Anglicans disagreeing….

The Guardian is being profound again…: “The late theologian Robert Carroll once described the Anglican way of doing theology as ‘the dodo’s incorporative principle – a means by which everyone wins’. Anglicans, in trying to sort out doctrinal differences among themselves, were always arguing about the precise weight that should be given to scripture, tradition, reason and culture.

The ground rules for such debates always guaranteed inclusion for participants and most reasonable points of view – even those one might passionately oppose. All sides could always claim a victory, since final decisions were seldom reached. It is precisely this kind of ecclesiology that has made Anglicanism such a rare bird for several centuries.

But is the rarity and novelty of Anglicanism about to slide, rather like the dodo, into extinction?”