Wishing Happy Christmas 'Could Be An Obscenity' Warns Bishop [Time For Anglicans To Quit]

Telegraph(UK) ^ | November 28th 2009

[TaxRelief]

Nor is it “autonomous”...

[RonF]

They seem autonomous to me. None of the members of the Anglican Communion seem particularly responsible to either each other or to a central authority. There is no central authority that can set rules for any of the members. How do you think that “autonomous” is not an appropriate descriptor?

[The Grammarian]

"The Anglican Communion is an international association of national Anglican churches. There is no single "Anglican Church" with universal juridical authority as each national or regional church has full autonomy"--Wikipedia, "Anglican Communion"

See also here.

[TaxRelief]

Quoting wikipedia is like quoting my tech-savvy teen. Pointless.

[The Grammarian]

Actually, as any librarian will tell you, Wikipedia is an acceptable start to any research. It's not an acceptable finish, though.

Hence why I quoted anglican.org as well. Which you ignored.

[TaxRelief]

What religion are you? I want to explain this from your prospective.

[The Grammarian]

What religion are you? I want to explain this from your prospective.

It's in my profile. I'm Christian, and one of the "people called Methodist"--whose founder was an Anglican priest, I might add.

If you're going to tell me that the Anglican Communion is not autonomous because each individual national church answers to the Lord Jesus, that's really more an eschatological statement--and we're talking church polity here.