Field guide to Anglican churchmanship


More on the high thing. And: schism (nobody tells the king who he can’t sleep with) + Erastianism (fallible church: the king’s/ruling class’s whim is all that matters; a.k.a. the state is now your god too) + Calvinism (importing the ‘Reformation’) -> the ‘Enlightenment’ shattering most English people’s faith -> deep freezer of latitudinarian moralism (‘Evangelism?! Isn’t everyone already an Episcopalian who ought to be?’) -> pigging out on granola. Also: like everybody else it has the rights to govern itself and defend its property. That’s all you need to know.

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