Buyers Remorse

 There just is no escape from my ambivalence, it seems.

With the Anglicans retrenching, they seem more committed to their Protestant identity than their Catholic identity.  They are also attempting to exalt the Bible as their supreme authority.

In one sense, this quite healthy.

The New Anglicans want to know God’s Word Written and live by it.

All Christians should know their Bibles inside and out.

They wish to embrace The Scriptures as inerrant.

The Orthodox claim you only know The Scriptures correctly through life lived in The Church.

But the true identity and location of The Church has been called into question ever since The Great Schism and afterwards The Protestant Reformation.

The Anglicans have, in my feeling and opinion, the kindest view on these matters, refusing to “unchurch” groups and communions that disagree with them.

The Church of England was truly the Church of my fathers.  Hereward The Wake and James Hereward Archdeacon of Taunton (A.D 1320).

God The Holy Spirit was and is at work in The Eastern Orthodox Church.  I also believe The Spirit was still present in the English Church even as she was forced to struggle with Rome and Wittenberg.  

It is spiritually dangerous to deny the working of God in either place or circumstance.  God is everywhere present and fills all things.

So how do I reconcile these seemingly irreconcilable camps?  I can’t, but Christ God can.

Holy Trinity Have Mercy on Me a sinner.