In her opening remarks at The Episcopal Church's General Convention, the Presiding Bishop Katharine Schori declared that personal salvation is 'the great Western heresy: that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God.' Conservative Anglicans have reacted to Schori's musings with shock and horror.
But why be so surprised? The theology of collectivist salvation, wherein personal salvation is heresy, has been bubbling up in the Episcopal Church since 1979. Because of a misreading of history, a denial of tradition, and an ignorance of theology the version of the Nicene Creed in the 1979 BCP was changed to say "We believe" rather than "I believe". Episcopalians have been reciting it every Sunday since then. So it is not a surprise that most now see their salvation in collectivist terms.
The true Nicene Creed from the 4th century is a "credo", not a "credemus." Credo suggests that every man stands before the judgement seat alone but for Jesus, without reliance upon man or Church or human institution. It means that salvation is personal rather than collective, that God calls us to have a personal relationship with Him. Ironically, the new ACNA which surely complains the loudest about Schori's collectivist theology of salvation refuses (in most of its parishes) to jettison from weekly liturgy the proximate cause of her revisionist doctrine.
N.B. This is a critique of just one aspect of the Nicene Creed that changed in 1979. There are nine other aspects, each representing a revisionist doctrine that has crept into Anglican thinking in the last 30 years. A critique on all ten points is here.