As of late, (and really for a few years now) we have been flys on the wall of a few varying Continuing Anglican Churches in and around our city. While we ran the "Hoping-for-Orthodoxy" race in the Episcopal Church for a fer years, we always kept an eye out for another Parish to worship in. Some have been good, some have been bad (I'm talking charismatic exorcisms while speaking in tongues) and we have noticed a distinct divide between the varying sects on a key issue. This would be the placement and adherence to the 39 Articles of Religion.
Before I met my wife, and tried one last time in the Episcopal Church, I had myself been involved in the Continuum. I had been a member of one of the very Anglo-Catholic Churches, and was a Seminarian at the personal request of the Archbishop. Here, the 39 Articles were taught, but were not a firm line that they seem to be in the other less Catholic continuing bodies.
We have narrowed down our choice between two Parishes of different jurisdictions, but one being rather Protestant (REC) and the other semi-Anglo-Catholic (The Anglican Church of Virginia). I'm not sure this would ever even come up, but it would be nice to know myself where I stand in relation to the Articles.
This series of posts will no doubt be very fun for me, and quite interesting. I do not foresee this being a slew of posts in Succession, but an intermittent endeavor that I will pop in and out of as time permits.
I would like to try and read them as unbiased as possible (there are Articles that from the get go, I out of habit and tradition know I will oppose), being open to what they mean and say and trying to capture their time frame whilst keeping it in mind.
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