The Anglican Itch
August 20, 2012 2 Comments
The Anglican Itch by Prof Cyril Jenkins:
… Again, I have a debt to Anglicans. I know that many are faithful who have suffered mentally and emotionally to try to keep their faith intact. My points here are not that good and faithful people are not to be found among the Anglicans, but that Anglicanism itself suffers from a lack of true catholicity. There are certainly catholic and orthodox people within it (I need only think of my brother), but is it where the Orthodox Catholic Church is to be found?
Worth a read at the start of the working week.
HT: William Tighe
About Fr Stephen Smuts
Indeed a thoughtful piece, but this piece about the theology of G.C. Berkouwer is simply grand, and a thoughtful challenge, itself! Note, Berkouwer is Dutch Reformed, and not Anglican strictly, but he does challenge my Evangelical Anglicanism, and in a good way. One should note his friendly, but critical book: The Second Vatican Council And The New Catholicism, (1965). (I have this book myself). He was also (as Barth), an invited observer to the Second Vatican Council (II). So let us “itch” all…Protestant and Catholic!
http://www.all-of-grace.org/pub/others/hole_in_dike.html
Yes, I am to some degree a conservative neo-evangelical, as both Barth and Berkouwer, but always an Anglican and Reformed!