http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/09/01/3307437.htm
Are Sydney Anglicans actually Anglicans?
ABC Religion and Ethics 1 Sep 2011
A view of Anglicanism that places Scripture as supreme
authority and has a flexible attitude to secondary matters (like vestments)
certainly has a good case to be considered as authentically Anglican.
Are Sydney Anglicans actually Anglicans? If an Anglican from
another part of Australia, or from the United Kingdom, walked into an ordinary
Sydney Anglican parish on a Sunday morning would they recognise what they saw as
being Anglican?
The building may have a shape that echoes the distinctive shape of countless
English parish churches. You are, however, unlikely to find a robed or collared
clergyman leading the service - unless you come perhaps to the early morning
service. While the structure and outline of the prayer book service will be in
evidence, it will be used flexibly. The music will most likely be modern in
style and the words projected on a large screen. The pipe organ and the pulpit
will not be used. The prayers may well be ex tempore.
For Melbourne journalist Muriel
Porter, there is no way in which what I have just described could be called
"Anglican." Her notion of Anglicanism relates to a particular liturgical style.
Without this particular style, in their mind there is no Anglican identity.For more, see:
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