A concerned voice from Canada

Writing in the Anglican Journal (Canada), Walter Deller, Principal of the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad, Saskatoon says:

More depressing, in my view, is that despite all protestations to the contrary and arguments about confrontation with Islam in Africa and elsewhere, the evangelical side of Anglicanism is leading us more and more toward a form of Christianity which is simply another variant of fundamentalist Islam. This is most evident in the insistence on treating the scriptures as the centre of faith rather than the living Lord Jesus Christ (book as authority rather than the uniquely Christian revelation of God), and on the inability to articulate Christian moral positions that may be distinctly different from the taboos of Islamic and animist culture.

On the other side, it is increasingly clear that our Catholic side is held captive by the desire to reunite with Rome. This is manifesting itself in the continuing denigration and deletion of the authority of all communion bodies such as the Anglican Consultative Council which includes lay people and clergy, and in the increasing desire for more Lambeth gatherings and for more authority over doctrine to be given to primates and other foreign prelates. It becomes clearer and clear why Queen Elizabeth I gave the authority over the prayer book and the church in emergent Anglicanism to Parliament and deliberately bypassed the bishops in many of her crucial decisions.

Posted by Jim Naughton on September 4, 2008 1:03 PM | |
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A great contribution. The more that the Via Media is denigrated, the more VITAL it appears, to *this* Anglican!

JC Fisher

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