Thursday, November 20, 2014

Better apart: why holding the Church of England together might not be a good idea


The Archbishop of Canterbury's efforts to keep the Church of England together might be torpedoed by evangelicals who refuse to compromise on what they regard as fundamental issues of faith – but that might not be a bad thing, according to a leading academic. Read more

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While the C of E bishops'commitment to the flourishing of conservative evangelicals in the Church of England may be purely rhetorical, the ACNA bishops have not even made a rhetorical commitment to the flourishing of conservative evangelicals in the Anglican Church in North America. On the other hand, they have endorsed an ordinal, trial services, and a catechism that make no room in the ACNA for Anglicans who hold to the teaching of the Scriptures and the doctrine of the Anglican confessional formularies and in doing so have adopted a policy of exclusion toward conservative evangelicals in that denomination. 

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