Anglicans and Episcopalians Part Company

Sep 12  Hudson Barton. Comments: 0
Going Their Separate Ways

Presiding Bishop Schori and the entire Episcopalian (TEC) leadership have a remarkable vision.  Anglicans disagree with that vision (of Bible-free religion), but they ought to admire it for its clarity and courage.  


TEC leaders seem to recognize that they passed the fork in the road long ago and there is no going back.  As they proceed down that road, they are rapidly discarding Anglican distinctives and replacing them with new traditions, new liturgies, etc.  It will be no surprise if the preamble to TEC's constitution is amended at some point to disavow the Anglican Communion and the CofE altogether, except as an historical relationship.


Would that there was as much clarity and courage on the Anglican side.  The new Anglicans may be desperate to distinguish themselves from TEC, but they are unwilling to discard the traditions and liturgies that are uniquely Episcopalian.  The key next step in the Anglicans’ (Anglican Church in North America) process of clarification (purification) will be to purge themselves of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.

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