Scott
Puritan Board Graduate
I was watching A&E's Pride & Prejudice last night. One of the conflicts arises over whether a protagonist (Mr. Darcy) fulfilled his deceased father's will (as in the document left to take effect when someone dies) by offering a person designated in the will (the son of a servant of the Darcy family) a position as a parish priest when the boy came of age.
I did not realize that this sort of appointment (treating the office of minister, along with its benefices, as a family possession) was still operating in Victorian England.
Anyway have a history of the treatment of church offices in this way? What a terrible perversion of the doctrine of calling described in the scriptures.
Scott
I did not realize that this sort of appointment (treating the office of minister, along with its benefices, as a family possession) was still operating in Victorian England.
Anyway have a history of the treatment of church offices in this way? What a terrible perversion of the doctrine of calling described in the scriptures.
Scott
