--- "Rev. Dr. Derrick Hassert"
<cranmerandlaud@...> wrote:

>   Fr. Charles+
>    
>   Perhaps I misstated or was unclear--
<snip>
Again, in Orthodoxy any national church that
> does this would be immediately separated from the
> rest of the bishops. Not so in Anglicanism,
> especially when the C of E is a major source of
> liberalism and heterodoxy. "Official" Anglicanism
> has a problem in thinking it can change the Catholic
> Faith and apostolic order, and I really feel no need
> for union with Cantur unless the C of E somehow has
> another reformation and cleans house.  
>    <snip>
> 
> A "genuinely global communion of interdependent
> autonomous churches" is what Orthodoxy really has
> (and what Anglicanism could possibly have), and it
> has worked for a good while among the Orthodox
> because it is based on a faith that they know they
> cannot change. For any federation of autonomous
> episcopal churches (this would not then be
> congregationalism because it would be based in the
> national episcopate) to work we have to have have
> accountability in the episcopate--that is what
> official Anglicanism lacks. 
>    >   DH+    
> ---------------------------------


Frs Derrick Hassert and Knox Duncan:

O.K. - I not only hear you  but think I get it.  You
were using the line I objected to differently than the
way I perceived it.  I was thinking of the current
state of affairs in which some self-proclaimed
orthodox continuing "Anglican" bishops are behaving
like congregationalists.

Derrick, I was a bit slow yesterday; after re-reading
what you and Knox said, I see your point.

A federation of autonomous national churches in which
there are bishops within that nation accountable to
one another and to a genuine global communion
(magisterium?) might appear to be the One, Holy,
Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Bp Sutton forsees such a coming Kindom by Mid-century.
Sigh, I'll only be age 113 by then.  Even so, come
Lord Jesus.

Charles+
Church of the Good Shepherd