Anglicans invited to take a Catholic view of Mary.

I stand corrected. I completely missed your post Matt. I will respond.

My question was more to the point of doctrine. For example can local Anglican congregations define their own doctrines? Is it "acceptable" to have an entirely different set of doctrines at each Anglican church - or is there an expectation that holding to Anglican beliefs makes a statement about what doctrines they accept.

Could a local congregation be "non-trinitarian" for example? And would this be considered "par for the course" within the denomination because after all they are decentralized?? Would they simply lament unpopular beliefs held at the congregational level as "a symptom of our decentralized structure"??

In Christ,

Bob

 

In Adelaide, you cannot as a non-member of the Anglican Church recieve communion, yet at the Evangelical Anglican churches you can, they are not state run by their association but run from another state from which there diocese is co-ordinated, so although both groups are Anglican, yes they have different leadership.

 

Are these actual denominations or simply popular labeling of a single denomination into subgroups??

So a central structure that defines Anglican teaching as accepting innerrancy??

So 3 different answers.

How do the 3 answers to #1 "flow" into #2?

Is there a A-C group that teaches Creationism in their Churhces and universities?

Are they in fact all teaching evolutionism??

That seems like a big jump. Is there centralized confusion or agreement or is this congregation by congregation.

THe same question for these differences - are they simply local congregational views - or are there 3 different centralized governing bodies defining the 3 positions?

In Christ,

Bob

 

No, there are not three centralising governing bodies. There are various pressure groups within Anglicanism which 'fly the flag' for different flavours of Anglicanism eg: evangelical , A-C and A-C and liberal . In some cases, it is the type of bishop which determines the type of congregations in his diocese. There is a world of difference between say Gene Robinson and Michael Nazir-Ali, but they are part of the same communion and both, in theory at least along with every other ordained Anglican clergyman, subscribes to the 39 Articles.

To answer another of your questions, those who accept inerrancy would tend also to go along with a literalist interpretation og Gen 1&2. That phenomenon is of course not confined to Anglicanism

Yours in Christ

Matt

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