by Adam Linton » March 19th, 2009, 2:51 pm
Thanks for your response, Lioba.
But we (Anglicans) are not a national church!. The most "typical" Anglican living today is a black woman, under 30, with children, living in Africa. Yes, the churches of the Anglican Communion trace their histories (in different ways) through the Church of England, but we are profoundly multi-cultural, multi-national. We are much stronger and larger than we ever were during the time of the British Empire.
Reflecting on my own 22 year experience in the Orthodox Church, I would have to say that I found it much, much more nationally and culturally specific (in fact, profoundly so) than anything I've observed (or heard of) in the Anglican/Episcopal world.
No serious Anglican/Episcopal theologian would disguise the fact that we are and have been at least as "Reformed" as "Catholic." Far from hiding this, most of us view it as both a key distinctive and a notable strength!
All the best to you.
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