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Published by Justin Lewis-Anthony on 26 May 2008

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Muddled Disagreement

The Daily Telegraph found one priest in the diocese of Newcastle, the Rev George Curry, to condemn the idea: “You cannot have the Church endorsing immorality particularly in a marriage ceremony which in the eyes of God is an adulterous union. The church is getting muddled in our moral views.”

I love this use of “muddled” to mean “people are disagreeing with me.”

Andrew Brown, The Church Times, Friday, 6th November 1998

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Published by Justin Lewis-Anthony on 26 May 2008

Anglican Roots : 1593 Richard Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity


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One way in which the mythful retelling of the events of the sixteenth century works its way out is this: after the confusion of the reign of Henry, the austerity of Edward’s and the sheer bloody eventfulness of Mary’s, once Elizabeth came to the throne, all was peace and light; we had a Queen who was also tolerant, respectful and wise:

I would not open windows into men’s souls1

But Elizabeth was a queen who tortured heretics to death in public. What she meant by this supposed espousal of toleration is “she did not care what people understood by the formularies of the Church of England; only that they would assent to them.”2

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This is part of a series of posts. Others in the series are:—
  1. Anglican Roots / Anglican Routes
  2. Anglican Roots : Four justifications for the exercise
  3. Anglican Roots : 664 The Synod of Whitby
  4. Anglican Roots : 1215 Magna Carta
  5. Anglican Roots : Movement 1 / The Benedictines
  6. Anglican Roots : Inheritance 1
  7. Anglican Roots : The Reformation
  8. Anglican Roots : 1534 Henry, Supreme Head
  9. Anglican Roots : 1593 Richard Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity
  10. Anglican Roots : Movement 2
  11. Anglican Roots : Inheritance 2
  12. Anglican Roots : 1604 The Hampton Court Conference
  13. Anglican Roots : 1662 The Act of Uniformity and the Book of Common Prayer
  14. Anglican Roots : Movement 3
  15. Anglican Roots : Inheritance 3
  16. Anglican Roots : 1784 Samuel Seabury consecrated first American bishop
  17. Anglican Roots : 1888 The Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral
  18. Anglican Roots : Movement 4
  19. Anglican Roots : Inheritance 4

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  1. Oral tradition only. The earliest written record of this espousal of toleration is in J. B. Black’s The Reign of Elizabeth 1558–1603 (1936), p. 19. [↩]
  2. Andrew Brown, ‘Shuttered windows to the soul’, The Guardian : Comment is Free website [↩]

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