No room in the church: archbishop finds himself cast out by evangelicals

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | No room in the church: archbishop finds himself cast out by evangelicals: “Evangelicals, founding their belief on biblical revelation and personal conversion, form the most dynamic and growing element of the CofE and some are rejecting the leadership of their bishops and archbishops. In the 1950s, 7% of worshippers counted themselves as evangelicals, now the figure is 40% and that stretches to 60% of ordinands in training. Although by no means all feel this way, a sizeable proportion do. To their church opponents they are the Taliban, zealous for orthodoxy and the unchanging message of the Bible. To an outsider they can appear more like the Militant Tendency that wreaked havoc inside the Labour party in the 1980s. “