Thank you & bless you Father. You are 100% right it is a complex history and I feel you can't remove the political forces that drove a lot of the reformation. It is a world reality that most living in 2024 can't comprehend existed where dissent in religious matters was looked at on the same light as sedition or treason.
The nuances and complexity of Anglican history are now paralleled by what is occurring in the R Catholic church after VII. Hegelianism, one of those gifts from the German church which keeps on giving, now rules in theological circles and has devastated the traditional expression the the Faith. The whole synodal craze on the part of the church's ruling elite, which opens them up to membership in the WEF, now that the devil has taken them to the top of the temple, is an example of this. As to being called revisionists, I find that curious. I would view most Anglican Catholics, along with conservative RCs as restorationists not revisionists. You are not attempting to deny that "history has occurred". You are merely pointing out that certain historical or theological fads have proven quite wanting and we need to return to our senses. The "christian" progressives head towards the cliff like lemmings, ignoring blatant warning signs like empty churches. Christian restorationists see the cliff and quite reasonably decide to turn back. God did endow us with a certain amount of transcendent reasoning in our understanding of Scripture and discernment sustained by the Paraclete to be used when necessary.
I have long been an admirer of Richard Baxter who called himself Reformed Catholick which I have always thought was a good term. A knowledge of history teaches us that the Church in the West was very diverse before the Reformation. There was never “one” church prior to the Reformation.
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I call myself an Anglican Catholic. I'm a member of TEC.
Thank you & bless you Father. You are 100% right it is a complex history and I feel you can't remove the political forces that drove a lot of the reformation. It is a world reality that most living in 2024 can't comprehend existed where dissent in religious matters was looked at on the same light as sedition or treason.
The nuances and complexity of Anglican history are now paralleled by what is occurring in the R Catholic church after VII. Hegelianism, one of those gifts from the German church which keeps on giving, now rules in theological circles and has devastated the traditional expression the the Faith. The whole synodal craze on the part of the church's ruling elite, which opens them up to membership in the WEF, now that the devil has taken them to the top of the temple, is an example of this. As to being called revisionists, I find that curious. I would view most Anglican Catholics, along with conservative RCs as restorationists not revisionists. You are not attempting to deny that "history has occurred". You are merely pointing out that certain historical or theological fads have proven quite wanting and we need to return to our senses. The "christian" progressives head towards the cliff like lemmings, ignoring blatant warning signs like empty churches. Christian restorationists see the cliff and quite reasonably decide to turn back. God did endow us with a certain amount of transcendent reasoning in our understanding of Scripture and discernment sustained by the Paraclete to be used when necessary.
I have long been an admirer of Richard Baxter who called himself Reformed Catholick which I have always thought was a good term. A knowledge of history teaches us that the Church in the West was very diverse before the Reformation. There was never “one” church prior to the Reformation.