tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post7901321024977905666..comments2024-03-28T22:29:52.666+13:00Comments on Anglican Down Under: Why I am really, truly Anglican (and maybe you are not)Peter Carrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-2524301420191568282011-01-22T04:04:31.237+13:002011-01-22T04:04:31.237+13:00Reminds me of the joke about the farmer who was su...Reminds me of the joke about the farmer who was surveyed about his religious preferences. He told the interviewer: "I'm a 'pistopal." The interviewer replied,"Oh, do yu attnd the local Episcopal Church?"<br /><br />"No," the farmer replied. "But I went to a 'pistopal church one time, and they said, 'We've done those things we ought not have done, and we didn't do those things we oughtta done' and I figured, ye; that's me. I'm a 'pistopal."Canon Nealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04603366613712590504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-46764254683345646582011-01-20T03:42:57.868+13:002011-01-20T03:42:57.868+13:00The Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral, which was adopt...The Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral, which was adopted by the U.S. House of Bishops (but not by the House of Deputies), wasn't intended to define Anglicanism, but instead to provide the framework for a discussion of unity among the various Christian denominations.<br /><br />It may be a little easier to define what is an Anglican Church than who is an Anglican, which may require more of a window into people's souls than is available. For example, was George Washington an Anglican? He was a life-long member of the Church of England, then later the Episcopal Church. He attended services faithfully, and he often served on the vestry of his parish church. On the other hand, he rarely (if ever) took communion, and some of his biographers believe that he was really more of a deist.<br /><br />But in defining a person or church as "Anglican," in addition to the first requirement of self-identification as Anglican, we should add a second requirement that the person or church be recognized by other Anglicans as Anglican. Which Anglicans would need to do this recognizing is something that would have to be worked out.Paul Powershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04833212693999583069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-11877904669930300732011-01-19T08:02:06.316+13:002011-01-19T08:02:06.316+13:00Spot on Peter. ephraim Radner talked recently abou...Spot on Peter. ephraim Radner talked recently about the dreary relitigation of of issues at every round of discussions in the Anglican church, and this is equally so with the three legged stool theory. Yet I think we could in our hermeneutics project try to come up with some kind of agreement on how we understand this in Aotearoa New Zealand.<br />Rhys LewisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com