tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post143925544428038829..comments2024-02-15T03:32:25.686-05:00Comments on Preludium, Anglican and Episcopal futures: The Episcopal Church in Haiti: Stretching towards a new future. Mark Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06871096746243771489noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-2771431954101537272019-09-15T07:38:01.803-04:002019-09-15T07:38:01.803-04:00Deanglicanize so that the liturgy and theology nee...Deanglicanize so that the liturgy and theology need not be “Anglican”? Maybe this is badly worded, but I’d be surprised if Haitian Episcopalians are as attracted as the US archdeacon to getting rid of prayer-book theology and liturgy. Both the theology and the liturgy that authoritatively expresses it are of the esse of the Anglican Communion. Beyond those two, so many things can be different! Look up the Zairean use of the Roman Rite in the RCC for a good example.<br /><br />The Book of Common Prayer is not a bit of Elizabethan or Victorian nostalgia. It’s our best effort to continue the essential traditions of the church universal, to embody the faith and practice of the Christian church of the first five centuries. Leave it behind, and we quickly have no Anglican “tenants” (or rather tenets” to offer the world.<br /><br />Again, listen to the Church in Haiti. If you want to root out colonialism, start with the colonialist projection that THEY want to or should ditch the theology and liturgy of Hooker and Cranmer.The Rusticated Classicisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09199588427470511686noreply@blogger.com