Anglicans Ablaze: Exploding the Myth of the Anglican ‘Via Media’

Anglicans Ablaze: Exploding the Myth of the Anglican ‘Via Media’

Exploding the Myth of the Anglican ‘Via Media’ by Robin Jordan, an uncommonly good writer on Anglicanism.

The doctrine of the post-Reformation Church of England puts it squarely in the Reformed camp with Geneva. The Edwardian and Elizabethan Reformers saw the post-Reformation English Church as a Reformed Church like the French and Swiss Reformed Churches. The continental Reformers, in turn, recognized the Church of England as a Reformed Church. The main differences between the Church of England and the Church of Geneva were “the shape of the Church-State link and the acceptance of episcopacy.”