Essay 6, Footnote #04
But has any bishop ordained an avowed postnatalist?
I do not know that any bishop has actually gone quite so far. Mr. Rashdall, indeed, informs us that ``the most learned and universally respected theologian among the English bishops of this generation consented to ordain a candidate who confessed to him that the question of the miraculous birth was to him an open question''. But there is a not immaterial difference between saying that one believes what one disbelieves, and saying that one believes something about which one is suspending one's judgment. Mr. Rashdall's bishop may have allowed himself to hope that the balance of his candidate's judgment would shortly incline on the orthodox side.