Friday, November 28, 2008

LAMBETH NOTES: As Anglicans, we are what we are

http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=9434

[VirtueOnline] 28 Nov 2008--The historian Jonathan Clark has sparked a telling debate in Anglican circles with his controversial declaration that the Church of England is losing "command of its history" and thus its very identity.

The debate has sparked furious correspondence in our rival newspaper, the Church Times, as readers wedded to rather out-dated Anglican historiography seek to defend the notion of the Church of England as 'reformed catholic' and somehow representing a 'via media' between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.

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