[faithandlife] RE: [FaithandLife] Anglo Catholics and Evangelicals in the new Church RSVP 2

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From: "Michael Ward" <mward@...>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:27:44 -0500
If I proved your point, then I misunderstood what you were trying to say.  I
thought you said that the present day ECUSA is A/C friendly.  In my
experience it's just the opposite.  Most consistent A/Cs object to women's
ordination.  To make that plain is to be run-out of most ECUSA parishes.

MLW+


I'm confused because you seem to be proving my point, not yours.  EG, both
you and most of ECUSA call the table an altar, while we Evangelicals are
much more apt to call it, along w/Cranmer, a table.  We eat the sacrifice
meal, but it's not something we offer to the Father.  It is being offered to
us.  While ECUSA may buck tradition and install women priests, that seems to
me to simply prove that they are disobedient Anglo-Catholics, not
non-Anglo-Catholics.  They certainly are in no way Evangelicals, and they
seem to share many points of doctine w/my more conservative Anglo-Catholic
friends: sacerdotal priesthood, justification by faith and works, Tradition
and Scripture are equally authoritive, 39 Articles not binding upon
Anglicans, etc.  Yes, they differ on a few points, such as women in the
priesthood, but that just makes them bad Anglo-Catholics, not
non-Anglo-Catholics.  Ritually and doctinally they appear very close.