It should also be forward-looking. It should not feel trapped in doctrines and official statements inherited from the past.
"I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at[a] His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."
2 Timothy 4:1-5 (NKJV)
This is a very odd view to be espoused by a Christian. What the author describes is no church at all; its a sort of hierarchal, liturgical debating society at best. While reading this I kept thinking of Goebbles "Greater Lie" theory of political propaganda. I do hope that this gets a very wide dissemination among the Episcopalians in America and among Anglicans worldwide as it will put the lie to anything approaching customary Anglican "muddling through" in dealing with the present problem. Compromise with this mentality means that Anglicanism becomes a worldwide joke. The disgust has started already; the sniggering can't be far behind. That may not make much difference in Europe and North American, but in Africa, South Asia and the Middle East it could mean a lot of dead, innocent people.