GBHEM/AUMTS theological colloquy entitled "The Unity of the Church and Human Sexuality: Toward a Faithful United Methodist Witness," 10-12 March 2017, and published in Unity of the church and human sexuality:  toward a faithful United Methodist witness (Board of Higher Education and Ministry, United Methodist Church, 2018), 14.

The issue here is not the need for intellectual humility, or the need to be open to further evidence and light; the issue is whether revelation is essentially opaque and needs one more commission to set us straight on what God requires of us.  If theology is yet one more theological seminar overseen by church officials and scholars—aided, of course, by the guidance of the Holy Spirit—then I, for one, dissent from this analogy with the life of the church.  If we really want to resolve matters in the conciliar manner proposed by O’Donovan, then the train to take is the train to Rome.  Vatican II supplies exactly the medicine that is needed to get us out of this dead end in moral theology.  However, Rome alone is no more a solution than scripture alone [(15)].

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