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...then, the hospital porter's son had long since quit school and was working as an office boy. While serving as a wireless operator in the Royal Air Force, Carey felt the call to the clergy, entered King's College of the University of London and, says a friend, "suddenly realized he was quite bright." Carey eventually earned a Ph.D., specializing in the early church fathers. He has taught at three Evangelical seminaries and was principal of Trinity College, Bristol, when he was named a bishop. He also served two stretches as a parish priest, and advocates an innovation giving...
Theologically, Carey is not on the right wing of Evangelicalism. For instance, he rejects a literal interpretation of the creation and Adam and Eve in Genesis. He has also vexed low-church hard-liners with his increasing friendliness toward Catholicism. As bishop, Carey has taken Anglo-Catholics in his diocese on a pilgrimage to a shrine to the Virgin Mary at Walsingham. In 1985 he declared that Evangelicals and Roman Catholics, though longtime adversaries, now "stand firm together for a historic faith against the insidious bloodletting which extreme liberalism perpetrates on the body Christian." Arthur Leggatt, the general secretary...
...ever vocal Anglican left too appears ready to accept the new Archbishop. After all, Carey has raised $900,000 in his diocese for inner-city aid and has written, "I have never found it easy to believe in God." Moreover, Carey strongly supports priesthood for women; he has even asked priests in Bath and Wells to consider resigning if they oppose women's ordination. His appointment, in fact, is read as a signal that church leaders and Thatcher's Tory government assume that women priests will get the go-ahead during the new Archbishop's reign. On the other hand...
Though no social gospeler, Carey is willing to speak occasionally on political issues. A staunch environmentalist who once said, "God is green," he scolded Thatcher this year when she took a swipe at the ecology movement, and he also criticized the Prime Minister's disputed poll tax. Thatcher nonetheless had no hesitation in giving him the nation's spiritual primacy, no doubt because she agrees with a preappointment editorial in the Economist that declared, "What is needed is an inspiring missionary leader for a church that has lost whatever grip it had on an increasingly pagan country." No bishop...
Lack of the usual upper-crust credentials could be a plus for George Carey, a junior English prelate from the evangelical wing who is the new Archbishop of Canterbury...