I think it's extremely silly how some Anglicans' response to the current state of the church is to keep angrily replaying 19th-century or earlier disputes on an endless loop. Raging about John Wesley or the Oxford Movement on Twitter isn't building up the kingdom of God.
@Jerry_kitlee@refinersfiremu1 @RefConformist Sort of. My grasp is that in TEC there was a reaction to excesses of earlier liberal theology, with a kind of latent neo-orthodox consensus reigning up until about 1960, when the ground started to shift.
Very true. Anglicans and Presbys remain higher IQ traditions to this day, but they’ve shrunk significantly and I think a lot of intellectual traditional Episcopalians who couldn’t stomach progressive theology went to Rome
Counterpoint: "17th and 18th century Anglicans did not...'fence the table' against their Lutheran and Reformed brethren, instead regarding shared Protestant doctrine as the basis for Lutherans and Reformed to receive the Sacrament."
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They were called Boxers by Americans because they’d practice group martial arts outdoors. They believed their kung fu made them impervious to bullets. When they tried to kill all the foreigners in the embassies in Beijing, US Marine Dan Daly single-handedly defeated 200+ of them.
@rightwingnutrs In a weird twist, it’s actually made the Liberal Party competitive again, whereas before this issue they were looking at a disastrous blowout.
@rightwingnutrs In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 I think significant immigration reduction was absolutely viable, but back then that was something out of the Democrat playbook.