A look back: What's a Protestant? Time article on 1964 General Convention

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I was doing a Google search for something to get ready for an upcoming inquirers class when the following article from Time Magazine’s web site caught my attention:

Are Episcopalians Protestants? Yes, say Low Church evangelicals; no, answer High Church Anglo-Catholics. Last week delegates to the Episcopal General Convention in St. Louis tried to resolve this debate over what’s in a name with a typically Anglican compromise: letting each faction in the church decide for itself what it wants to be called.

{read it all, it’s interesting}

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  • http://www.confessingtiger.blogspot.com SC Dave+

    Almost daily people have been asking me if I have heard “What the Pope said”. I told them that I was happy to hear that he had clarity about who he was as a Catholic and who the Protestants are in relationship to the Roman Church. He’s wrong of course, but I’m a Protestant and he’s a Catholic and the line is clearly drawn. It sent me back to the 95 theses again… a breath of fresh Protestant air.

  • http://adamantius.net Jody+

    Dave,

    I agree. I appreciate the clarity, and it helps to know what we disagree on as well as where we’re playing for the same team. I wasn’t offended at all by the Roman Church’s comments about “ecclesial communities”, after all, if I thought the Roman Church were better, I’d be a Roman Catholic.

  • Adam

    It’s interesting and funny to read that article. I’ve been saying since I joined St. Francis that I’m catholic and protestant. Very Anglican of me, eh? And yet it’s true, for me at least.

    The struggle over civil rights at GC was also very interesting to read about.

  • http://adamantius.net Jody+

    Adam,

    Yes, the struggle over Civil Rights was very interesting to read about… it gives some perspective too in regards to the number of conflicts and struggles the Church (as a whole, not just the Episcopal Church) has been through over the centuries.