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To: The_Reader_David; sionnsar

"This on the one hand explains the easy transition Anglicans have when the Spirit leads them to embrace Holy Orthodoxy, and on the other the special attention the Evil One seems to have given to seducing Anglicanism in the US, Britain and 'white Commonwealth' into not merely heresy, but full-scale apostacy from the Apostolic Faith."

By the latter half of your comment, do you mean that the closeness of Anglicanism to Orthodoxy which facilitates the evident easy transition from the one to the other, poses in some manner the sort of challenge or attraction to the Evil One that, say, a holy monastery or strong parish does?


5,919 posted on 01/14/2007 2:12:38 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis

To some degree. The other confessions that arose at the time of the 'reformation' stayed further from the Apostolic Faith than had the Latins from whom they split. Anglicanism posed a challenge to the Evil One because, while one pole of it was most definitely protestant, tending to pull it further from the Faith, Anglicanism had that other pole that, rightly or wrongly, regarded the Church of England as national expression of the One Catholic and Apostolic Church in the way local Orthodox churches are, and at times strove to make this self-understanding justifiable, at times seemed to have a nearly Orthodox phrenoma--something none of the other 'reformation' confessions had.

Certainly in the last century, making sure that the orthodox wing of Anglicanism didn't gain control seems to have been one of the Evil One's little projects (obviously less important to his malign designs than smashing Holy Russia, but on the agenda nonetheless).


5,928 posted on 01/14/2007 7:18:30 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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