Anglicans, with all Christians, should be chiefly concerned with projecting biblical faith into the community — not with projecting the community’s values into the faith.<\/p>\n
Alas, such rich debates among Anglicans are fast falling into irrelevance.<\/p>\n
Via media — the Anglican motto, meaning by way of the middle — has disintegrated into infighting, and it’s taking the Anglican Communion with it.<\/p>\n
But we must remember that for a time, the Church of England, even with all her contradiction, vulnerability to error and organizational shortcomings, was sufficient. Glorious, even.<\/p>\n
For she stood, above all else, for the freedom of the English people and the supremacy of the Sovereign.<\/p>\n
She was an expression of England’s identity, a bulwark of national independence and, at her best, an endeavour to fuse Enlightenment with Revelation.<\/p>\n
And so we’re left with the hard questions.<\/p>\n
Is Anglicanism itself an anachronism? A vestige of empire? Destined to succumb to the pulsating rush of liturgical, spiritual and cultural change?<\/p>\n
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