Where is Anglicanism heading after GAFCON and Lambeth? Vinay Samuel

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2008/10/19/where-is-anglicanism-heading-after-gafcon-and-lambeth-vinay-samuel/

[Angllican Mainstream] 21 Oct 2008--Why did GAFCON happen – the long view

In the fifties and sixties of the last century John Stott and Jim Packer with others clearly defined the identity of evangelical Anglicans and biblically faithful Anglicanism.

This process enabled evangelical Anglicans to have a space in the midst of a church which they saw as expressing principled comprehensiveness. None of the various elements that made up the Anglican church seriously denied the fundamentals of the faith.

Stott and Packer and their colleagues defined the space for evangelical Anglicans and this was taken up throughout the Anglican Communion to the extent that it existed then. It was still the Church of England writ large and English evangelicals were able to define what evangelical Anglicanism was and the space it occupied throughout the Communion. The vehicles they used were organisations like Eclectics, the Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion, the Church of England Evangelical Council, and their own writings and preaching.