http://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/09/trouncing-or-misfire.html
[Anglican Curmudgeon] 19 Sep 2008--Progressive Episcopalians Pittsburgh have published a paper by Dr. Joan Gundersen, a specialist in Episcopal Church history, which was written in response to attorney Mark McCall's study published at the Anglican Communion Institute, "Is the Episcopal Church Hierarchical?" (I wrote a brief summary of its 89 pages here.)
Over at his Preludium site, Canon Mark Harris trumpets: "Gundersen Trounces McCall: Episcopal Church IS Hierarchical." (The link to Gundersen's paper at Preludium is currently broken, and you should follow the one above.) I would not be so quick to rush to the bleachers, Canon Harris.
I have had time to give Dr. Gundersen's paper only a cursory look this morning, but what I have read is enough to tell me that she writes from the standpoint of a church historian, and shows little understanding for, or appreciation of, the legal context in which Mark McCall's arguments are carefully couched. His paper was, after all, an analysis of a legal problem: would a court of law today be correct in holding that The Episcopal Church is hierarchical?
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