WHAT IS ANGLICANISM ANYWAY?

[angli_fan]

WHAT IS ANGLICANISM ANYWAY?
An essay by Fr. Tony Clavier

Anglicanism is not a flavor of Christianity, not a distinct form of Christianity, not a denomination and not a sect. Of course Anglicanism has features which while not unique may seem so to be. Anglicanism has its own family likeness, history and tradition, largely shaped by the territory in which it finds itself in mission.

...Anglicanism rejects the sectarian ideal that churches are for like-minded "saints"who agree about each others' virtue, or election, or enlightenment, or on an agenda other than the Catholic Faith as described in the Liturgy and other documents, and in the living voice of scripture, the living experience of the Tradition and the living application of sanctified reason.

wvparson.blogspot.com/2006/11/what-is-anglicanism-anyway.html

[anglicansablaze]

I skimmed through Clavier's essay. I think that a goodly number of Anglicans around the world would not agree with his particular redefinition of Anglicanism and a redefinition of Anglicanism is what it is. Indeed, the struggle that has been going on both in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion has been as much a conflict over who defines Anglicanism and how Anglicanism is defined as anything else. The nature of ecclesiological and theological revisionism is to replace other views of the church and the faith with its own. Clavier is just another voice of revisionistic thinking. ;D